HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY
Daily Lesson Plan Template
Demographic Information
Student’s Name: Elizabeth Wolford & Melanie Dubner
Cooperating Teacher’s Approval: Christine Sylvester
Subject: Social Studies
Allocated Time: 1 hour
Date: 2/13/2014
Topic: Why & How Immigrants Come to
the United States
Grade: 3rd
Student Population: 23 students; 10 boys & 13 girls
State Standards and/or District Requirements
State Standards
Specific Number 8.3.3.D
Exact Wording Identify and describe how conflict and
cooperation among groups and organization have impacted the
history and development of the US.
 Ethnicity and race
 Working conditions
 Immigration
 Military conflict
 Economic stability
District core curriculum, benchmarks or standards if required by the district.
Specific Number
Exact Wording
Instructional Elements
Goal for Understanding Students will identify why and how immigrants come to the United States.
Instructional Objective Statement Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of why and how people
become part of our country.
Student Behaviors
Sources of Evidence
Criteria for Evaluation
 Students will converse during
 Appropriate discussion about the
 Students will make a
Think-Pair-Share.
topic given to the pair to discuss.
connection with how it feels
to start somewhere new.
 Students will watch video
 Students will be actively
 Students will use the
about a young immigrant.
engaged in what the child is
information given in the
saying.
video for their group work or
exit ticket.
 Students will work in a group
 A list will be shared with the
 The list that was generated
to complete a list.
class to discuss.
will have appropriate
responses, including ones that
we had previously talked
about.
 Students will use the
 The scores of each student’s
 The students will correctly
Socrative App to complete
Socrative quiz will be delivered
answer the questions on
questions about the topic.
to the teacher.
Socrative.
Teaching to the Objective 
Estimated Time
Teaching to the Objective
Introduction/Motivation/Prior
Knowledge:
Differentiation
(Required for Each Section)

5 minutes

10 minutes

9 minutes

15 minutes

13 minutes

8 minutes
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The students will engage in a
Think-Pair-Share to discuss how
they felt when they went
somewhere new.
 The teacher will introduce key
vocabulary: immigrants,
discriminate, migrant workers
Developmental Activities:

The teacher will read Coming to
America
 The students will watch a video,
Meet Young Immigrants, to
learn about a child their age,
who has recently come to
America.
 The students will be broken up
into groups and receive a job,
which could be recorder,
timekeeper, spell checker,
reporter or elaborator. Each
group will come up with a list of
why someone would leave his or
her home and go to a new
country.
 The class will come together and
share their lists, making one big
list for the whole class.
Assessment:
 Students will be assessed on
appropriate conversation during
Think-Pair-Share.
 Students will be assessed on
working cooperatively in a group
to achieve a successful list of
reasons someone would leave
their country.
 The students will be assessed on
answering the closure questions
on Socrative correctly.
Closure:
 Students will use the Socrative
app to answer questions
pertaining to the lesson.

Students will work with a
partner to exchange ideas.

Students will have a visual
connection with the
information being discussed
Students will have a visual
connection through the use of
technology.


Students will have the
opportunity to work in a
group with peers of mixed
levels.

Students will be working in
pairs and small groups.

Students will be allowed to
work in a setting they find
comfortable, if necessary.
Follow-up: Students will be asked to being in five items in a paper bag that they would want to bring with them to a new
country to be used in an activity the next day.
Materials: Coming to America, SMARTBoard, computers, paper, pencils, erasers, exit tickets, vocabulary cards, iPads,
Socrative app
Resources: scholastic.com, kellyfjohnson.wordpress.com, flashcardmachine.com
References:
Flash Card Machine, LLC. (2015). Flashcard Machine. Retrieved from http://www.flashcardmachine.com/my-flashcards/
Johnson, Kelly. (2012). Lesson Plan: Introduction to Immigration Retrieved from
https://kellyfjohnson.wordpress.com/public-history-work/lesson-plan-introduction-toimmigration-3rd-grade/
Maestro, Betsy. (1996). Coming to America: The Story of Immigration. Scholastic Press.
Scholastic, Inc. (2015). Meet Young Immigrants. Retrieved from
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/young_immigrants/
Socrative. (2011). Socrative, Inc. (Version 2.0) [Mobile application software. Retrieved from http://itunes.apple.com
Technology: SMARTBoard, iPads and computer