Lesson 2

Lesson Planning Form for Differentiating Instruction
Teacher Elizabeth Mulcock

Grade level and theme 4
th
Grade Social Studies Thread/crossover Geography/Culture
I. Objectives
What is the main focus of this lesson?
Showing the students where people coming to merica are coming !rom" #here their home countries are"
How does this lesson tie in to our !ig Idea
This looks at the $e!ore part o! Ellis %sland" &ooking at where people who !irst came through Ellis %sland came !rom"
What are our objectives for this lesson? '(students will be able to)"* Indicate connections to a""licable national or state
standards #glces$. %ndicate themes any threads addressed in this lesson 'e+,Geography,human environment interaction*
S#$T-
.* /ead and interact with a map
0* /esearch their own cultural background
1* Create a display that represents parts o! their culture
G&CE2s-
.* The #orld in Spatial Terms- G."3"1,
%denti!y and describe the characteristics and purposes o! a variety o! geographic tools and technologies 'e"g" globe4 map4 satellite
image*
Etc"
II. !efore ou start
Prere%uisite &nowledge and s&ills.
What are ou assuming the &now
or have alread done.
5w be!ore lesson- Students may need a !ew days to go home and look into their ancestry
be!ore this lesson" #e could give a homework assignment in which students talk to their
parents or guardians about their cultural background"
6nderstanding the idea that people wanted to leave their country to travel to a new one4
7now how to read and understand a map4
7now how to use a computer4 ipad to !ind in!ormation 'all students should know this*
'ssessment
#formative and summative$
&ooking at the visuals and in!ormation the groups share" This can tell how much the students
understand the concept"
(e vocabular for this lesson
ncestors
)aterials*what materials #boo&s+
handouts+ etc$ do ou need for this
lesson and do ou have them?
%,pads4 computers4 and books that research about di!!erent countries4
ll di!!erent arts and cra!ts supplies so students can make visuals to help teach the class about
their country 'have things like paper plates4 poster4 construction paper4 scissors4 markers4
plastic cups4 pipe cleaners4 bottles4 bo+es4 etc"*4
5ave a blank poster !or each country to decorate and write the name o! their country on"
O""ortunities for differentiation
This will be a good lesson !or students who work well on their own compared to working in
groups4 which is the ma8ority o! our other lessons"
Students will be creating all di!!erent types o! visuals to teach the class about their country"
you can give a list o! good websites4 and give ideas about what students can make but this
activity is very open ended in what the students can research and make about their country"
III. ,he Plan
,ime
Parts
,he descri"tion of #scri"t for$ the lesson+ wherein ou describe teacher activities and student
activities
)otivation
#O"ening-
Introduction-
.ngagement$
Start the class by asking why people would want to leave their home country4 to make sure students
remember yesterday2s lesson" (9eople !rom all over wanted to leave their country and today we are going
to try to !igure out where all these people came !rom" /emember yesterday when we wrote stories about
why we wanted to leave our home country: #ell today we are going to travel to these countries and
really get to know them")
Develo"ment
6se laptops or i,pads i! available4 or go to a computer lab" %nstruct students to research the country o! their
ancestry 'have them pick one i! they have multiple*" /esearch the !oods they ate4 clothing they wore4
holidays they celebrated4 !amous paintings and musicians they had4 mode o! transportation"
(t the end o! class we are going to be presenting and teaching the rest o! the class about the country you
researched" To help with your presentations4 you should make a sign where you write the country you are
researching and also use all the supplies provided to make visuals to show the class" ;raw !ood4 a !amous
painting4 a !amous landmark in the country4 make clothing4 people4 houses !rom the country4 whatever is
needed to help teach and show the class")
Give the students between 13 min , . hour and 13 min to do research and make visuals" Give each group
a desk or table around the room to set up their display o! in!ormation"
/losure
(#e are now going to go on a tour o! the world<)
,Go on a walk around the class and e+plore each (country)
,E+plain at the end that all these countries represent where everyone who migrated to merica came !rom"
(Everyone who came to merica came !rom a country with a rich culture" These people decided to leave
their homes because o! the push,pull !actors we learned about yesterday" ll o! these people brought
these cultures with them and that is why a lot o! you know a lot about some o! these cultures because your
!amily might still eat !oods4 wear clothes4 celebrate holidays !rom the country your !amily came !rom")
(&ater we will look at what happened when all these di!!erent cultures tried to come together and all live
in merica")

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Lesson Planning Form for Differentiating Instruction

Teacher Elizabeth Mulcock

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