UNIVERSIDAD MARIANO GALVEZ

FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS
Microteaching Lesson Plan 2014
Instructor: Jaime Emmanuel Gmez Vliz

Date: 20/09/14

Course Title: Social Studies

Grade 10th

Unit: Cold War events

Specific Topic: Cuban Missile Crisis

Competence:
Understands and recognizes the Cold War's Cuban missile crisis in all contexts by creating a mind map of the
world leaders involved in the event, their role and how the crisis was resolved.
Rationale:
World peace is hard to keep and students should realize that world leaders have a responsibility together
with society to maintain peace and order.
Lesson Content:

TIME
Instructional Procedures
a.

Warm-up
Teacher loads into the computer one of the following web pages and students solve together any of
the following flash educational games.
http://englishflashgames.blogspot.com/2010/11/action-verbs-game.html
http://englishflashgames.blogspot.com/2008/06/animals-memory-game.html

5 min

b. Teaching procedures
Presentation:
1. Teacher asks if anyone knows what is a world war.
2. Teacher explains what a world war is and the consequences.
3. Teacher plays the video: Cuban missile crisis. Students are instructed to pay close attention to the
video as a questionnaire will be answered afterwards.

8 min

Controlled practice:
1. Students use their tablet to answer the online questionnaire in testmoz.com

5 min

Semi controlled practice:

1. Students gather into groups of four.
2. Teacher hands over worksheet with one question that they should research the information using
their tablets.
3. Students answer the question by discussion. The answer must not exceed 8 lines of text.
4. Students present their question and answer in front of the class.

10 min

Free practice:
1. Teacher shows a presentation about the world leaders involved in the Cuban missile crisis.
2. Students use their tablets to create a mind map about: The world leaders involved in the Cuban
missile crisis and what was their role. Using the bubble.us website.
3. Students share and explain their mind maps.

c.

Closure:
1. Teacher shows the video: Duck and Cover.
2. Teacher explains that the video was used to help people keep calm making them believe that by
doing that the nuclear bomb may not hurt them.

3 min

d.

Feedback:
1. Each group shares their thoughts about what was learned.

2 min

e.

Formative/Summative check:
Formative check for the essay question using rubrics for answering essay type questions.
Formative check for the mind map using rubrics for mind map creation.
Testmoz test grades automatically.

f.

Student Participation:
T/S interaction.
g. Homework:

Evaluation Procedures:
Formative rubrics for essay questions.
Formative rubrics for mind map creation.
Online test hosted at testmoz.com

Materials and Aids:

12 min