AccomplishmentApril

6th Grade

Accomplishment - To achieve one’s goals; finish wholly; to complete.

Purpose: This lesson helps students celebrate the accomplishments of others and realize what they are capable of accomplishing themselves.

Materials: Bingo Cards, Accomplishments of Famous people

Introduction : 1. Before the lesson begins, the teacher should cut out all of the

accomplishments, fold them up and put them I a basket, can, container.2. The teacher will introduce the word accomplishment and give the definition3. The teacher will ask the students if they can name famous accomplishments

EX: the first man to walk on the moon….the first women to fly across the Atlantic, etc.

4. The teacher will divide the class into groups of three or four students and hand our BINGO cards to each group

5. The teacher will explain the game…They will draw out an accomplishment of a famous person and when the students find this accomplishment on a card, then sold place an “X” over this spot. The first group to get a row of X’s wins.

6. The teacher will continue to read out the accomplishments until the first team gets a line of X’s in any direction. They should yell out the word ACCOMPLISHMENT when they have won the game.

Conclusion:1. The teacher will ask the students to think about what they want to accomplish within the next 10 years. 2. the teacher will ask the students to share some of their ideas

Accomplishment BINGO Card # 1

Accomplishment BINGO Card # 2

Accomplishment BINGO Card # 3

Accomplishment BINGO Card # 4

Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom.

Rosa Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey, bus driver Jame’s Blake’s demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man.

Neil Armstrong was become the first man to walk on the Moon. He stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft.

Benjamin Franklin tested his idea to see if the lightning would pass through metal in June of 1752l. He decided to use a metal key and a kite to prove that lightning is really a stream of electrified air.

Bill Gates is rated the richest man in the world for the past thirteen years. He is the founder of Microsoft.

George Washington was the first president of the United States and took his oath of office on April 30, 1789

Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to take a controlled, sustained flight in the airplane they invented. This historic flight took place on Thursday, December 17, 1903. The flight was only 12 seconds and covered a distance of 120 feet.

Taylor Hicks is the latest American Idol winner from Birmingham Alabama.

Oprah Winfrey She has been ranked the richest African Americans of the 20th century. She recently built a aschool for girls in Africa and continues to do good deeds around the world.

Italy is the latest World Cup Soccer Winner

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb Mount Everest on May 29,1953. Disney’s Animal Kingdom now has a ride so you can experience the climb of this great mountain.

Michelangelo repainted the huge ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . The work took him four years to complete. He had to build a special scaffolding so he could reach the ceiling which made him have to lie down to paint.

Ludwig von Beethoven is mainly known as a composer of music but he also knew how to play the piano and violin. He gradually went totality deaf but continued to create musical masterpieces.

Martin Luther King was the most famous leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a political activist, a minister, and was one of America's greatest orators. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines. He introduced the Model T car and was awarded 161 U.S. patents.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian sailor and navigator credited with the discovery of the Americas.

Jackie Coogan, child film star starred in the Chaplin movie The Kid and became the youngest person to make a million dollars.

Michael Weinheimer learned how to calculate the very complicated math of square roots at age seven. Three years later, he learned how to tie his shoelaces.

Wilma Rudolph was considered the fastest woman I the world when she won three gold Olympic Medals. She was unable to walk until she was eight.

Admiral David Farragut served as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy at age 9. he is famous for saying “Full Speed Ahead. He was the first admiral of the Navy.

Lesson Plan EvaluationCharacter Word___________________Grade Level_____________

Objective Yes Somewhat NoWas the lesson easy to read and understand buy the

teachers?Was the sequence of the lesson correct?

Were the activities easy to understand?

Were the students engaged throughout the lesson?

Did the students enjoy the activities?

Were the materials easy to use?

Were the visuals appropriate for the learners?

Were there adequate activities planned?

Was the lesson relevant to the learners?

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