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Lifestyle Changes Lesson Plan
by Lara Steele

This page contains, ready to go, all the background information you need to teach the Lifestyle Changes Lesson, including overheads, handouts, quizzes, and evaluation materials. You will need a printer, pens, pencils, transparencies, and other 'normal' classroom supplies. Please feel free to use the provided materials, share them, reproduce them, but make sure TerraX.org receives credit.

Objectives

• The student will be able to state the main idea of a story.
• The student will be able to define oil lamp, gramophone, and an old fashioned cooler.
• The student will be able to explain why one hundred years ago life was different.
• The student will be able to describe how life was different a century ago.
• The student will be able to discuss activities that could and could not have been done a century ago.
• The student will be able to work in a group to create a skit.
• The student will be able to perform in a skit in front of a small audience.

Materials

• Information sheet on Eric Abraham
• Story
• Chalk board and chalk or overhead and overhead markers
• Lifestyles worksheet
• Lifestyles worksheet answer key
• Grading rubric
• Handout for the skit (two for every four or five students)

Outline

Day one:

1. Familiarize yourself with the information provided about Eric Abraham.
2. Start class by reading the story provided and then asking the questions at the bottom of the story, allow some time for feed back.
3. Brainstorm thoughts on what it must have been like 100 years ago in Australia.   Write the students answers on the board or the overhead.  Prompt the students with suggestions that they think about entertainment, food, water, communication, transportation, and education.
4. Pass out the information sheet on Eric Abraham and the Lifestyles worksheet.
5. Have the students read it to themselves and answer the questions on the worksheet.
6. Have students exchange papers and grade them with you.
7. For homework assign a one page essay on why they would or would not have liked living 100 years ago.  Ask them for examples.

Day Two:

1. Give a brief introduction reminding them of the topic for the day.
2. Read the skit assignment.
3. Separate the class into groups of four or five students for the skit.
4. Let them work on the assignment.  It will be helpful if you assign portions of the class period for each part of the skit.  (i.e. First 10 minutes of class to brainstorming, next 15 minutes to outline, next 10 minutes to polish and rewrite outline, rest of period to practice.)

Day Three:

1. Have the students hand in their outlines before they perform the skit.
2. Use the grading rubric to help you evaluate their performance.
3. Conclude by asking for questions and comments about students skits.

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