Slide outline for Lesson 3.1. Eleven slides. Slide 1 is the ClassroomStreet Round 2 close and belongs to Unit 2; it runs for 10 minutes before the lesson starts. Sal fills in the standings before class.
ClassroomStreet Round 2: final standings
- Standings by merchant number [Sal: paste the leaderboard, no names]
- Three lines from Entry 10, "a sentence to my future self," read aloud (chosen with permission, no names)
- Unit 2 was about you. Unit 3 is about everybody, at every age
- Investor Journals go in the folder now
Teacher notes
Ten minutes and not one more. Read the three lines slowly. Then flip to slide 2 and start Unit 3.
Do now
- List every stage of a person's life you can think of, from birth to the end
- One word each
- How many did you get?
Teacher notes
Take the shortest list and the longest. Write the longest on the board. There are seven; most lists have four or five.
Seven stages
- Infancy: birth to about 1 (a crib)
- Early childhood: about 1 to 5 (a tricycle)
- Middle childhood: about 6 to 11 (a backpack)
- Adolescence: about 12 to 18 (a phone)
Teacher notes
Image: the four stage headers with the picture cue next to each, laid out left to right on a timeline.
Put the physical headers on the board as you say each one. Say "about" every time.
Seven stages, continued
- Young adulthood: about 19 to 39 (a work badge)
- Middle adulthood: about 40 to 64 (a house key)
- Older adulthood: 65 and up (a cane)
- The ranges are approximate. People are not on a schedule
Teacher notes
Image: the last three headers finishing the timeline.
Students copy all seven onto the sort sheet, Part 1.
Four things change at every stage
- Physical: the body (an arm)
- Emotional: the feelings (a heart)
- Social: the people (two figures)
- Intellectual: the thinking (a lightbulb)
Teacher notes
These four letters, P, E, S, I, go on every card in the sort. Students write them at the top of the sort sheet.
One stage, four changes: adolescence
- Physical: growth spurts, sleep clock shifts later
- Emotional: feelings get bigger and faster
- Social: friends matter more; family still matters
- Intellectual: the planning part of the brain is still building
Teacher notes
This is the model. Lesson 3.3 spends a whole period here. Keep it to one minute.
The timeline sort
- One set of 21 cards per team
- Read the card. Decide the stage. Put it under the header on your table
- Write the card number and the aspect letter (P, E, S, I) on your sort sheet
- Argue about the close calls. That is the point
- 10 minutes
Teacher notes
Image: a timer graphic and a photo described in words: three cards laid under a "Middle childhood" header on a table.
Circulate with the clipboard. Do not tell a team whether a card is right.
Close calls
- Card 8: the bike with no training wheels
- Card 15: the first job
- Card 13: the keys, the mail, and the photo on the fridge
- Same age is not the same stage
Teacher notes
Ask one team to bring its three hardest cards to the board timeline. Let the room vote. Then say why each one is a range.
What each stage needs
- A baby needs: ___ from the people around it
- An older adult needs: ___
- Build the list together, stage by stage
- Then: pick two stages, write the need, and one sentence on which is harder to meet
Teacher notes
Image: the seven headers again with a blank line under each for the board list.
Board list to aim for: safety and feeding; play and words; school and friends; independence and limits; work and partners; caring for others; care and respect. Any reasonable answer counts.
Exit card
- 3 stages in order with an age range
- 2 things that change in adolescence (one physical, one that is not)
- 1 stage you want to know more about
Teacher notes
Three students read their "1." Sort the cards before the next period.
Tomorrow
- Ages and stages of young children
- An egg, a napkin, and a question: does it still exist?
- Keep your sort sheet
Teacher notes
The card sets get used again in Lesson 3.4's review game. Collect and clip them.