Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: 4th Grade Social Studies

Topic: Cultural Heritage
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
Social Studies: 4.C.1 Understand the impact of
various cultural groups on North Carolina

Central Focus: Identifying and determining the meaning of new

terminology about our states cultural heritage

Date submitted:
Date taught:
Writing: W.4.7 Conduct short research projects to
build knowledge through investigation of different
aspects of a topic
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to use their online dictionary to look up social studies vocabulary words
and place the definition behind the correct word in the graphic organizer. Based on these new definitions, students will be
able to make a list of 2-3 examples in the graphic organizer adjacent to the definition.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary):
Functioning:
Academic Vocabulary
Tradition something handed down from generation to generation
Settler a person who comes to live in a new country
Native American the first people who inhabited North America
Value a quality considered worthwhile
Culture the way of life of a group of people
Heritage something that comes or belongs to one by reason of
birth
Ethnic group people from the same place who speak the same
language and share customs
Diversity the state or quality of being different or varied
Prior Knowledge: Students should have some idea of what cultural heritage is. They should also know how to use their
online dictionaries to find definitions and examples of the vocabulary words.
Activity

Description of Activities and Setting

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of Objective
for Student
3. Teacher Input

Have students go over the learning targets

o Historians effectively converse about our states cultural
heritage by understanding specific terms and definitions
o Stop and go over the word converse (discuss), terms (word),
cultural heritage (everyone has it)
Students know that we read this aloud together and that we will
dissect the target as we go
Tell students, Today we are going to be using our online dictionaries to look
up the definitions of our new terms that I am about to give you and putting
them in our social studies notebooks. Remember it is important for us to keep
a running record of any new vocabulary words so that we can look up again
for later use.
Students will be given two yellow pieces of paper each and told to
fold them hamburger style
They will be asked to put one piece inside the other and then cut them
in the middle but dont fully split them in half
Then do it again to each half to make fourths
Carefully pull the pages apart and set one aside
One the first graphic organizer we are going to put the words
tradition, settler, Native American and value. On the second organizer

Time
5-10
minutes

3-5
minutes

10-15
minutes

we will put the words culture, heritage, ethnic group and diversity.
For each of these words have the students chunk them with you for
spelling purposes
5-10
Show students that they are going to look up these words on their
minutes
dictionaries and match the definitions as best they can, before gluing
them down have them self check with an answer key
Show students which side to glue the definition onto
On the adjacent side explain that they are going to write down
examples for each word
o Ex. Heritage is the traditions, achievements, beliefs, etc., that
are part of the history of a group or nation an example would
be that part of my heritage is Italian, and its a big
achievement when the young girls start learning how to cook
and bake with their mothers and grandmother
15-20
Have students look up words on their computers and match the
minutes
definitions as best they can
Remind them that if they get stuck on a word to skip it for now and
come back to it at the end
Once they have checked for the correct definition have them glue the
definitions down, then give their examples and finally glue the
organizer into their notebooks
Formative: teacher questioning throughout the lesson
Summative: collect students journals and determine mastery based on the following
criteria:
Correct definitions
Provided at lease two examples of each term
Have students share a few things they learned today about either the terms or
5 minutes
even about themselves.

4. Guided Practice

5. Independent Practice

6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:

7. Closure
8. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills:

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations

Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations:

For struggling writers, have them work with a partner on
looking up definitions and writing down examples
Early finishers: have them work on any unfinished work they
may have in their folders, if all work is finished have students
free read

Materials/Technology:
Doc cam
Two sheets of yellow paper for each student
One sheet of definitions for each student
Several answer keys for students to check their work
Glue sticks
Scissors
Resources used:
Ms. Wilsons lesson plan observation
Reflection on lesson:

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