Lesson Plan Guide

Teacher Candidate: Kristen Parker, Robin Perkins, Tiffany Taylor, Tressy Crutchfield Grade and Topic: Grade 4, Social Studies Mentor Teacher: Fair Josey Date: 4/24/14

Length of Lesson: 1 hour School: University of Memphis Campus School

UNIT/CHAPTER OBJECTIVE/GENERALIZATION/BIG IDEA:

The students will research historical events leading up to the civil war.

LESSON OBJECTIVE:
Given a WebQuest and access to the Internet, the student will research events leading up to the civil war and complete a worksheet with 100% accuracy.

Student Participation The goal of this lesson is for students to demonstrate a clear understanding of the important historical events that led up to the civil war. Students will complete a short worksheet and place a historical event given to them onto the timeline in the correct year it took place.

STANDARDS ADDRESSED:
State Standards SPI 4.6.2 Determine how the issues of slavery caused political and economical tensions between government policies and peoples beliefs (i.e. abolitionists, plantation owners, state rights, and central government). SPI 4.5.3 Interpret a timeline that depicts major historical pre civil war events. ISTE Standards 3. Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. d. Process data and report results.

MATERIALS:
Materials Used: Computer Weebly WebQuest Internet Access to: American Civil War http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/causes.html Civil War Timeline http://www.civil-war.net/pages/timeline.asp Colored paper

Technology Integration Students will use a WebQuest to have access to links to the websites listed above, and, also, to read valuable information about events leading up to the civil war. The websites listed above will be used to answer questions in the worksheet given to them.

BACKGROUND and RATIONALE:

Students will demonstrate a clear understanding of the important historical events that led up to the civil war by completing the worksheet given to them and finding out what year their event occurred. Academic Language is not addressed in IDT 3600. This lesson is a continuation of TN Social Studies standard 4. There will not be any subsequent lessons. I am aware that the lesson will be differentiated for students who did not master the objectives and for those ready for enrichment. However, modifications are not covered in this course and are not part of this particular lesson.

PROCEDURES AND TIMELINE:

Introduction: Begin by introducing the lesson for the day. Discuss and review the leading questions at the beginning of the WebQuest. Give students a few minutes to answer out loud in turns the leading questions. Watch video on Pre Civil War. Read over the introductory paragraph with students. Discuss directions for the rest of WebQuest. Handout timeline events.

Procedures:
Prior to the Computer (10 minutes) Teacher Procedures: 1. After introducing the lesson, discuss the leading questions out loud with the students. Ask them briefly if they have any prior knowledge of events leading up to the Civil War. 2. Watch video and explain directions for the class period. 3. Handout timeline events. Student Procedures: 1. Students will follow along on the WebQuest with the teacher. 2. They will answer the leading questions to the best of their ability and then watch the video provided. 3. Students will take the timeline event strip given to them and place it to the side until needed.

At the Computer (30 minutes) Teacher Procedures: 1. Have students open their WebQuest on their computer. 2. Monitor and assist students as needed.

Student Procedures: 1. Students will open the WebQuest provided to them on the computer. 2. They will read through the information provided. 3. They will visit the different website links and use those links to answer questions on the worksheet. 4. They will then look through the last slides of the WebQuest to find the event given to them and find the date that the event occurred. 5. If they finish and have time, they will complete a crossword puzzle containing vocabulary from the lesson.

After the Computer (20 minutes) Teacher Procedures: 1. Call on students to come up to the board to put their timeline strips onto the timeline paper in the correct order by date. 2. Ask for volunteers to talk about something new they learned from the lesson. 3. Wrap up lesson and ask for any final questions.

Student Procedures: 1. The students will wait until they are called on and then they will correctly place their event on the timeline provided. 2. Students will discuss out loud different things they learned from the lesson. 3. Students will ask any other questions they may have pertaining to the lesson

Closure: Students will come up to the pre-made timeline one at a time and place their event given to them at the beginning of class onto the correct date. After this is done, the teacher will ask for volunteers to talk about what the students learned from the lesson. Before the students leave, the teacher will poll the class for any last minute questions.

ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:

Name: ____________________________________

Date: _____________________

What caused the American Civil War? Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct answer 1. There were many reasons for a Civil War to happen in America, and political issues and disagreements began soon after the American Revolution ended in 1782. 2. One of the most emotional issues between the North and South was slavery. 3. Before the invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney, it took one person all day to process two pounds of cotton by hand, a slow and inefficient method. 4. Slavery had been a part of life in America since the early colonial period and became more acceptable in the South then the North. 5. Southern planters relied on slaves to run larger farms or plantations and make them profitable. 6. Many northerners felt that slavery was uncivilized and should be abolished. They were called abolitionists and thought that owning slaves was wrong for any reason. 7. Many felt that slavery should be allowed in the new territories such as Kansas and Missouri, while others were set against it. This led to bleeding Kansas, a bitter war that pitted neighbor against neighbor. 8. What did John Brown raid the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia? In hopes of supplying weapons to an army of slaves that would revolt against their southern masters. 9. Because Southern politicians felt that their voices were not being heard in congress, some Southern states wanted to secede. 10. What did Abraham Lincoln vow to do? To keep the country united and the new western territories free from slavery.

Use your WebQuest to complete this worksheet.

Name of Event: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________

Date of Event: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Page Found On: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Using the lines below, write 2-4 sentences to describe the event given to you. Include what your event was, what happened during it, who was involved, etc.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

MODIFICATIONS:
I am aware that modifications will be made for students who did not master the objectives and for those ready for enrichment. However, modifications are not covered in this course and are not part of this particular lesson.