2015-2016

Name: Nick Tobin & Greg Briggs

Date:3/31/2016
Grade Level:7th
Class Period:
Subject:Social Studies

Lesson # & Title:

Big Idea/Lesson Focus:
Function of the Lesson (check all that apply):
x Introduce New Skill or Content
x Practice
x Review
o Remediation/Re-teaching

Context for Learning: Small groups of students in an after school program, roughly 4
students

Content Standards:Theme: World Studies from 750 B.C. to 1600 A.D. Ancient Greece to
the First Global Age Strand: Geography Topic Human Systems Human systems represent
the settlement and structures created by people on Earths surface. The growth,
distribution and movements of people are driving forces behind human and physical
events. Geographers study patterns in cultures and the changes that result from human
processes, migrations and the diffusion of new cultural traits. Content Statement 13:
Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.

Learning Objectives (aligned to assessment plan): Students to be able to describe how

geographical boundaries affected population movement and trade. Also how the cultures
of populations were altered or shaped by human processes and migrations.
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Academic Language (Academic Language Demands and/or Academic Language

Objectives):vocabulary words such Mountain ranges, seas, oceans, plateau. These words
are important to the standard because these were the factors that impede movement of
people and separated cultures until ways to overcome these geographic factors were
created.

Assessment Plan (aligned to learning objectives)

Formative Assessment:ask a series of questions after every couple of slides to test

how well the knowledge is being received and to see what they are learning.

Summative Assessment:We will give the students a short quiz over geographical
factors and what they did to the movement of man.

Procedures: Lesson Introduction: We will begin the lesson by asking questions such as If
you lived during this time period do you think travel would have been hard or easy to do?
Or we can ask do you think geographical factors hurt or help us as a society?

Presentation/Explicit Instruction (I do: 100% teacher, 0% student): When we are

giving the students the material and explaining to them what the vocab words are and
what they mean. Also this will be doing when we are going over the slides.

Structured Practice/Exploration (We do: 75% teacher, 25% student):this will be done
when we ask questions to see how the students are receiving the information. We will start
discussions and ask the questions requiring the students to answer the questions. This is
how we will involve the students.

Guided Practice/Checking for Understanding (We do: 25% teacher, 75% student):
this will be done by allowing the students to spend about 5 minutes studying before they
take the quiz. We will give them the information that will be on the quiz but it will be their
responsibility to make sure they can memorize, learn, and understand this information.

Independent Practice/Application (They do: 0% teacher, 100% student):when the

students do the short quiz at the end of the lesson they will be required to learn and do
this by themselves with little to no help from us.

Procedures: Lesson Closure: end of the lesson will be a short quiz given over the material
just taught. Will basically do the same thing as an exit slip.

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Differentiation, Individualized Instruction, and Assessment: We will reach out to different

learning styles through visual aides and a lecture.

Instructional Materials and Support: Guided slide, Quiz

Research and Theory Commentary: Research was conducted through credible sources to
ensure the material that is being taught is appropriate and correct. Social Learning Theory
is demonstrated in the lesson.

The following componentsEssential Question, Use of Technology, and Reflection and

Instructional Commentaryare to be scored only as applicable to the plan.

Essential Question (as applicable): how did geographical factors use as mountains, seas,
and oceans hurt and help the movement and ideas of humans?

Use of Technology Commentary (as applicable): A guided power point will be presented to
the students through a projector.UMU Lesson Plan Template

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