Name: Kali Wesolowski

Date: April 24, 2016

Lesson Details
Lesson Title
The Fifty Nifty United States: Identifying the different state nickname, symbols, flowers, and birds of America

Content Area
Social Studies

Grade Level
4th Grade

Timeline
(Each part of these days will be worked on during our time for social studies) Day 1: Assign the states to each student Day 2: Start
research and answer questions if needed Day 3: Start the presentations Day 4: Finish the presentation

Date of Lesson
Edit

May 6th, 2016

UBD Stage I: Identify Desired Results
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to:
1) Have a particular state that they are assigned. And find out things about that state such as the state bird, symbol, animal, etc.
2) After the students are done they will go to the front of the class and present what they found out about there state and the students
will have a follow along paper on each state.

Standards
Pa Standards
Standard - 5.1.4.F
Identify state symbols, national symbols, and national holidays.dit
The Standards Aligned System includes content from several outstanding community, cultural, and educational institutions.

ISTE Standards 3
Research and information fluency:
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information
Plan strategies to guide inquiry
Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources of media
Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on appropriateness to specific tasks
Process data and report results
Students will use these standards they are given to apply their skills to research and find out all the possibly can about the states
they are assigned

Enduring Understandings
The students will be able to identify the state in which they are assigned and explain there states nickname,
flower, nickname, flower, and what makes there state unique.

Essential Questions
What is your state?
What is your states nickname?
What is your states flower?
What is your states bird?
What makes your state unique?

UBD Stage II: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Tasks
The students after writing down each students presented state they will have a sheet when the students is presenting and write down
each part in which each students presents. To be able retain the information that is being presented

Formal: A rubric will be given to the students so they know exactly what they need to present on
Informal: Just have the students go up to the front of the class and briefly talk about what state
they are presenting.Edit

Rubric/Scoring Criteria
Teacher Name: Ms. Wesolowski
Student Name:

CATEGORY

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Pitch

Pitch was often used

and it conveyed
emotions
appropriately.

Pitch was often used

but the emotion it
conveyed
sometimes did not fit
the content.

Pitch was rarely

Pitch was not used
used OR the
to convey emotion.
emotion it conveyed
often did not fit the
content.

Stays on Topic

Stays on topic all

(100%) of the time.

Stays on topic most Stays on topic some It was hard to tell

(99-90%) of the time. (89%-75%) of the
what the topic was.
time.

Comprehension

Student is able to
accurately answer
almost all questions
posed by classmates
about the topic.

Student is able to
accurately answer
most questions
posed by classmates
about the topic.

Student is able to
accurately answer a
few questions posed
by classmates about
the topic.

Student is unable to
accurately answer
questions posed by
classmates about
the topic.

Speaks Clearly

Speaks clearly and

distinctly all (10095%) the time, and
mispronounces no
words.

Speaks clearly and

distinctly all (10095%) the time, but
mispronounces one
word.

Speaks clearly and

distinctly most ( 9485%) of the time.
Mispronounces no
more than one word.

Often mumbles or
can not be
understood OR
mispronounces more
than one word.

Content

Shows a full
Shows a good
Shows a good
understanding of the understanding of the understanding of
topic.
topic.
parts of the topic.

Preparedness

Student is
completely prepared
and has obviously
rehearsed.

Student seems
pretty prepared but
might have needed a
couple more
rehearsals.

Listens to Other Listens intently.

Does not make
Presentations

Listens intently but

has one distracting
distracting noises or noise or movement.
movements.

Props

Student uses several

props (could include
costume) that show
considerable
work/creativity and
which make the
presentation better.

Does not seem to

understand the topic
very well.

The student is
Student does not
somewhat prepared, seem at all prepared
but it is clear that
to present.
rehearsal was
lacking.

Sometimes does not

appear to be
listening but is not
distracting.

Sometimes does not

appear to be
listening and has
distracting noises or
movements.

Student uses 1 prop Student uses 1 prop

that shows
which makes the
considerable
presentation better.
work/creativity and
which make the
presentation better.

The student uses no

props OR the props
chosen detract from
the presentation.

UBD Stage III: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Materials and Resources
1) Markers, poster board, computer, project sheets

Procedures and Content

1)

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T:Student gets called up to present assignment.
S: The student will present their given state.

2)
T:Student presents topics on state.
S: Those topics being states nickname, flower, bird, and something unique about their states.
3)
4)

T: the presenter will give the information needed to the other students
S: The other students will then write down the information they have learned to the sheet of paper they are given.

Homework
Go home and look up any information they have missed, fill out a states sheet labeling all the states.

Presentation sheets
.

Name__________________________________________

States name:_______________________________

States flower:
States nickname
States bird:

Interesting fact:

What is something new you learned about this state?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________

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