MTV Tug of War Lesson Plan
MTV Tug of War Lesson Plan
MTV Tug of War Lesson Plan
Date:9/8/16
Grade Level:
college
all
analyze how public policy - domestic and foreign - is developed at the local, state,
and national levels and compare how policy-making occurs in other forms of
government by
Understandings: (Big Ideas)
Develop understanding of varied perspectives.
Evaluate the strength of evidence of arguments.
Create empathy and foster open mindedness.
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Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention.
These are actions and statements by the
teacher to relate the experiences of the
students to the objectives of the lesson,
To put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
To focus student attention on the
lesson.
To create an organizing framework
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to be
introduced.
Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the
minute they arrive to the minute they
The materials need for this lesson are paper, dry erase board, dry erase
markers.
Ask students to think what tug of war might mean In the classroom and
give a brief intro to the strategy.
For demonstration get students hooked by using a slightly controversial
topic like the death penalty.
Teacher input: intro spend 3 minutes explaining what the tug of war
method is, its purpose and some ideas for application.
Whole class practice/ individual practice: Go through step one and
introduce the issue. Quickly!
In pairs: Have students do steps 2 and 3 by brainstorming tugs 2 ish
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Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
minutes
In pairs: students will then put values on tugs for both sides and put
them on the rope which is on the board.
Whole class practice: discuss and review if there is time.
Students who do not like group work may opt to work alone.
Differentiation:
Students whom are more shy can elect to write a private reflection on
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Differentiation should be
embedded throughout your
whole lesson!!
This is to make sure you have
met the needs of your students
on IEPS or 504
their reasoning for different strengths and things they didnt agree with
during the tug of war.
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