Teacher(s) Name: _Kelsey OHara Group: Lindsay, Crystal, Shomein

Thematic Unit Theme/Title/Grade Level: Florida Pioneers Grade 4

Wiki space address: http://ucfgr4pioneerlifeinflf16t.weebly.com/
Daily Lesson Plan Day/Title: Day 1 Who Were the Florida Pioneers
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Learning
Learning Goal:
Goals/Objectives
Students will be able to describe pioneer life in Florida.
What will students
accomplish be able to do Learning Objectives: *you MUST have objectives to meet all
at the end of this
standards
lesson? Be sure to set
1. The student will be able to write a journal entry from the
significant (related to
point of view of a Florida pioneer.
SSS/CCSS), challenging
2. Students will be able to compare and contrast pioneer life
and appropriate learning
in Florida to life in Florida today.
goals!
3. Students will be able to discuss characteristics of Florida
pioneers.
4. Students will be able to identify how the map of Florida has
changed.
5. Students will be able to find whole-number quotients
6. Students will be able to use primary source photographs to
identify characteristics of pioneer life
NCSS Themes
NCSS theme(s):
Florida Standards
Time, continuity, and change
(FS)
People, places, and environments
Next Generation
Culture
Sunshine State
Florida Standard(s):
Standards (NGSSS)
SS.4.A.4.2 Describe pioneer life in Florida.
List each standard.
SS.4.A.1.1 Analyze primary and secondary resources to
Cutting and pasting from
identify significant individuals throughout Florida history.
the website is allowed.

SS.4.G.1.2 Locate and label cultural features on a Florida map.

http://www.cpalms.org/P
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards:
ublic/
LAFS.4.W.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive
details, and clear event sequences.
LAFS.4.SL.1.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions.
MAFS.4.NBT.2.6 Find whole-number quotients and remainders
with up to four-digit dividends

Assessment
How will student
learning be
assessed?
Authentic/Alternative
assessments?
Does your assessment
align with your
objectives, standards
and procedures?

Informal assessment
(multiple modes):
participation rubrics,
journal entries,
collaborative
planning/presentatio
n notes, etc.
Design for Instruction
Student Activities &
Procedures
What best practice
strategies will be
implemented?
How will you
communicate
student
expectations?
What products will be
developed and
created by students?
Consider Contextual
Factors (learning
differences/learning
environment/learning
styles) that may be
in place in your
future classroom.
Exceptionalities
What accommodations
or modifications do you
make for ESOL
http://teachsocialstudies
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ehensibleInstruction.pdf/
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ction.pdf
and ESE (Gifted/Talented
students,

Unit Pre-Assessment:
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/582b616a3fb0424d01017876
Unit Post-Assessment:
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/582b616a3fb0424d01017876
On-going daily (progress-monitoring) Assessment:
Students record in their pioneer journal at the end of every class.
4. I can teach someone about pioneer life in Florida
3. I can describe pioneer life in Florida
2. I can describe 1-2 aspects of pioneer life
1. I can't tell you anything about Florida pioneers.

1. Introduce novel: A Land Remembered during ELA

2. Explain to students that this week we will learn about the

Learning/Reading
disabilities, SLD etc.)
http://www.udlcenter.org
/aboutudl/udlguidelines/
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Florida pioneers
3. Ask students why journals are important part of history
(answer: no cameras, no computers, understanding what life
was like)? Ask students what do people write about in their
journals (answer: what happens in their lives, family and
friends, important events)
4. Students will begin to construct their pioneer journal. Hand
out materials. Students listen to pioneer music.

