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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
ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning
Accommodation
s, Modifications

DETAILS
Mr. Morder
Force
3
10/6/14
30 mins
A force is required to change an objects speed or
direction

What makes the car go faster?

What makes the care turn around?
What is force?

S4.A.2.1.1
Changes in speed or direction of motion are caused by forces

A: 3rd grade class

B: Students will be able to see an increase/decrease in
the cars speed
C: Students will be able to answer all 3 essential
questions
D: The will be able to see the change in both speed and
direction
Students will be able to identify the force moving the
car
Blooms: See, Identify, explain, answer
Form: Students write what they think force means
Sum: Students will be able to explain what a force is
and that is can change an objects speed and/or
direction
Teamwork, Critical thinking,
Life skills, applies to daily life

A: Students w/ disability will have a partner who will

help them with the physical aspects of the lesson
(pushing the car)
M: Students will not have to write out explanation but
take a multiple choice quiz that explains what a force is
and what it does

CK

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Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

Lesson
Procedure

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge
Talk about riding a bike and walking.
Ask what force is.

Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Watch videos of:
Things being thrown
Riding a bike
Big Idea Statement
A force is required to change an objects speed or
direction
Essential Questions Statement
What is force?
Objective Statement
Students will be able to identify my hand as the force
thats moving the car
Transition
Act like youre driving a car to and from your seat
Key Vocabulary
Force, speed, direction
PreAssessment of Students
Write what they think force means
Modeling of the Concept
I will push a model car across a table
Guiding the Practice
They will push a car across the table
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will list different forces they can think of
Transition
Fake drive a car back to their seats
Match box cars
Journals to take observations

Reading
Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Students write an explanation of what force is and what
Learning/Master
it does to an object
y of the

Concept

Closure

Teacher
Self-reflection

Informal Evaluation
Ask the class for new examples of force in a class
discussion

Summary & Review of the Learning

Group discussion with Q and A about the car

Homework/Assignments
Students research other forces and make a list for class
the next day