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Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC DETAILS CK
Name Ashlee Diemert
Subject Colonies and the colonists
Grade Level 3rd
Date/Duration April 6, 2016
Big Ideas A colonist were the first people to settle in the colonies.
Each colonists home life differed from the next.
There was originally 13 colonies that were broken up
into 3 separate parts.

Essential What do you think a colonist looks like?

Questions What do you think a colonist would do as a job?
Can you name any of the original 13 colonies?
Can you name one of the three regions where there
were colonies?
Students may get discouraged because of some of the
words used.
Provide pictures of what a colonist looks like, the jobs
that they had and the colonies. Visual aides to help
promote their participation.
PA/Common 8.2.3.A. Identify the social, political, cultural, and
Core/Standards economic contributions of individuals and groups from
Pennsylvania.
8.2.8.B. Identify historical documents, artifacts, and
places critical to Pennsylvania history.
Objective The students to be able to name the different regions
and colonies that are located in these regions.
Bloom's The students are able to identify colonists and what
Taxonomy they think they may have looked like and what their
home life was like.
Webb's Depth of Need to make sure work is not too difficult or will not be
Knowledge able to successfully complete the work.
(DOK)
Formative & Formative Assessment: A worksheet that contains
Summative questions that the students must answer about
Assessment creating their own colonist.
Evidence Summative Assessment: At the end of the discussion
and worksheet I will ask some of the students to share
with us their worksheet to see if they have learned
anything from the previous book reading and
discussions.
ISTE Standards Creativity and innovation: The students will create
for Students their own works to express their personal feelings about
the lesson.
Framework for Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making:
21st Century The students will plan and manage this activity to
Learning
 develop a solution about this project.

Accommodation Not have as many colors of crayons, markers, or

s, Modifications colored pencils available.
Assist the student with reading and answering the
questions.
Guide the students thinking to help them stay focused.
Give the option to draw on the IPad. Some students
struggle with holding things because of fine motor
impairment.
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Procedures
RATIONALE for CK
the Learning
Plan
Introduction Activating Prior Knowledge
Colonists were the first people to live and settle in the
United States.
There were 13 original colonies that were broken into 3
different regions.
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Reading of the book: You Wouldnt Want to be an
American Colonist By: Jacqueline Morley
Explicit Big Idea Statement
Instructions There were 13 original colonies. In these colonies were
people who were called colonists. These people were the
first people to settle into the colonies.
Essential Questions Statement
What does a colonist look like?
Can you name a colony? The region the colony is located
in?
Objective Statement
The colonies are broken down into 3 different regions:
New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
Transition
Discussion on colonists. There will be open-ended
questions asked.
Key Vocabulary
Colony, colonist, home life, job, regions.
Provide pictures to keep the work simple enough that
the students will all want to do it and participate.
Lesson PreAssessment of Students
Procedure Before the lesson starts I will ask various questions that
are thought provoking and see what students know
information and which ones do not.
Modeling of the Concept
After the book each student will get a worksheet that
allows them to create their own colonist The students
will be required to answer each question. After they are
done answering the questions they will get the chance
to turn the paper over and draw their own colonist
however they may like.
Will have an online version of the worksheet so that
students with fine motor impairment can fill it in with the
iPad.
Guiding the Practice
I will walk around the room to make sure that the
students are answering the questions just fine. I will help
the students if they appear to be having trouble.
Providing the Independent Practice
The worksheet will allow them to reflect on how colonists
live and create what they may have done if they were
back in that time. There will be no rubric because this is
an individual assignment that is their own and requires
them to be creative.
Transition

Reading Reading of the book: You Wouldnt Want to be an
Materials American Colonist by: Jacqueline Morley
Technology Allow a narrator to read to them on the iPad.
Equipment I will be using the overhead projector to read the book to
Supplies the students.
Supplies: Crayons, markers, or colored pencils,
worksheet, and the book.
Add the iPad into what supplies can be used.
Evaluation of Formal Evaluation
the This information may later be on the standardized tests.
Learning/Master Informal Evaluation
y of the I will collect the worksheets and look over them. To see
Concept what information the students have learned and what
kind of colonist the students have made!
Closure Summary & Review of the Learning
I will ask the students to share some of their colonists.
The answers to the questions and to even show their
colonist and explain why they made them the way that
they did.
A couple more questions about the book to allow the
students to recall information.
Homework/Assignments
NO HOMEWORK!
Teacher See if the students are able to correctly recall
Self-reflection information with the worksheet.
This will allow me to adapt the lesson and curriculum to
what information the students needed review on the
most.