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Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration

Big Ideas

Essential Questions

PA/Common
Core/Standards

Objective
Bloom's Taxonomy
Webb's Depth of
Knowledge (DOK)

Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence

DETAILS
Rachel Mueller
United States History
3rd grade
Cooperative Learning
Lesson with Technology
There are many important
people who have
impacted the United
States!
Who is your President?
What Fun Facts have you
found?
How was he important to
the United States?
8.2.3.A: Identify the social,
political, cultural, and
economic contributions
of individuals and
groups from
Pennsylvania.
Using the Fun Fact sheet
and teacher approved
websites the students
in pairs will be able to
learn more about one
of the 50 presidents
within 100 percent
accuracy.
Using the information
found, the students
will individually write
an informative
paragraph on the
President.
Formative (in groups and
individually)
The students will be
informally assesed
through observation by
the teacher. The
teacher will monitor

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the room and make

sure that everyone is
on task and doing what
they need to be doing,
specifially while
searching the internet
for Fun Facts.
The students will be
formally assessed
when they are filling
out their Who Was
worksheet together
with peers. They will
need to collect correct
data on their President
and fill out the
worksheet accordingly.

Summative (individually)
The students will be
individually assessed
at the end (summative)
when they are asked to
write an informative
paragraph about their
President, based upon
what they learned from
their research and
what they know now.
ISTE Standards for
Students
Framework for 21st
Century Learning

The students will be able

to interact,
collaborate, and
publish with peers Fun
Facts about the
President that they
received.
The students will be able
to plan and manage
the current activity to
complete a paragraph
of the facts they
learned and
researched.
The students will be able

to use digital tools to

gather information on
their President.

Accommodations,
Modifications

The lesson allows for

accomadations to be
made due to it being a
coopertive learning
lesson. The students
will be placed with a
partner by the teacher
based upon intellectual
ability. The teacher
will strategical pair the
students off based
upon ability, allowing
for an immense
learning opportunity.
Students whom may
require specific
accomodations or
modifications, the
teacher will check their
IEP to adjust
appropriately.

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-byStep Procedures

RATIONALE for the
Learning Plan
Introduction

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Activating Prior Knowledge:
To activite prior
knowledge the teacher
will ask the students
Who thinks they can
name to most

presidents? The
teacher will then call
upon one student to
try and name as many
as they can.
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory
Set:
The students will then
watch a President
Song, this video is
from YouTube and is a
great interactive video
that allows for
students to hear all the
Presidents and check if
they knew all of them.
https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?
v=hTiHP3WsU6I
Groups/ Partners
The students will be
grouped by the
teacher. They will be
in Partners for this
lesson.
Depending on class
size, the teacher will
group the partners
based upon ability, for
example low-high or
high-low students will
be together.
Responsibilites of Partners:
The pairs will have the
responsibilty of
researching the
President that they
choose out of random.
They will have to stay
on task and take
responsibilty of their
pair. Each person will
have the task of

determining what to
write on the Fun Fact
sheet and coming to a
consensus with their
partner.
Room Arrangment:
The room/ desks will be
arranged so the
students can see each
other eye to eye. They
will be sitting next to
each other so they can
visually see one
another and what their
partner is finding
online.
Explicit Instructions

Big Idea Statement

There are many
important people who
have impacted the
United States!
Essential Questions
Statement
There are many
important people who
have impacted the
United States!
Objective Statement
Using the Fun Fact
sheet and teacher
approved websites the
students in pairs will
be able to learn more
about one of the 50
presidents within 100
percent accuracy.
Using the information
found, the students
will individually write
an informative
paragraph on the
President.

Lesson Procedure

Key Vocabulary
Presidents
United States of
America
Pre-Assessment of Students
The students will be
Pre-Assessed during
the opening of the
lesson, they will be
asked who can name
the most Presidents.
STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE
The teacher will ask, "Who
can name the most
Presidents of the
United States?
The teacher will then tell
the students to listen
carefully to a YouTube
video, the video names
all 50 presidents and
also shows a picture of
the President.
The teacher will then pair
the students together
based upon ability.
The teacher will come
around and have the
pairs pick randomly
out of a hat or pull
sticks out of a cup, to
decide what President
they are to research.
As one person from the
pair is picking the
President, the other is
to retrieve the Fun Fact
(Who Was) Worksheet
for both students in
the pair.
Once everyone has their
President and their
worksheet, the teacher

will write on the board

the two websites that
will give them the
information they need
to find.
http://www.usa4kids.com/p
residents/George_Wash
ington.html
http://uspresidents.net/
The teacher should review
with the students that
they are to be on these
websites or
informational websites
only or they will lose
the right to be on the
internet.
The pairs will have around
8-10 minutes,
depending, to fill out
the Fun Fact sheet.
Once the Fun Fact sheet is
filled out, one person
from each pair will
share with the class,
who their President
was and one fact they
found interesting.
The students will be
directed to close their
computers and return
to their original seats.
Once all students are
seated, the teacher
will explain that they
are to write one
paragraph individually
about their President,
using the Fun Fact
sheet. The teacher will
also provide a
Paragraph Rubric that
has basic
requirements.
Students will have the
remainder of the

period to work on the

paragraph, if not
completed in class, it is
homework and it will
be collected as an
individual
asssessment.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=hTiHP3WsU6I

Reading Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies

Evaluation of the
Learning/Mastery of
the Concept

President Names on paper

so students can
randomly draw
Computers or Ipads for
students to search
internet for Fun Facts
President Websites
http://uspresidents.net/
http://www.usa4kids.com/p
residents/George_Wash
ington.html
Formal Evaluation
(Summative)
The students will be
formally assessed
when they are to write
their paragraph about
the President, using
their Fun Fact sheet.
This is will be done
individually.
The Fun Fact Sheet will be
collected with the
paragraph, which will
also be used as an
assessment.
Informal Evaluation
(Formative)
The informal evaluation
will be done when the
students are in pairs
and are guided to fill

out the Fun Fact sheet

on their President.
The teacher will also
monitor the room to
make sure everyone is
on task.
The students will also be
asked to share their
President and one
interesting fact they
learned throughout
their research.

Closure

Teacher
Self-reflection

Summary & Review of the

Learning
Once the students are
done researching their
President, the teacher
will ask each pair to
share one Fun Fact
about their President
that they thought was
interesting.
Homework/Assignments
Tell your parents or
guardians about your
president, read your
paragraph to them and
have them sign it!