EDG4376 Constructivist Lesson Plan

Paulin Rios

Fifth Grade

 Career opportunities

The student will watch a film about different occupations people have and the kinds of services or goods they produce in society: "We all Contribute and Make a Difference".  Each individual has a responsabiliy in society. Even young children have certain resposabilites and occupations that they have to perform at home, school, and society. Since early age young children learn and differentiate what they like and what they do not like. With time, young children start focusing in activities that they like the most that can help others.

The film "We all Contribute and Make a Difference" gives the students an idea of what they might want to be when they get older. Also, it provides samples about the different roles that people have in society. The film make them realize of the importance of each individual and how each one of us can make a difference and cooperate with the development of society.

The students will engage in a variety of researches about career choices in different web pages that the teacher will assign, in books, magazins, or asking other people about careers. The students will recognize different job opportunities available for them and understant that these different jobs require specific interests, abilities, training, and skills. 

The teacher will ask the following question to make the students think about career choice:

 Why it is important to have a different occupation in our society?

 What are the differences between different jobs?

 How will you be able to help others by your career choice?

 How your future career choice will contribute to society?

The students will work in groups of of five. There will be four groups for a total of 20 students. The groups will be created randomly. The students will have to sit in their respective chairs and the teacher will ask the first child on the right line to start counting from one, the students will have to stop in number four and start counting again form one untill each of the students will have a number. After all the students have a number, the teacher will start callig number 1 and get the students together as a group. The teacher will continue calling the rest of the numbers to form groups 2, 3, and 4. After this, the teacher will assign to each group a field career as follows: group 1: Business careers, group 2: Health careers, group 3: education careers, and group 4: service careers. Once every group has a topic, the teacher will ask the students to choose a team leader. The team leader should be selected by voting. Also, the teacher will ask the students to divided their work so this way each member of the group wil have a job to do.

Group 1:

The students will make a poster board to show information in the Bussiness careers

The teacher will give a guide sheet with the following questions/prompts for them to include in their poster board:

Whatare some of the occupations in this field?

What are some of the personal interests, abilities or estrengths that can be related to this field?

Describe one occupation in detail.

What are the pros snd cons of this particular occupation?

Group 2:

The students will have to do flip cards describing one occupation in the health field.

The teacher will give a guide sheet with the following questions/prompts for them to include in their flip cards: 

What is the legth of the career?

What are the responsabilities in this career?

Do I need any experience to start working?

What will it be the salary?

What are the pros and cons of this career?

Group 3:

The students will have to do a power point presentation showing deails of the education career.

The teacher will give a guide sheet with the following questions/prompts for them to include in their flip cards: 

Whatare some of the occupations in this field?

Provide some pictures of the different occupations in this field.

Describe one career that this field offers

What is the length of this career?

What is the career purpose?

What are the working conditions?

What is the future outlook?

Group 4:

The students will have to present a concept map with basic explanations about the service career they choose.

The teacher will give a guide sheet with the following questions/prompts for them to include in their flip cards: 

What are some of the occupations in this field?

Which one of this careers do you think is the fastest growing occupation?

Why do you think this career is the growing occupation?

What would it be the approximatly time to finish this career?

How will you see yourself if you were to choose this career for your future?

The bridge will take place before the film is presented. The students were assigned to interview their mom, dad, relative, friend, neighbor, or whoever they would like about their occupation last class. All the students will be engage in a class discussion about the different occupations and they will have to provide ideas or comments about the different jobs.

The teacher will ask:

Why were you interested in interviewing that person?

What do you think about that particular occupation?

How do you think this person is helping others?

What skills do you think a person needs in this career?

What are some of the different jobs the students mentioned?

Why it is important to have a different occupation in our society?

What are the differences between different jobs?

How will you be able to help others by your career choice?

How your future career choice will contribute to society?

Whatare some of the occupations in this field?

What are some of the personal interests, abilities or estrengths that can be related to this field?

Describe one occupation in detail.

What are the pros snd cons of this particular occupation?

What is the legth of the career?

What are the responsabilities in this career?

Do I need any experience to start working?

What will it be the salary?

What are the pros and cons of this career?

Whatare some of the occupations in this field?

Provide some pictures of the different occupations in this field.

Describe one career that this field offers

What is the length of this career?

What is the career purpose?

What are the working conditions?

What is the future outlook?

What are some of the occupations in this field?

Which one of this careers do you think is the fastest growing occupation?

Why do you think this career is the growing occupation?

What would it be the approximatly time to finish this career?

How will you see yourself if you were to choose this career for your future?

 Why were you interested in interviewing that person?

What do you think about that particular occupation?

How do you think this person is helping others?

What skills do you think a person needs in this career?

What are some of the different jobs the students mentioned?

Each group will present the given assignment and they will present it in front of the class. All of the group members are expected to talk and actively participate in the presentation.

Group1: will present the poster board and will show information about business careers. All members are expected to talk.

Group 2: will present the flip cards describing one occupation in the health field.

Group 3: will present the power point presentation showing details of the education career. All the students will present in front of the class. 

Group 4: will present the concepth map with explanations about the services career they choose.

The students will create an essay that includes one career that they like the most from all the presentations. The essay should include the folowing:

What career you like the most and why?

What makes you think that you will fit in this career or why not?

What did you learned refering to career chooices?

What is it helpful the information you obtain from this activity?

What goods and services does the career that you choose provide?

What special skills would you have to develop to perform in this particular field?

