Lesson Plan Template 2016-2017 (with NEPF)
Introduction:
Our class has won a field trip around the world! Grab a friend
and a passport and get ready to explore!
Daily Reviews: How was the country’s culture that you
explored different from yours?
Daily Objective: SWBAT identify and research the culture of
their assigned country with a group, organize the information
on a poster board, and present together.
Concept and Skill Development and Application:
Researching one of the six countries and working with group
members to organize and present information.
Instructional Standards
Standard 1: Learning Purpose and Connections
 What strategies will help students make connections to
previous learning?
 How will students know the purpose and relevance of the
lesson?
 How will students build their current knowledge?
Standard 2: Learning Tasks and Cognitive Demands
 What Depth of Knowledge levels will students experience
in the learning tasks?
 How will students be supported to experience deeper
learning?
 How will students be challenged to advance their thinking
and skills?
Standard 3: Engagement
 How will students develop their skills in argumentation,
explanation, and critique, using logic/evidence to support
or refute a claim or position?
 How will students use multiple representations of
concepts in their thinking? (i.e., graphic organizers, visuals,
drawings, concept maps, videos, simulations, data formats)
 What opportunities will students have to use their
personal experiences and knowledge to connect to the new
concepts and skills?
 How will students collaborate with each other?
Standard 4: Student Understanding of and Responsibility for
Learning
 How will students know the learning goals, the
performance criteria and purpose of the lesson?
 How will students share their progress?
 How will students be supported in revising their learning
strategies based on their progress?
Guided/Independent/Group Practice:
Independent: Choosing the country they’re most interested in.
Group Practice: Research & present in groups of 5 or 6.
Homework Assignments:
Find a fact on one of the countries that we explored that wasn’t
presented in class.
Closure: Thank you for presenting what you learned on your
travels! Now that we've returned from our trip, and you've learned
about all the six countries from your and the other groups, keep in
mind the different type of cultures around the world!
Long-Term Memory Review:
What flag belongs to which country?
Notes/Actions
 Strategies of comparing the new cultures from other
countries learned to their own will form connections.
 The students will know the purpose and relevance of the
lesson by exploring how different other cultures are
compared to their own. Also, by listening to a Voki
character that’ll further explain the purpose of the lesson.
 Students will build their current knowledge by researching
their country’s culture both independently and with group
members. Also, by presenting using a PowerPoint or
poster.
 The students will identify and understanding what culture
is and what countries we’ll be exploring through my Pecha
Kucha presentation.
 Students will be supported to experience deeper learning
by using concept maps on paper or online sites such as
WebspirationClassroom to organize their cultural research.
 Students will be challenged to advance their thinking and
skills by doing their own research and putting together
information on a specific country’s culture to present to
the class.
 Students will develop their skills in argumentation by
having to agree on what parts of a country’s culture their
group wants to include in their presentation. Explanation
and logic/evidence skills will be developed during their
presentation.
 Students will use multiple representations of concepts in
their thinking by using idea organizers such as those on
Padlet and/or Piktochart.
 Opportunities students will have to use their personal
experiences and knowledge to connect to the new
concepts and skills will be during their presentation.
Maybe their culture and the one they are presenting on
have similarities or very large differences they can share.
 Students will collaborate with each other by working
together on assigning what’s being research, how it will be
organized, and how it will be presented to the class.
 Students will know the learning goals, the performance
criteria and purpose of the lesson by easily accessing the
provided rubric and objective of the lesson on Zunal.
 Students will share their progress by using Penzu and
writing a journal entry on the information on culture they
learned.
 Students will be supported in revising their learning
strategies based on their progress by me, the educator. I
will check both their journal entry and concept map.
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Standard 5: Assessment Integrated Into Instruction
 How were student pre-assessments or work samples used
to plan this lesson?
 What evidence of student learning will be generated
during the lesson? (i.e., writing one-on-one conferencing,
discussion with peers, instructional tasks)
 How will students receive formative feedback?
 How are instructional adjustments based on students’
results from their formative assessments?
 Student pre-assessments or work samples used to plan
this lesson will be collected on MonkeySurvey, where
students take a short survey on what culture means to
them. Also through various in class discussions.
 Evidence of student learning will be shown through the
presentation given, the answer and questions on cultures
with peers, and journal reflection entry.
 Students will receive formative feedback passed on their
presentation and how the information presented meets
with the provided rubric.
 Instructional adjustments based on students’ results from
their formative assessments will be made through
encouraging students to ask direct questions to me or
their classmates through Edmodo. Also, by having a
providing a Quizlet flashcard set, involving the significant
information presented in the lesson so that those students
still having trouble can recap as much as they’d like.