http://www.floridamemory.com/blog/2015/02/06/its-high-timefor-a-frolic/
5. Introduce vocabulary to add to glossary in journal. 5. Teach
technical vocabulary supporting key concepts. 2.1 Clarify
vocabulary and symbols
a. Pioneer- a person who is among the first to explore or
settle a new country or area
b. Journal- a daily record of news and events of a personal
nature; a diary.
6. Begin PowerPoint presentation
I. Why did people move to Florida? (answer: cheap land,
farming, adventure)
a. Show primary pictures.
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33476
II. When did people begin to settle in Florida? (answer 1820s,
prior knowledge: Florida becomes a territory, AdamsOns
Treaty) 4. Link lesson topic to students prior
knowledge. 3.1 Activate or supply background
knowledge.
III. Explain to students that Florida was wilderness (no cities,
two people per square mile,). Show primary pictures.
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/139602

IV. How did pioneers travel (answer: covered wagon)

a.
Show primary photographs of covered wagons.
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/28795

b.
c.
d.
e.

Show toy model of covered wagon

Explain to students that it took a long time to travel
by wagon. (10-15 miles a day), No cars, planes,
buses, trains, roads).
Ask students to discuss in groups how transportation
has changed? How do people today travel (cars,
planes, trains, buses)
Show students rates of travel 1800.
http://www.mnn.com/greentech/transportation/stories/how-fast-could-youtravel-across-the-us-in-the-1800s. (It took pioneers 3
weeks OH-FL)

f.

Show students flight time Ohio to Florida.

https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=MCO,SFB;
t=CLE;d=2016-12-08;r=2016-12-12. It takes us 3
hours today by plane.
g.
Driving from Miami to Orlando (Show on Google
Maps) takes 3 hours today. The distance between
Miami and Orlando is 230 miles. Ask students to
estimate how long it would take to travel by wagon.
Have students calculate how long it would take them
to arrive by wagon if you can only travel 10 miles
per day. (23 hours/2 days)
7. Display pioneer supply list needed for trip.
http://idahoptv.org/productions/specials/visions/40.pdf
a.
Ask students to discuss in groups and create a packing
list for what they would bring for a long trip today? 2.
Promote cooperation (small groups). 8.3 Foster

collaboration and community

Construct a Venn Diagram as a whole group. Students
from each group add to the Venn Diagram using IWB.
45. Use Venn diagrams to contrast and compare
activities
8. Show students an old map of Florida VS a modern map of
Florida.
http://www.jud10.flcourts.org/sites/all/files/img/Jud10History/m
aps/co1824.gif
b.

a.

Students compare maps. Pass out modern map of

Florida, zip lock bags, and markers. Students draw
the 1800 version on zip lock over modern map.
b.
Ask students how Florida map has changed (answer:
more counties, different names)?
c.
Ask students what county they live in (answer:
Orange)? Ask student to circle on IWB. Then have
students put a star on their map.
d.
Ask students what county they would have lived in
the 1800s?
9. Pose questions for students to answer as they write in their
pioneer journals. Teacher models. Complete for HW 8. Use

Resources/Materials

direct instruction: Modeling, explaining, scaffolding, name the

Strategy and show how to use it. 7.1 Optimize individual
choice and autonomy
a. What is your name?
b. What is your age?
c. Where are you traveling from?
d. How do you feel about leaving home?
e. Why are you and your family leaving home?
f. What county are you moving to?
g. What did you pack?
h. What does Florida look like?
A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith
PowerPoint presentation
Primary photographs and music:
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33476
Covered Wagon model
Large paper bags
Hole punch
Yarn
Markers
Zip Lock Bags
Florida Maps:
http://www.jud10.flcourts.org/sites/all/files/img/Jud10History/maps/c
o1824.gif
Airline website:
https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=MCO,SFB;t=CLE;d=201612-08;r=2016-12-12
IWB
Supply List: http://idahoptv.org/productions/specials/visions/40.pdf
Rates Of Travel: http://www.mnn.com/greentech/transportation/stories/how-fast-could-you-travel-across-the-usin-the-1800s
Assessment:
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/582b616a3fb0424d01017876

Field Trip: Barberville Pioneer Settlement

http://www.pioneersettlement.org/