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Unit Plan
Title:
Pirate Week
Introduction:
This unit is designed for first grade children who are both learning disabled and normally developing children. The content of this unit will be covered over a time period of five days. The class will focus on the unit for approximately three hours each day. However, the goal of this unit is for the children to use the knowledge (from the unit) and implement it in other academic areas.
Rational:
Many students are exposed to pirates somewhere in their childhood, so students will find this unit very exciting and interesting. Pirates explored new territories with maps skills, using stars, and with the use of a compass. Pirates’ objectives were to find valuable in the form of money and jewels. Pirates used large ships to sail around the world.
Behavioral Objectives
1. Language
1.1 Given the information on how to follow directions students will have a better understanding on how to stay safe.
1.2 Each day of the unit 5 new words will be added to the word wall.
2. Spelling
2.1 Given a fill in the blank worksheet, students will fill in the missing letter to complete the spelling word.
3. Art
3.1 Given the Ship Shape poster and construction paper, students will create a pirate ship using colored shapes.
3.2 Given the Ship Shape poster and construction paper, students will create a new work of art using colored shapes.
3.3 Given the map folder the students will draw a treasure map.
3.4 Given the homework map folder the students will draw a map of the school with the help of their parents.
3.5 Given construction paper and markers, students will decorate the math coins.
3.6 Given paper and crayons, students will draw five vocabulary words: ship, map, bird, pirate, flag
4. Handwriting
4.1 Given the Pirate KWL chart, students will write items they already know about Pirates and things they want to know about pirate.
4.2 Given the “Where am I Going” worksheet, students will write out directions for other students to follow.
4.3 Given the “Treasure Chest” worksheet, students will fill out coins with main character, favorite part, setting, and main ideas after reading a book.
5. Social Studies
5.1 Given the worksheet The Pirate-Know-How, students will complete the worksheet as the teacher instructs students about Pirate Life.
5.2 Given the KWL worksheet, students will fill it out to the best of the knowledge.
5.3 Given a compass and a treasure map, students will relate to how pirates navigated on their voyages.
6. Math
6.1 Given the SHIP SHAPE poster board, students will know the different shapes that compose a pirate ship.
6.2 Given paper pirate coins, students will use coins to solve single digit addition mathematical equations.
6.3 Given the “Addition Fishin” game, students will solve a single digit addition problem.
7. Listening
7.1 Throughout the course of the unit students will be exposed to different pirate music and how the ocean sounds like.
7.2 Students will listen to the questions on a true/false power point game: The Pirate Know How Game and answer questions orally.
7.3 Students will listen to directions while playing “Captain Hook Say’s”.
7.4 Students will listen to teacher’s directions and solve problems using coin manipulative.
7.5 Upon reading a pirate story, students will listen for details about islands.
8. Reading
8.1 Given several pirate themed books, students will read book and complete worksheet.
Student/ Teacher Bibliography:
· Books
o Kennedy, Kim. (2002). Pirate Pete
o Long, Melinda (2003). How I Became a Pirate
o Tucker, Kathy (1997). Do Pirates Take Baths?
o Wigington, Patti (2006). Pirate’s Alphabet
o Watt, Fiona (2007). That’s Not My Pirate
o Kennedy, Kim (2006). Pirate Pete’s Giant Adventure
o Jardine, Alan (2005). Sloop John B: A Pirates Tale
o Thompson, Julie (1996). A Pirate’s Life for Me
· Videos
o Peter Pan (1953). Walt Disney.
o “You are a Pirate” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI
· Websites
o http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/
o disney.go.com/pirates/online/
o www.surfnetkids.com/pirates.htm
o http://www.talklikeapirate.com/juniorpirates.html
Motivation/Initiation (Splash)
· Visualization Poster
· Pirate Vocabulary Transparency
· Pirate Themed Music
· Pirate Costumes
· “Let’s Read” Literature Center
· Ship Shape Poster
· Pirate Flag
· Peter Pan video
· Math Center- “Addition Fishin’”
· Treasure Chest model with coins for addition
· Map making folders
· Ship shape baggies
· Pirate word wall with Velcro words to add
Daily Plans:
Day 1: (Katrina)
Introduction:
The teacher will discuss the new posters, word wall, and centers (1.2)
Listening:
The students will be listening to a five minute pirate song from the PIRATES OF STUDENTS CD. (7.1)
Language:
The teacher will explain that his week we will be learning how similar and different the pirate culture is to ours. (none)
Handwriting and Social Studies:
The teacher will make a KWL chart in the front of the classroom. Students will individually come to the front of the classroom writing small sentences of words that they KNOW or WANT TO KNOW about pirates. The teacher will give out paper copies of a blank KWL chart so that students can fill in everything we write on the board. (4.1, 5.2)
Social Studies/Language:
Through the guided notes, the teacher will discuss the life of a pirate. Students will learn the dynamics of the different positions on a pirate ship. Students will learn what pirates do. We will play a True/False game to check for understand on a power point presentation. The students will get into three teams, where they will compete for the highest score. (7.2, 5.1)
Math/Art:
Students will learn what a semi-circle is by using the shape of a boat. During this lesson the teacher will review other shapes in reference to a pirate ship. Students will get to use shapes to construct a pirate ship and another work of art. (3.2, 3.1, 6.1)
Day 2: (Leighann)
Introduction:
The teacher will talk about graphing and show the students the purpose of following directions.
Art:
The teacher will show a map of the world and show where Pirates live and how they travel the oceans to look for treasure. The students will be given a treasure map folder and in groups they will have to make treasure maps with all the information they learned. The students will also go in a walk through the school and learn where all the important places are in the school that they need to know. The students will also make a map of the school for their own personal information. (3.3, 3.4)
Language:
The teacher will explain why it is very important to follow directions and what the different types of directions are. The students will have a better understanding of how to give directions to people if they need to go somewhere. Listening to directions will also show them, if they follow directions it will keep them safe. (1.1)
Language:
The four words that will be placed on the word wall: left, right, up, and down.
Listening:
Once the students have a good understanding of the different types of directions then the class will play “Captain Hook Says”. This will show the teacher if there is an area where the directions are unclear and need to be expanded on. (7.3)
Social Studies:
The teacher will explain that the Pirates used a compass and a treasure map to navigate around the oceans. The teacher will explain that it is the same as following directions on a daily basis and looking at a map to find your way around. (5.3)
Handwriting:
After a good understanding of following directions, the students will make up directions for classmates to move to a specific place in the room from their desk. (4.2)
Day 3: (Briana)
Mathematics
The teacher will instruct a lesson on how to add using the manipulative of “pirate coins.” The students will play the “Addition Fishing” game, and the students will use the manipulative will to show the addition problems on the fish. Next, the students will be given a worksheet to demonstrate what they learned in the math lesson. (6.2, 6.3)
Listening
The teacher will give directions on how to add by demonstrating several problems on the board. The students will be actively involved by following along using the math manipulatives then the students will learn how to use their own “pirate coins” as a manipulative. (7.4)
Art
The students will create 10 of their own pirate coins. They will be given a sheet of paper will 10 circles on it. The students will cut out the 10 circles then decorate them using crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc. (3.4)
Language
The students will learn four new words that will be placed on the word wall. The four words they will be learning are addition, coins, sum, and equals. (1.2)
Day 4: (Kady)
Introduction:
The teacher tells students that the purpose of today’s lesson will be to learn pirate vocabulary, explore pirate themed stories, and practice visualization skills. (no objective)
Listening:
Teacher will introduce several pirate themed books to the class and describe that we will be learning about visualization. Students will then be told to close their eyes and listen to the descriptions in the story about what the different islands might look like. Teacher will then read the book out loud to the students. Students will come up to the board and draw on the visualization poster of what they think the islands would look like. (7.5)
Reading:
During free reading time students will take out books from the Pirate literature center. After they are finished reading a book they will take a “Pirate Pete’s-Talk like A Pirate” worksheet from the center and write a sentence about their favorite part and draw a picture of their favorite part. (8.1)
Spelling:
Teacher will put a Pirate vocabulary transparency with vocabulary words and pictures. As a class, we will read out loud each word then spell out each word. Students will complete a homework worksheet to find the missing letters to complete the words. (2.1)
Language:
The five new pirate vocabulary words that we will be adding to the word wall are: map, bird, pirate, ship, and flag. (1.2)
Handwriting:
The students will be practicing hand writing by completing worksheet #2 with the treasure chest and coins on it. The teacher will put the same sheet up as an overhead and students will write the main character, key events, and their favorite part and where the story took place in the surrounding coins. The students will also be practicing handing by writing out the new vocabulary words in a sentence and drawing a picture to go along with the sentence. (4.3)
Art:
Students will be drawing pictures of the five vocabulary words: pirate, ship, bird, map, and flag. (3.6)
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