ED 345 Calvin College Teacher Intern Lesson Plan Template

Teacher Intern: Katie Fasse Date: 11/19/18

Grade Level: 1st Subject/ Topic: History
Approx. time spent planning this lesson: 45 minutes *The template will expand as text is added.*
DOMAIN 1: PLANNING & PREPARATION
Main Focus/Essential Questions: How family life was different in the past and in the present
Brief Context: The students have already done some work with completing their family trees. Now we will transititon
into thinking about family life and how that has changed over the years.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills: life in the past and present
Lesson Objectives/Learning Targets Aligned Assessments
Consider formative & summative tools
Please number objectives and the aligned assessment measures.
The learner will: I will assess learning by:
1. Compare and contrast life in the past 1. Their responses for the t-chart

Standards Addressed in Lesson: (Include full standard.)

1 – H2.0.3 Investigate a family history for at least two generations, identifying various members and their connections in
order to tell a narrative about family life.
1 – H2.0.4 Retell in sequence important ideas and details from stories about families or schools.
1 – H2.0.6 Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication.
Instructional Resources:
When I was young in the mountains by cynthia rylant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA3dS3lIeDc
Consideration of Learners:
How have you responded to your diverse learners? Consider UDL (Multiple means of Engagement, Representation,
Action & Expression) & principles of differentiation. If appropriate, identify individual accommodations you will make
in response to needs or interests of students.

I have responded to my diverse learners. We will start with watching a video of a book being read. Then we will talk
about the book and different things that happened in the book. The book talks a bit about family life in the past and we
will make a T-chart of the differences. We will also talk about the order of events in the book.

DOMAIN 2: THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

COVENANT MANAGEMENT: Relationship & community building questioning, positivity

CONDUCT MANAGEMENT: (Behavioral expectations, strategies to encourage self- regulation, etc.)

Identify at least 2 ways you will gain whole group attention: clapping, counting, “knock knock”
Strategies you intend to use to redirect individual students: saying name, taking chips, sending back

CONTENT MANAGEMENT: watching something on the screen

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: will be sitting in front of the screen and then in circle

DOMAIN 3: INSTRUCTION
CONTENT MANAGEMENT: YOUR INSTRUCTION
Motivation/Opening/Intro: ( 7 minutes)
- Ask students to go and sit in front of the screen
 - Say that I will show you a video of a woman reading a book
- We are going to talk about this book afterwards and think about how the person in the books life is different
from our own lives
- watch the video of When I was young in the mountains
- pause the video and ask the students what they think the jonny house is
- after the video pull up a picture of okra and explain that this is the vegetable that the family was eating
- this vegetable is very good for you apparently
Development: (20 minutes)
- start singing “criss cross..”
- we made family trees a little while ago
- do you think that some of your grandparents could have had a life like what was talked about in the book?
- Why or why not
- Life wasn’t always like how it is right now
- Remember when we talked a bit about letters and phones
- Your grandparents could have had lives very similar to this
- Lets make a T-chart
- I am going to put the past on one side and the present on the other
- Can any of you think about things that happened in the book that are things that you don’t do today?
- List what the students say maybe 6 things or so
- Now lets think about life right now in the present
- What is something that we do that the family in the past didn’t do?
- List what students say and again maybe 6 or so items
- Now close your eyes
- Think about the life in the book
- If you think that you would like to live a life like the person in the book raise your hand
- Open your eyes
- So and so, why do you want to life in the past?
- Student answers
- So and so, why do you want to life in the present?
- Student answers
- Family is still very important in both the past and the present right!

Closure: (3 minutes)
- There is one last idea that I want to leave you with
- Something that the book talked about was the schoolhouse also being the church
- This is something that we are going to talk a bit more about tomorrow
- I have another book planned for you!
- I do have some extra homework for you
- I want you to ask your parents or your grandparents how life was when they were your age
- I look forward to hearing responses tomorrow

DOMAIN #4: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM: Please note recent evidence of your efforts as a professional.

REFLECTION AFTER TEACHING THE LESSON: