Lesson: Merit in Motion: Creating a Class Dream Mobile

Published on April 13, 2026

Merit in Motion: Creating a Class Dream Mobile

Freedom 250

📝 Overview

This 60-minute lesson introduces the concept of merit as a key part of the American Dream. Students explore merit and create a class dream mobile to express their future hopes and goals.

📚 Teacher Goals

This lesson plan (LP) guides teachers to:
  • implement scaffolded listening comprehension activities that move students from general to detailed understanding of a video
  • connect the concept of merit with the American Dream and personal dreams
  • prompt students to express their dreams concisely and creatively

🎯 Student Goals

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
  • relate the concept of merit to a U.S. historical figure and the American Dream
  • express a future dream through text, drawing, or object
Two stacked photos. The top shows a pair of glasses resting on a notebook that says Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It. The bottom shows a close up of a computer screen with lines of colorful computer code

📖 Key Vocabulary

Below, you can find key vocabulary related to Merit in Motion: Creating a Class Dream Mobile. You will find a glossary of definitions on page 16 of the downloadable lesson plan.
 
  • compiler
  • computer programmer
  • dream
  • effort
  • merit
  • meritocratic
  • Navy
  • skill
  • talent
A pencil rests on a notebook containing handwritten mathematical equations
 
 
 
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