The Tikkun Project
Lesson
11
Comparing Plans (Models from Storybooks)
Concept
Looking closely at how different characters have solved a real problem, and testing each attempt against a shared standard, prepares a class to design its own genuinely effective plan.
Focus Question
What are the most important lessons we can learn by considering the actions of others?
Knowledge & Understanding Goals
Kindergarten Program (2016), Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics Behaviours frame -- identifying key story details across multiple texts.
Kindergarten Program (2016), Problem Solving and Innovating frame, Overall Expectation 4: applying established criteria to evaluate multiple examples before generating an original solution.
Thinking & Learning Skills
Thinking Skills (Comparative Evaluation): Applying the same fixed criteria across several stories to find genuine patterns.
Learner Profile Connection (Reflective / Thinkers): Students look back across the unit to inform a real decision.
Context
The unit's final lesson before students design and carry out their own class plan. This lesson is the last checkpoint, testing more examples against the same three-part criteria used throughout the unit.
Lesson Outline
Remind students of the three criteria for an effective plan:
1. Addresses a need
2. helps over time
3. is feasible.
LISTENING FOR THE PATTERN ACROSS STORIES
For each story: What is the problem? Who tries to solve it? How well did the action meet our three criteria? Read aloud from the recommended set, mixing previously-read texts with new ones.
CONNECTING TO OUR OWN PLAN
Ask: "What can we learn from these stories that will help our own plan be successful?" Guide toward: know the real problem first; have the right things to solve it; make sure we can really do the action.
Notes for Teaching and Evaluation
Re-using stories already read earlier lets students test whether their understanding of "Great Plan" criteria has deepened.
Keeping the three criteria unchanged from Lesson 3 is intentional -- comparative pattern-recognition, not novelty.