EDUC 474 LESSON PLAN

Candidate Name:
Mary A Bennett

Date:
05/01/16

Lesson Title:
Maps All Around Us

Grade Level:
2nd Grade

Type of Lesson:
Inquiry Lesson

Content Area:
Social Studies

Content Standard:
2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative loca
tions of people, places, and environments.
1. Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and
geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the
classroom, the school).

ELD Standard:
A. Collaborative
1. Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative
conversations on a range of social and academic topics.
C. Productive
9. Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics.

Lesson Objective:
All students will create a map of a town using classroom materials and internet
resources.
Driving Question:
How do people travel to unknown places?

Assessment Plan (formative & summative):

Formative:
Teacher will walk around as groups of students explore google maps. Teacher will be
checking for understanding of map skills. The teacher will check that students are
working to explore various areas of the map. Students should be able to identify
streets, homes, businesses, parks, and other points of interest.
Summative:
Groups of students will design and create a map.
Students will present the map and explain how it is useful in helping people travel
from place to place.
Students will write a paragraph explaining why and how people use maps.

Assessment Accommodations (formative & summative, per focus student):

Formative:
EL- The teacher will ask promoting questions to guide academic conversation within
the group.
The teacher will also give the student additional think time when asking questions.
ADD- The teacher will ask a variety of questions to keep student interest.
Summative:
EL-The teacher will give the student additional time to complete the paragraph. The
teacher will also provide sentence frames to help structure the written paragraph.
ADD-The teacher will provide the opportunity for the student to type his or her
paragraph response. The teacher will also provide a variety of questions for the
student to focus on while responding to the prompt.

INTO (intro event or hook, driving question)

The teacher will begin by having students work to complete a Find Someone
Who activity.
After students have completed the activity, they will meet the teacher on the
rug.
The teacher will ask students to recall the questions from the activity. What
were some of the questions? What did most of the questions have in
common?
Students will then have a discussion about traveling places.
The teacher will create a graphic organizer as students are brainstorming and
discussing travel.
Discuss students ideas and clarify any questions they may have.
Presenting the driving question: How do people travel to unknown places?

THROUGH (cycle of inquiry, formative assessment/checking for understanding)

The teacher will put students into cooperative learning groups and allow them
time to brainstorm the driving question.
Once students are done the teacher will ask for students to share what they
discussed.
Next, the teacher will guide students on using google maps.
Students will work in their groups exploring their neighborhood or any other
point of interest.
During this time the teacher will do a formative assessment. Walking around and
checking for understanding of map skills. The teacher will check that students
are working to explore various areas of the map.
Students should be able to identify streets, homes, businesses, parks, and other
points of interest.
The teacher will give each group of students the task of designing their own
map. The map must include streets, homes, businesses, parks, ect.
Students are able to use any materials in the classroom that they need to make
their map.
Students should be able to explain the location of a variety of places on their
map, and how to travel from each place to place.

BEYOND (application or presentation of learning, summative assessment)

Each group of students will present the maps that they have created.
The students will be required to answer why the map is useful and how it helps
people travel from place to place.
Next, students will write a paragraph explaining why and how people use maps.