Upper Key Stage 2 LESSON PLAN
Use Beyond the Book as a flexible lesson guide with a variety of options from which to choose based on your pupil's interests and ability levels.
Beyond the Book…provides ideas for educators to incorporate character development into the daily classroom curriculum. Activity and learning ideas are given for Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies/History and Art.
Science History Maths Art
Beyond the Book…provides educators with a range of open-ended questions aimed at helping pupils share and listen to create meaningful connections to character traits and enhance critical thinking, speaking and listening skills through facilitated guided discussion.
Speaking & Listening
Social & Emotional Learning
Beyond the Book…provides educators with a range of specific reading skill activities aligned with literacy standards to create meaningful connections to character traits and enhance critical thinking, reading, writing, and research skills through various learning activities.
Reading Writing Research
Beyond the Book…provides educators with a menu of engaging activities for primary school pupils with different preferences for learning and communicating information. These activities can be easily modified or adapted for children of many ages, maturity levels and academic ability levels.
Differentiation
Beyond the Book…provides teachers with learning activities and discussion prompts for pupils to share with their parents and guardians at home to reinforce character traits, promote positive family interactions, and to provide ways to keep parents and guardians connected to the classroom.
Home Connection Activity
The intent of this story is to show children the following truths:
Respect is treating yourself and others with dignity and honour. Honouring the rules of our families, schools, and communities is showing respect. Recycling, reducing, and reusing are all ways we can respect the Planet.
Basic Story Vocabulary
respect rally honour dignity various differences courtesy climates regions beliefs customs recycle reduce reuse reproduced revised resources mechanical
Definition and Example and Compare and Contrast
Define one concept introduced and explained in the story. Give an example from the story of the idea, as well as two examples of your own.
Compare and contrast the points of view of the characters in the story related to caring for the earth and your point of view of caring for the planet.
General Comprehension Activities
Retell or illustrate 5 – 10 events of the story in the order in which they occurred. Include the moral of the story. Add written summaries of the events.
Compare and contrast different forms of recycling (Reduce, reuse, recycle, reprocess, and rework). Use other informational sources to gather additional information about various forms of recycling. Use written details and illustrations in a graphic organiser of your own design to show and share your knowledge.
Create a comic strip or digital poster illustrating what Cayee learned in the story and how she put that into practice. Add written summaries explaining the comic strips and posters.
Tetsuo the Turtle explains to Cayee that even though people may look different and have different beliefs, it is important to treat them respectfully. Why?
We all share the planet. Tell one way you can show respect for it today.
How did Cayee show two kinds of respect when she asked another pupil to help her get kids to recycle?
We show respect when we honour the rules of our family, school, and community. Why are rules created?
Behaving politely is a way to show respect. Talk about how someone behaved politely towards you today. How did it feel?
Writing Prompts
Explain your school or classroom recycling policy in writing a letter or email to a new pupil.
Tetsuo gave a respectful speech at the rally. Write your 4R speech for the rally.
Explain three ways you can respect your classmates at school.
Write an article to persuade someone to respect the earth and its resources.
Write a letter to your congress representative to persuade them to investigate recycling as a law with stronger penalties when people do not abide by it.
Facilitated Discussion Prompts
Make Respect one of the school behaviour expectations and promote its meaning around the school. Create a set of specific respectful behaviours for each setting within the school and place them on posters to help other pupils understand the meaning of respect throughout the school day.
There are many positive role models of people who have shown respect in their lives. Research a famous person who has displayed respect for others in their life. Create a presentation for the class about this person and what they did and how it has positively impacted others.
People often have rallies to demonstrate their strong feelings about laws and policies. Sometimes rallies lead to positive changes in these laws. Research famous rallies in history that eventually led to changes in laws. Choose one of them to introduce and explain to the class using some form of technology.
Before Tetsuo the Turtle taught Cayee about respect, she showed care for him. How? Discuss. Help pupils brainstorm ways to show respect for each other in school and in the community. Make a list.
At the Respect Rally, the animals talked about the importance of recycling. Some pay money for the return of glass bottles to be recycled. Bring in examples and discuss the different money values. Pupils can work in small groups to create maths problems and figure out how many bottles they would need to earn enough money to buy a favourite game or toy.
How are cans and bottles recycled? Research how cans are recycled and have pupils draw and label a timeline of the process.
The U.S. have laws to show respect to protect endangered animals. As a class or in small groups, find out which animals are endangered and how specific laws protect them.
Create a 4R bulletin board. Under the headings Respect, Recycle, Reduce and Reuse, ask pupils to write examples or draw pictures to place under each word.
Create a 4R Club at your school. Log in the number of bottles, cans, and paper you recycle. Graph this data weekly and use the graph as a way to challenge more people to recycle.
Curriculum Connections
Work with a partner. On a piece of paper, place the word respect in the middle of a circle. Connect a circle for each area of respect mentioned in the Respect book (environment, self, others, property) and write those items within the circles. Add 3-5 examples of that kind of respect.
Think about what it means to be respectful while at school. Think about examples of what respect looks like at school. With a partner, role-play a scene that shows what respect at school looks like. Take a turn roleplaying your example for the class.
As a class, talk about committing to respecting the environment. Choose a partner. Develop five “I Will” statements or promises to show your commitment to showing respect for the environment. Create a commitment poster containing your statements to line the hallway of your school.
Think about an adult you respect. Write a few sentences to describe this person and why you have respect for them. Be specific and give examples that show why the person should be respected.
As a class, decide how you can improve the recycling habits of your school. Research some solutions in pairs. Decide on a plan and create signs to hang in classrooms to encourage recycling. Add messages to posters that include why it is important to recycle.
SEL Specific Activities
RESPECT Home Connection Activities
Work with your family to create a home recycling plan. Map out the plan with your family and share it with other teachers and pupils in your classroom.
Talk with your parents or guardian about ways to reuse and rework resources at home. Decide on a plan and then share that with another family or neighbour.
Discuss with your parents or guardians how respect should be shown at home. Decide on a list of respectful behaviours for use while in school.
Share with your parents or guardians the reasons why differences in people may or may not be accepted by some. Explain to them how it feels to be treated with respect and dignity.
Draw your favourite part of the Respect Rally and tell your parents or guardians about it.
WE CONNECTED! We _____________________________________________________________ and talked about____________________________________________________________ together. Our favourite part of the story was when ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________. I circled the house above of the activity we completed. Pupil Name:_______________________________________________ Date: __________ Parent/Guardian:_________________________________________ Date: ___________ Copyright © 2019 Cloud9World™ Corp. www.cloud9worlduk.com Cloud9World™ and all related titles, logos, and characters are registered trademarks of Cloud9World™ Corp. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by
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