DAILY LESSON PLAN
Educator: Emma Clark Subject: Social Skills Date: January 2020
Objectives Random Acts of Kindness Prior Knowledge
Have students begin thinking deeper Kindness/being kind is a common
about acts of kindness and other Warm-Up word we use in the classroom, but I
people’s perspectives/emotions. Students will watch a short video of middle will go over what an “act of
schoolers doing acts of kindness and I will ask kindness” is during the warm up.
Essential Question students at the end to give me one example of Throughout the year they’ve
What are acts of kindness and why are an act of kindness they saw in the video. discussed how to be a friend and
they important? socialize in a positive way so
hopefully this can build off of that
Scope & Sequence Teach/Model
Sequence: This will be the first lesson
During the discussion portion, I will Curriculum Connections
use guiding questions to support Strand A: Communication/ Perspective
we do on kindness but will be tied into
students’ thinking/understanding Taking
previous/current lessons such as
process. After asking certain questions, Objective 2: Enhancing
building friendships, how to interact
I will also model my own thinking by Perspective Taking
positively with others, and thinking
explaining how I’ve felt when people
about how their actions make others
have shown me acts of kindness, what Strand B: Socialization
feel.
I feel after I perform an act of kindness Objective 1: “I can change how
Scope: For students to understand the
for others. This will also allow me to you think about me by changing my
importance of doing kind things for
provide examples from personal behavior”
others and how it can benefit them as
experience of what could be an act of - Objective 2: Identify ways to
well whether it be in feeling good
kindness both inside and outside of a make friends
about yourself that you helped
school setting.
someone, having people like you, and
making new friends.
Classwork Activities
1. I will introduce the topic for the day and ask if anyone can tell me what an act of kindness is or give an example. Then, I will
explain it in my own words and make sure there’s a clear understanding before starting the warm up.
2. For warm up, students will watch a video that demonstrates various acts of kindness that can take place in school. Afterwards, I
will ask the students about what kinds of acts they saw in the video, if they’ve seen any of them take place on this campus, or if
they can think of other acts they’ve seen. I will write the students answers on the board for visual support and for students to use
later in the lesson either for inspiration or so they can copy if they struggle with independent writing.
3. I will then continue that discussion by asking students why these acts are important. This section of the lesson will include me
prompting students to think about how they have felt when people showed them acts of kindness, how they themselves feel after
doing something nice, and where/when you can do an act of kindness (anywhere, anytime). This is where I will tie in how
we’ve been working on building friendships and interacting positively with each other and this is super important for that
because people who do kind acts for others are the kinds of friends that people want around them.
4. After our discussion, students will create 3 act of kindness goals for home and 3 act of kindness goals for school and write it on
the worksheet I’ve created. Once they finish, they will choose one school kindness goal out of the ones they’ve already listed
and write it on a “Kindness Challenge” slip of paper. These will be hung somewhere in the classroom so that, whenever I see
them actively achieving that goal, they get rewarded.
5. After collecting their papers and before transitioning to the next class, I will explain to them the WOW/Kudos papers that will
be given out when they have a truly above and beyond WOW moment of kindness either in our class or in their inclusion
classes like PE and art
Academic Support
Differentiation Strategies I will guide them throughout the discussion
- Use tickets to help with positive reinforcement and encourage students to stay engaged and verbally provide sentence stems for them
- Have examples of acts of kindness we saw written on the board for students to copy if when needed. Examples will be shown in the
needed video as well as discussed verbally and written
- Read the worksheet out loud and fill in my own worksheet as an example and way to on the board for visual support. They’re
model expectations completed kindness goal worksheet will be my
- Provide one-on-one support to students during the writing section who may need a tangible checking for understanding but I will
scribe, behavior support, or appear to need be struggling also be walking around and working with the
- Modified expectations for final product/grading purposes students throughout the independent work part
-The video I chose is just music in the background so that it is accessible for all students of the lesson.
