Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level/Subject: Fourth grade/ Central Focus: Students will be able to explain why
NC Historical People
particular individuals are important to North Carolinas
history.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
CCSS.SS.4.H.2.1- Explain why important people, buildings, statues,
monuments, and place names are associated with the state's history.
Date submitted:
Date
taught:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.7
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge
through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Daily Lesson Objective:
Students will be able to explain why certain people are important to North Carolinas history by
conducting a short research project about their lives.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Life and Career Skills- In the guided Vocabulary):
practice, students will be working
with their group to conduct a short Product, assignment, practice: Students will have an
research project on their historical
opportunity to write, speak, listen, or read throughout the
person and put the information in
guided practice and independent practice.
paragraph form. This will give
students the opportunity to work
Learning Target: Students will researching and creating a
with each other and develop the
final product using the information they learned during the
social skills they will need in the
guided practice section of this lesson.
future.
Learning and Innovation SkillsStudents will use communication
and collaboration to create a
Chatterpix using the facts they
learned about their person.
Students will be doing this during
the independent practice.
Prior Knowledge:
Students will need to understand people came and settled on the land that we now call North
Carolina. The students also need to know how to use and operate Chatter Pix.
Activity
1. Focus and Review

Description of Activities and Setting

Good morning class, remember when Mrs. Little had a station
last week centered around famous people in NC and we read
paragraphs about certain people and filled out a chart? Yes.
Do you remember why those people were important?
Example answers: They helped settle NC, they were lawyers
or governors, and they fought in the war. Can anyone name

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me a person that was on the sheet? Example: Daniel Boone.

2. Statement of
Objective
for Student

3. Teacher Input

Today you all are going to work in groups of three to conduct

research about of these six people. At the end of the lesson,
you are going to use Chatter pix to create a representation of
your person and explain how they contributed to North
Carolina.
The teacher will ask the students to form groups of three. She
will ask the students to appoint one person in their group as
the recorder (or writer), one person as the researcher, and
one person as the speaker and explain what each job entails.
She will hand out a piece of notebook to writer and an iPad to
the researcher. The teacher will turn on the Doc cam so the
students can see an outline of steps they need to complete
for this activity. So Im going to give each group member a
person and you are responsible for writing a paragraph of
details about this persons life on your paper. Your group must
have at least 7 facts about your person written in paragraph
form on your paper. The teacher will read aloud the first set
of directions for those students who need to hear the
instructions.
People: Daniel Boone, John Lawson, John Motley Morehead,
William R. Davie, William Henry Singleton, Winifred Marshall
Gales
Does anyone have an questions about the first task? If not,
lets get started

4. Guided Practice

5. Independent
Practice

Teacher pulls up Kiddle on her iPad and places it under the

Doc Cam. She demonstrates how to search for information
going through Kiddle (and not Google), which websites were
the best for collecting information (ones that have bullet
points and pictures) and how to write the information you find
in your own words.
For the independent practice, students will research their
specific person. The teacher will be roaming around the room,
checking in on groups and seeing if they need help. She will
have to make sure the students arent copying directly from
the website but that they are paraphrasing the information
and putting it into their own words. She will read the
paragraphs each group has (making sure they wrote down
important information) before allowing them to create a

Chatter Pix.
Once you are finished, you may start your Chatter Pix.

6. Assessment
Methods of
all
objectives/skills:

Students must screenshot a picture of the person from the

internet and draw a line for the mouth and the speaker of the
group will read the information their group found out.
Students Chatter Pix must include:
Name of person
At least 5 facts
Decorations/ backgrounds- creativity using the clipart on app

Can anyone tell me what theyve learned today? Example

answers: Boone, NC was named after Daniel Boone. He was
an explorer, pioneer and researcher who settled in the
mountain region of North Carolina. There are tons of people
7. Closure
who have contributed various things to NC and are
recognized. The next time you visit a different city in NC make
sure you ask questions about why it is named that- you may
learn something new!
Targeted Students
Student/Small Group
Modifications/Accommodations:
Modifications/Accommodations:
Students that are ESL learners can
If students have a hard time finding the
summarize the information they found in
information, the teacher could have a list of prebullet points instead of long paragraphs.
selected websites of where the students can find
Gifted learners could be given different
information on their person. If students have a
tasks for their Chatter pix (such as change
hard time working in their groups, the teacher
your voice to sound like how you think
could also pre-select the groups.
youre historical person would sound) so
they will not become easily bored
throughout the independent practice.
Materials/Technology:
(Include any instructional materials (e.g., worksheets, assessments PowerPoint/Smart Board slides, etc.) needed to implement the lesson at
the end of the lesson plan.)

Doc Cam
6 iPads
6 pieces of notebook paper