Lesson Plan Guide

Teacher Candidate:

Keandria Bean __

Date:

05/01/2015

Grade and Topic:

2nd grade Social Studies

Length of Lesson:

Mentor Teacher:

Dr. Annette Cornelius___

School: University of Memphis-IDT 3600_

2 days

UNIT/CHAPTER OBJECTIVE/GENERALIZATION/BIG IDEA:

The unit objective for this lesson is for the students to be able to research the most interesting person they
choose to create their project on and tell about their significance and history.
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
By completing this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate their reading
comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and
critical analysis
The students are expected to research important people using a computer and collect information to
create a biography presentation with 100% accuracy.
STANDARDS ADDRESSED:

2.32 Participate in shared research using biographies to interpret the significance of contributions made by people
of the United States, recounting or describing key ideas and details from the texts.

MATERIALS:
Computer
History Book
Handout

BACKGROUND and RATIONALE:

The key concepts for this lesson is to have the students gain as much knowledge as possible about the
importance of certain people that lived in this world and made difference for everyone of us.
What is the critical academic language (general and technical) that must be addressed in this lesson?
This lesson connect with one of the readings they were assigned on significant events people were involved in
to make them important in history last week for homework. This was getting them ready and prepared on what
to expect from this lesson.

PROCEDURES AND TIMELINE:

Introduction: To open up my lesson plan, the students will open their books to the chapter I would be teaching
my lesson from and there, they will see a list of 10 important people. Going over the list I will talk about each
person along with a slideshow presentation to show pictures and videos.
Procedures:
1. The first step after going over the first part of my lesson, the students are going to be handed
worksheets to complete before getting on the computer for their research.
2. After each student completes the handout thoroughly, they will then be headed to the computer lab
for research. The research will be on their favorite important person they chose from the list that they
felt more interested in.
3. While researching they will fill in information on the second page of the handout

4. The next day we will spend the first 35 minutes in the computer lab for the students to complete their
biography presentation.

Closure: To close my lesson, each student will come present in front of the class and will be graded by me with
a rubric I created for them.

ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:
CATEGORY

Enthusiasm

Facial expressions and

body language generate
a strong interest and
enthusiasm about the
topic in others.

Facial expressions and

body language
sometimes generate a
strong interest and
enthusiasm about the
topic in others

Facial expressions and

body language are used
to try to generate
enthusiasm, but seem
somewhat faked.

Very little use of facial

expressions or body
language. Did not
generate much interest
in topic being presented.

Comprehension

Student is able to
accurately answer
almost all questions
posed by classmates
about the topic.

Student is able to
accurately answer most
questions posed by
classmates about the
topic.

Student is able to
accurately answer a few
questions posed by
classmates about the
topic.

Student is unable to
accurately answer
questions posed by
classmates about the
topic.

Preparedness

Student is completely
prepared and has
obviously rehearsed.

Student seems pretty

prepared but might have
needed a couple more
rehearsals.

The student is
somewhat prepared, but
it is clear that rehearsal
was lacking.

Student does not seem

at all prepared to
present.

Listens to Other
Presentations

Listens intently. Does

not make distracting
noises or movements.

Listens intently but has

one distracting noise or
movement

Sometimes does not

appear to be listening
but is not distracting.

Sometimes does not

appear to be listening
and has distracting
noises or movements.

Content

Shows a full
understanding of the
topic.

Shows a good
understanding of the
topic.

Shows a good
understanding of parts
of the topic.

Does not seem to

understand the topic
very well.

Biography Presentation Hand-Out

Directions: Complete this chart after our Readings. Choose your top 3 people in
history from what we discussed. Write the significance of each person in one box and
why you chose them in the second box. Then once completed, go over what you wrote
and choose 1 to do your project on and present about.

Person #1

Significance

Why you chose

them

Person #2

Person #3

Biography Research Fill-in Sheet

Directions: Fill in this box completely while doing your research and answer every
question. This information will be used for your Biography project presentation. Place
this information in your prezi slideshow.
*Adding on extra information to your prezi slideshow will be fine. Just make sure it
stays in the time limit.

Person:
Full Name:
Date of Birth and or Death:
3 Things on why he/she are important:

1.
2.
3.

Do we still benefit from them today? If

so, why?

SAMPLE OF STUDENTS WORK: http://prezi.com/wusmqth_gpqp/?

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