Lesson Plan

GRADE/CLASS: 7th Grade UNIT TOPIC: Religion SUBJECT AREA(S): Social Studies DAY: 2

Desired learning outcome(s): The learner will be able to describe the major beliefs of Hinduism. The learner will be able to explain how Hinduism evolved over centuries. Essential question(s) from learning objective: What do Hindus believe? How has Hinduism changed over time? NC Essential Standards: 7.H.1 Use historical thinking to analyze various modern societies. 7.H.2 Understand the implications of global interactions. 7.G.1 Understand how geography, demographic trends, and environmental conditions shape modern societies and regions. 7.C&G.1 Understand the development of government in modern societies and regions. 7.C.1 Understand how cultural values influence relationships between individuals, groups and political entities in modern societies and regions. Learner prior knowledge/ learner background experiences: The learner should have a solid grasp of how Hinduism began. The learner should have knowledge of ancient Indian culture dating back to the Indus River Valley Civilization. Materials and resources needed: I will need the Smart board and Power Point capabilities. The Power Point contains a video, so I will need speakers as well. Teaching strategies anticipatory strategies (background knowledge) I will ask the students to explain Karma to me. The students should have at least heard the term before, and one of the students should be able to explain it. developmental strategies

I will present a Power Point lecture and the students will take notes. I will strategically place conversation provoking slides to motivate class discussions. concluding strategies I will give a short-answer quiz asking the students to define Moksha, Reincarnation, and Karma.

Assessment The quizzes will serve as my summative assessment. I will use student input during class discussions as my formative assessment. Accommodations/modifications to strategies or assessments I will provide extra time on the quiz for the struggling learner but during that same time allow students to fill in a graphic organizer that will be due by the end of the unit. Wrap-up and reflection by the students Reflection by the teacher Today the material covered was the beliefs of Hinduism. I began the class by asking the students to define the term Karma. They were familiar with the term, but only knew of its negative connotations. I feel this small activity effectively primed the students brains for the lesson. The main strategy used during the lesson was a PowerPoint lecture on the beliefs of Hinduism. We compared the holy books of Hinduism, the Vedas, to the Christian Bible, and the students were intrigued and had a lot of great input. The class was fascinated with the idea of Karma and Reincarnation. Sometimes its hard to tell with this group because they are smart and have the tendency to ask questions the will sidetrack the lesson. They were asking great questions about Karma and Reincarnation but then started asking what if questions in an attempt to avoid going forward. This may have had something to do with the quiz I promised to give them at the end of the period. My assessment was a quiz at the end of the lesson. The students did fairly well on the quizzes which leads me to believe that they absorbed a good bit of information. The students did ask some good questions that I could not answer. In the future, I need to be ready for these types of questions. Also, it will be key to stifle time-wasting questions from the students. Below are my unique learners quizzes. Today I am far more enthused about what they learned. My advanced and average learners both scored eighty percent, and my struggling learner wasnt far

behind. Im glad they were able to define the terms with that much accuracy.