Metro School Lesson Plan

METRO SCHOOL LESSON PLAN

NAME: Janie Young DATE: 4-09-12 thru TIME: Per Schedule 4-13-12 Middle School, High School and CONTENT AREA: Exploring Home Living Skills (MS) Transition Classes Teen Living (HS) 70150800

NCSCOS GRADE LEVEL STANDARD : (From the NC Curriculum Extensions Document; include the actual numeric grade level) Exploring Home Living Skills (Middle School) EH04.01 Identify clothing items. EH05.01 Clean clothes. EH05.02 Store clothing appropriately. Teen Living (High School and Transition) HL06.01 Identify clothing items. HL07.01 Locate and read clothing care labels. HL07.02 Sort clothing for cleaning. HL07.03 Clean clothes. HL07.04 Store clothing appropriately.

GRADE LEVEL EXTENSION : (From the NC Curriculum Extensions Document)

OBJECTIVE: The student will be able to… Symbolic: Identify clothing items as clean or dirty. Sort out dirty clothes into 5 piles, each will be washed separately, dark clothes, light clothes, towels, light colored clothes, bright colored clothes, denim, or delicate apparel (whatever is appropriate). Choose which pile to wash first. Check all clothing and empty pens, money, papers, bill folds from pockets. Close zippers to prevent snagging. Watch Laundry wikihow video.

Early Symbolic: Use picture symbol sequence to sort clothing. Choose which pile to wash first. Check clothing and empty pockets. Close zippers. Watch Laundry wikihow video.

Pre-Symbolic: Demonstrate an awareness of clothing. Place dirty items into a laundry basket.

LINK S TO PRIOR LEARNING: The student can identify clothing items. The student can identify the washer and dryer. The student can identify various colors. The student can measure various amounts of liquids. The student can identify hot and cold. The student can load and unload the washer and dryer.

MATERIALS/TECHNOLOGIES NEEDED: Laundry Steps picture symbols “How To Do Laundry”, Smart Board, items for sorting, dark clothes, white clothes, towels, light colored clothes, bright colored clothes, denim, or delicate items, pens money, pencils, glasses, paper clips. Laundry detergent, bleach, stain remover.

LESSON PROCEDURES: (What the teacher will do) Symbolic: TTW review daily living skills tasks demonstrated during the previous lesson. TTW show students the picture symbol for the laundry room. TTW ask students to name the room in the picture symbol. TTW tell students that some people have a room in their house where they do a very important task. TTW tell students that some people have the washer and dryer in the basement or another area of the house. TTW tell students some people who do not have a washer and dryer may go to the Laundromat where you put money in the machines to use them. TTW ask students who does the laundry at home? TTW randomly call on students for answers. TTW ask students to raise their hand if they help with laundry. TTW ask students to raise their hand if they help fold and store clean clothes. TTW tell students that they will be doing activities to learn how to do laundry. TTW direct students’ attention to the smart board to view wikihow video for “Doing Laundry”. TTW display a laundry basket of various items. TTW ask students if we can take the basket and dump it in the washer. TTW discuss sorting the laundry. TTW ask students how do we know if an item can be washed. TTW display a care label in an item of clothing. TTW tell students that they will watch a video on doing laundry. TTW have students demonstrate sorting items into piles of similar colors, towels, denim, whites, etc. TTW ask students which pile will we wash first. TTW ask students why we should check pockets before putting items in the washer. TTW ask students why should we close zippers before loading item in the washer. TTW have items with care labels for students to identify and recognize and read laundry vocabulary words. TTW model sorting items into separate piles. TTW have students demonstrate sorting clothing to be laundered. TTW have students demonstrate folding clean laundry and storing items appropriately

Early Symbolic: TTW use a picture symbol sequence for sorting and dividing the tasks into steps. TTW have students look at the steps for sorting before sorting task begins.

Pre-Symbolic: Demonstrate awareness of clothing and items that must be washed. TTW ask students to pick clothing items from the laundry basket and separate into appropriate piles with assistance as needed.

Teacher Assistant Responsibilities: TTW assign TAs small groups of students to practice laundry tasks, such as, Identifying clothing items, sorting by color or items, locating washing instructions, folding or hanging clothes, storing clothes. TAs will collect data on participation and level of independence.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (Additional opportunities where you plan to implement the objectives of this lesson for the students to carry over the skills to other areas…this is to help in planning for generalization practice) The objectives will allow students to become more independent and assist with tasks at home. Reading, color recognition, following a sequence will be reinforced.

SUMMARY/CLOSURE/ASSESSMENT: Ask students what home living task did we learn about and practice today? Washing dishes, Making Beds, Washing Clothes (Laundry) Ask students what do we do to dirty items before washing them? Fold Hang Sort Ask students where on clothing do we look for washing instructions? On a box On the washer On the label For homework, ask family members if you can help sort the dirty laundry, load the washer, load the dryer, unload the dryer, fold or hang clean clothes.