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Concept Attainment Democracy Lesson • 5th Grade Level. Becky Dougherty • Catherine Li Valerie Mighetto • Karen Nelson. Introduction. The Concept Attainment model is an instructional method that teaches students concepts by using pattern recognition and categorizing skills.
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Concept AttainmentDemocracy Lesson • 5th Grade Level Becky Dougherty • Catherine Li Valerie Mighetto • Karen Nelson
Introduction • The Concept Attainment model is an instructional method that teaches students concepts by using pattern recognition and categorizing skills. • By learning this skill students are able to deductively apply the concept in new situations
Instructor preparation • Identify a significant concept to the students. • Convey the characteristics of the concept to the students. • Present the students with positive and negative examples to illustrate the concept. • Ask the students to define the concept. • Coach the students to articulate the reasoning skills they used. • Ask the students for examples of the concept to demonstrate their new knowledge.
Context • Elementary school • 5th grade students • Social Studies focusing on American government
Concept • Democracy
+ Ted’s class will vote to decide who will be on student council. Every student in his class gets to vote. Those students with most votes will be on student council.
- Bill is the leader of a group of boys. He is the boss. No one dares to question his decisions. He has two friends who are “bodyguards” and they enforce his decisions.
+ In Ms. Hansen’s class, the students worked together to come up with class rules.
- In Mr. Hansen’s class, he made all the rules, and he decided that all students with blue eyes must sit on the floor.
+ The mayor and officials of a city were elected by the citizens of that city.
- The mayor of a city is assigned by the governor of the state.
+ The citizens of the city vote to make decisions about city planning. For example, the citizens of Davis were able to vote whether or not they wanted a Target store in their town.
- The city officials made the decision to paint all the houses in this city pink without asking the opinion of the people living in that city.
+ In the USA, every citizen, in good standing, regardless of race or ethnicity has the right to vote.
-In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh was the supreme ruler, and his word was law.
+ In the USA, people elect a new president every four years.
- In ancient Egypt, when the old Pharaoh died, his son became the new Pharaoh and so on.
The students begin to understand the concept • The exemplars become more complex in the second part of the lesson. • Additional exemplars will test and confirm the concept hypothesis
+ Margaret Thatcher was elected to serve as British Prime Minister.
- Under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, girls and women could not attend school.
+ Salvador is class president. He was nominated by his best friend, but the majority of the class voted for him.
+ People can express their political views through newspapers, television, and other public media. For example, you can say “I strongly oppose the recent action taken by Bush government....”
- The news is controlled by the government. People are not allowed to discuss their own ideas or views in newspapers, television, or any other public way.
- In 1960, many people of the Christian faith in China were put in jail because of their religion.
- The American colonies were ruled by England.
+ The people of ancient Athens developed a system of government that elected officials by lot and decisions were made by majority rules.
+ The county supervisors defeated the proposal to build a new stadium downtown.
- After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote, but American women were not granted the same right until 1920.
Assessment and evaluation • Ask the students to define the concept of democracy • Have the students develop their own exemplars. • Can they articulate the reasoning skills that they used to learn the concept? • Ask the students to suggest other concepts that can be identified with this method.
Concept and rule Concept: Democracy Rule: Democracy means “rule by the people”
Critical attributes • People have the right to vote • All people are considered equal • There is respect for individual rights and freedoms
References • Pritchard, P. D., Florence Fay (1994). "Teaching Thinking Across the Curriculum with the Concept Attainment Model." 20. • Todd Twyman, Jennifer McCleery., Gerald Tindal (2006). "Using Concepts to Frame History Content." The Journal of Experiment Education 74(4): 331-349. • Johnson, J., Carlson, Susan (1992). "Developing conceptual thinking: The concept attainment model." Clearing House 66(2): 117-121.