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Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas
Essential
Questions

PA/Common
Core/Standards

DETAILS
Meaghan Sherer
Social Studies
4th
3rd lesson of Australia Unit/ 1 class period
America and Australia are both similar and different.
How are America and Australia both similar and
different?
What are some ways we can show their similarities and
differences?
CC.1.2.4.L- Read and comprehend literary nonfiction
and informational text on grade level, reading
independently and proficiently. (1)

Objective

Bloom's
Taxonomy

Webb's Depth of
Knowledge
(DOK)
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence
ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning
Accommodation
s, Modifications

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

8.4.4.A.-Differentiate common characteristics of the

social, political, cultural, and economic groups in
world history (2)
Students will independently view the contents of a
given information, and compose there own Venn
diagram comparing the US and Australia. (1)
In a group activity, students will incorporate themselves
into a life size Venn diagram comparing and contrasting
America to Australia with 100% accuracy. (2)
Students will receive a grade for accuracy on their
individual Venn diagrams and KWL chart.
The group life size Venn diagram will be assessed to
check for understanding.
Communication and Collaboration
o Develop cultural understanding and global
awareness
Global Awareness
Information Literacy
Behavioral- ADHD- students desk will be equipped with
bouncy bands. These bouncy bands are strong
rubber like bands at the foot of their desk raised off the
ground slightly. They are free to bounce their legs and
feet to get their energy out and, hopefully, be more
attentive to what is going on in the lesson being taught.
Having this tool close to the floor will also minimize
distractions to other children.

CK

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Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

Lesson
Procedure

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge/Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory
Set
Students will look at a picture of the US and Australia
side by side projected on the board.
They will be asked what are some similarities and
differences between these two countries.
If they only start telling me physical details, I will ask for
more internal similarities and differences.
Big Idea Statement
America and Australia are both similar and different.
Essential Questions Statement
How are America and Australia both similar and
different?
What are some ways we can show their similarities and
differences?
Objective Statement
Students will independently view the contents of a given
information, and compose there own Venn diagram
comparing the US and Australia. (1)
In a group activity, students will incorporate themselves
into a life size Venn diagram comparing and contrasting
America to Australia with 100% accuracy. (2)
Transition
none
Key Vocabulary
Venn Diagram
Commonwealth
Confederacy
Territories
Bio-diversities
Oceania
Maritime
Arid
Plateau
Cyclone/tsunami/hurricane
o ***The above are mainly found in the handout
they will receive
PreAssessment of Students
Students will fill out the first two sections of a KWL chart
o They will fill out with that already know and what
they want to know (the final, what they learned,
will be filled out after the activity)

Modeling of the Concept

Students will observe the teacher going through the
given handout from indexmundi.com (projected on the
white board) and highlighting similarities between the
two countries in yellow and differences in pink.
After going through and highlighting, students will
observe me creating my own Venn diagram adding in
facts in the appropriate places
They will then be informed that they will each have to
write down two facts for either US or AU or both; I will
assign them by rows who will get which
o I will tell them this after they have completed
highlighting the handout so that they just dont
highlight what they are assigned to write down for
the life size Venn diagram activity
I will also have some prewritten facts that I think are
important for them to know in case no one says them.
Once everyone is done, volunteers will need to put my
facts in the appropriate place on the life size Venn
diagram.
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will go through the given handout and will
highlight similarities between the two countries in yellow
and differences in pink.
Once they have finished highlighting and circling,
students will fill out a Venn diagram comparing the two
countries.
Guiding the Practice
Students will be assigned by rows to write down two of
their favorite facts of their assigned country(s). They will
then stand in the life size Venn diagram and, when
prompted, will tell the class their fact. We will vote on
whether we agree that they are in the right country on
the diagram by raising hands.
Transition
I will take a picture of them in their life size diagram to
put up in our classroom for visitors to see.
Students will walk back to their seats, taking their facts
with them to discard.
Reading
Floor tape
Materials
Yellow highlighter (for every student)
Technology
Pink highlighter (for every student)
Equipment
Print out of: (for every student)
Supplies
http://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/unitedstates.australia (will only include the following sections:
introduction, geography, and government)
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Students will receive a grade for accuracy on their
Learning/Master
individual Venn diagrams and KWL charts.

y of the
Concept
Closure

Teacher
Self-reflection

Informal Evaluation
The group life size Venn diagram will be assessed to
check for understanding.
Summary & Review of the Learning
Filling out the last part of the KWL chart what they
learned
Once everyone has finished the KWL, a volunteer will
reading out the big idea and essential questions and
give examples as to how we completed them.
Homework/Assignments
none
I had to switch around the independent practice and
the guiding the practice due to the way I formed my
lesson.