INQUIRY (5E) LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Teachers: Subject: Grade:

Wesley Nelson History (Pre-Civil War) 8th
Common Core State Standards:
 6.C4.1 Explain challenges and opportunities people and groups face when solving local,
regional, and/or global problems.
 6.H2.1 Evaluate the causes and effects of conflict and resolution among different societies
and cultures
Objective (Explicit):
 Students will explore the events of present day issues of hate and answer the driving
question, “why do people hate?” with their own ideas
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
 Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
 Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
 Assign value to each portion of the response

 Students will first answer the question, “why do people hate?” and talk about it in their
groups
 Students will look at some present day issues and talk about where the hate originated and
what is different in the time of the pre civil war
Sub-Objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex)
 How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
 What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
 How is this objective relative to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

 Students will speak with their groups and have an active discussion on the events that drive
hate in the present day and why they believe hate originated and relates to pre civil war
Key vocabulary: hate, present day, pre civil war Materials: laptops, notebooks
Engage
 How will you activate prior knowledge?
 How will you hook student attention?
 What question will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
 Start the discussion and provide examples  Answer the question, "why do people
of present day issues that involve hate hate?" using their on own beliefs
 Work in groups to facilitate learning on
why hate is around today and how they
relate to the pre civil war era
Explore
 How will you model your performance expectations? (Remember you are not modeling what you want students to discover but need to
model expected behavior or required procedures.)
 How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer the question posed in the
Engage?
 What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are “exploring”?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
 Give clear and concise directions on the  Explore with their groups with the
objectives on today scenarios given
 Showcase an example on what their  The materials will be provided to them
discussion might look like
  Why do people hate?

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Explain
 How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
 How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
 How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by answering the question from the
Engage before moving on?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
 Participate in the group and class
 Facilitate the discussion between the discussions and explain their findings
different groups of the class
 Use the different scenarios that groups got
Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Elaborate
 How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a particular aspect of this
learning at a deep level?
 How will students use higher order thinking at this stage (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a What If? Question)?
 How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

 This learning will apply to the type of  Take this learning and apply it to the
research they will be conducting in the upcoming project
coming weeks  Take the good and bad they learned
 Showcasing how it is supposed to be done and apply it to future content
in the future
Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Evaluate
 How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the elaborate content)?
 How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the assessment)?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

 Based on participation in this instance  Be able to answer in the discussion with

the group, class, and teacher
 Participate with each other to facilitate a
discussion