Were there other careers you might be interested in that it was not mention in the activity? If so which one? and why you would choose that career?

Why do you think each person should have a career or job in society?

Group Project Grading Rubric

Name _____________________________                                                                              Date of Evaluation:  _________________

Evaluate the group as a unit with this section of the evaluation tool. Write the score in the score box.

Category	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Group Cooperation	We did most of the work by ourselves, we talked a little among our group members	We worked together most of the time, sharing information regularly	We worked together so that everyone contributed to the final project	Everyone worked together using his or her abilities and knowledge to make the project come together
Distribution of Group Tasks	Some group members did not complete any of the work	Everyone had a job to do but some jobs were incomplete	We divided up and completed the work equally	Work was shared fairly according to the abilities and interests of the members
Group Leadership	We had no leader so we just did our own thing	No one person was a leader so we usually helped each other get the job done	One or more persons took a leadership role and gave good directions that kept us going	We had a leader who helped us organize and stay on task until the job was complete
Communication among group members	We only talked when we thought we needed to, but received little feedback	We talked about what we were doing	We usually asked each other for help and showed our work to each other	We talked all the time and shared our work for group feedback
Individual Participation	A few people tried very hard, but most didn’t do much	Each person did some work and tried to do a fair share	We all seemed to find our place and do what was needed	Everyone did a great job, I would work with these people again
Listening to other points of view	We usually listened to  what others were saying but some either did not share ideas or argued	We usually listened to each other and tried to use what they said in the project	We listened while others talked, we learned about different viewpoints, and used some of that information in the project	Everyone listened to each other a lot, and used what we heard to improve our work and the whole project
Showing respect	No one was courteous and opinions were not valued	Some were courteous and some opinions were valued	Most were courteous and most opinions were valued	All were courteous and valued each other’s opinions

Poster board Rubric

Category	4	3	2	1	Points
Required elements	The poster includes all required elements and additional information too.	all required elements are included on the poster	All but one required elements are included on the poster	Several required elements were missing
Content	At least 5 accurate facts are presented on the poster	4-3 accurate facts are presented on the poster	2 accurate facts are presented on the poster	No accurate facts are presented on the poster
Mechanics	Spelling, capitalization are correct throughout the poster	There is one error in spelling or capitalization	There are 2 errors in spelling or capitalization	There are more than 2 errors in spelling or capitalization
Attractiveness	The poster is catchy in terms of design,  layout, and neatness	The poster is somewhat catchy in terms of design, layout, and neatness	The poster is acceptable catchy but still lack some quality on the design, layout and neatness	The poster is not catchy, lack of design, layout and neatness
Total points

Flip Cards Rubric

Category	4	3	2	1	Points
Required elements	The poster includes all required elements and additional information too.	all required elements are included on the poster	All but one required elements are included on the poster	Several required elements were missing
Content	At least 5 accurate facts are presented on the poster	4-3 accurate facts are presented on the poster	2 accurate facts are presented on the poster	No accurate facts are presented on the poster
Mechanics	Spelling, capitalization are correct throughout the poster	There is one error in spelling or capitalization	There are 2 errors in spelling or capitalization	There are more than 2 errors in spelling or capitalization
Attractiveness	The poster is catchy in terms of design,  layout, and neatness	The poster is somewhat catchy in terms of design, layout, and neatness	The poster is acceptable catchy but still lack some quality on the design, layout and neatness	The poster is not catchy, lack of design, layout and neatness
Total points

Power Point Presentation Rubric

Area	very good   6 points	Proficient     4 points	Partially proficient     2 points	Incomplete 0 points	Points
Content	The content is written clearly and concisely with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information.	The content is written with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information.	The content is vague in conveying a point of view and does not create a strong sense of purpose.	The content lacks a clear point of view and logical sequence of information.
Text Fonts	The fonts are easy-to-read and point size varies appropriately for headings and text.	Sometimes the fonts are easy-to-read, but in a few places the use of fonts, italics, color or busy background detracts and does not enhance readability.	Overall readability is difficult with lengthy paragraphs, too many different fonts, dark or busy background, overuse of bold or lack of appropriate indentations of text.	The text is extremely difficult to read with long blocks of text and small point size of fonts, inappropriate contrasting colors, poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting.
Layout	The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings and white space.	The layout uses horizontal and vertical white space appropriately.	The layout shows some structure, but appears cluttered and busy or distracting or uses a distracting background.	The layout is cluttered, confusing, and does not use spacing, headings and subheadings to enhance the readability.
Graphics, sound, and animation	The graphics, sound and/or animation assist in presenting an overall theme and enhance understanding of concept. It shows original ideas	The graphics, sound/and or animation visually depict material and assist the audience in understanding the concept. It shows	Some of the graphics, sounds, and/or animations seem unrelated to the topic/theme and do not enhance the concept.	The graphics sounds, and/or animations are unrelated to the content.

Concept map Rubric

Area	3 Evident all aspects addressed	2 Evident but lacking minor aspects	1 Evident but lacking major aspects	0 Not evident	Score
Concept	Concept relationships are valid  (links make sense)	Concepts relationships are somehow valid	Concepts relationships lack validity	Concepts relationships are not valid at all
Information	Concepts are depicted from general to specific.	Concepts are depicted somehow from general to specific	Concepts lack information from genral to specific	Concepts are not depicted from general to specific
Attractiveness	Map is clear, legible, and focused.	Map is somehow clear, legible, and focused	Map lack the focus, clearness, and legibility	Map does not present good clearness, legibility, nor focus
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