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classroom lesson plan. Through the use of this tool, you will carefully consider and document
the many facets of quality instructional planning. Sharing this documentation with faculty, field
supervisors, and cooperating classroom teachers (CT’s) will help to inform them of your plans
so they can provide support and offer suggestions where appropriate.

Step-by-Step Lesson Elements

Student Name: Anna Tehennepe

Grade Level: seventh Subject Area: social studies/ history

1. State Standards:
 7 – H1.2.1 Explain how historians use a variety of sources to explore the
past (e.g., artifacts, primary and secondary sources including narratives,
technology, historical maps, visual/mathematical quantitative data,
radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis)
 7 – H1.2.6 Identify the role of the individual in history and the significance of
one person’s ideas.

2. Lesson Objective(s) & Targeted Outcome(s):

 TLW be able act out events from history using props
 TLW research a historic event/person from the years 1915-1925
 TLW will work with partners to pick an event and act it out for the class

3. Materials & Resources:

 computer for researching
 rubric for project
 props of their choice (3 per group)
 script written by group

4. Knowing the Students:

 The students will know how to research historical events/ people
 The students will know how to pick out the importance of certain objects or
words in history
 The students will know how to follow instructions and follow the rubric

5. Literacy Connection:
  reading/ researching events in history from 1915-1925

6. Technology Integration:
 using the computer to research

Estimated 7. Instructional Procedures 9. UDL, Differentiation, and

Time Accommodations
Introduction/Activate Prior
Knowledge:
 Remind students about the
previous section taught on
women’s right to vote,
Woodrow Wilson, and other
historical events
 Discuss the correct places to
look for reliable research
Step-By-Step Procedures (including Bloom’s Taxonomy
formative assessment and Create: creating a skit to showcase
metacognition): their knowledge
1. Introduce the project with an Evaluate: evaluating what event to
example of Woodrow Wilson pick that makes the most sense for
being inaugurated using three the project
props (microphone, stand to Analyze: analyzing how it impacted
put speech on, american flag our life today
pin) Apply: applying their knowledge of
2. Tell the students they will be the events to choose props and
in groups of three and have to words to act the event out
pick a significant event Understand: understanding the
between the years of 1915- importance of these events in
1925. history
3. Once the rubric is handed Remember: remembering events
out, read through it with them that were previously taught
and go over scoring
completely Adjusting:
a. every student must participate 1. give students the events and
in the acting for full credit props they must use
4. Count off groups of three 2. Give the students the script
5. Have the students pick an to act out and have them
even and get it approved by guess what event it is
teacher before beginning
more thorough research
6. The students will then pick
three props they are going to
choose to use (props that the
school or students already
have - can borrow from
theatre program)
7. The students will write a script
 8. The students will act out their
script (around 5 minutes long)
for their classmates

8. Closure:
 The students will each write a
reflection on how the event
they chooses impacted us
today. This will help them
remember the event and
understand history’s
significant value on our lives
today.
10. Assessment & Evaluation:
 Each student will be assessed
on how much they contributed
 Each group will be assessed
on their understanding of their
event and the project
 The reflection will be
assessed to see if they
comprehend the importance
of their event
11. Reflection (after teaching lesson):
 Improvitization and imagination after research
 Uses imagination with props
 Acting out events creativity and live with an audience

Other Ideas
 Used for language arts - writing with three objects
 art - picture of what it makes
 engineering - making something out of other things
 math - measurements
Tips
 written instructions for kids - short and sweet
 demonstrations