SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas

Essential
Questions

PA/Common
Core/Standards

DETAILS
Grace Smith
Pennsylvania Geography
Grade 1
15-20 minutes
A map is a representation of places to help us known
where we are and find our way around.

Standard - 7.1.1.A: Identify geographic tools.

o Students will use the homemade map to follow the
directions leading to a treasure. Later students will
make their own map using knowledge learned from the
reading and activity combined.
Standard - 7.1.1.B: Describe places in geographic reference
in physical features.
o Students will be able to determine the direction and
distance of a location from another.
Standard - 7.1.K.A: Interpret a simple map of a known
environment.
o Students will make a map of their own home.
Standard - CC.1.2.1.B: Ask and answer questions about key
details in a text.
o Students will answer questions throughout the reading
of the text with 100% accuracy.

Objective

Bloom's
Taxonomy

Webb's Depth of
Knowledge
(DOK)
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence

What is a map?
How do you read a map?
How do we follow directions to move from one place to
another?

TSWBAT actively listen to a book and answer questions

throughout with 100% accuracy.
TSWBAT read a homemade map and follow the
directions provided (5) that will eventually lead them to
a treasure.

Formative:
After reading the book the teacher will find a surprise
note (left by the pirates)! The students must help the
teacher decipher the meaning of the note and the item
that was left with it (the map) and how they will use it
to find the treasure. The teacher will prompt the
students by asking questions. The student to answer
each question correctly will get to open the next clue.

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

Summative:
Students will make a map of their house. The students
will be able to answer questions about their map and
the different places of their homes when asked by a
teacher. The students will be given a worksheet with
questions asking how many bedrooms, bathrooms,
hallways, windows are in their homes, and whether or
not they have a dining room. After the students answer
these questions on their own the teacher will take a poll
to find the average of each question among all of the
students in the class.
Engage students with the real world data, tools, and
experts they will encounter in college, on the job, and
in life--students learn best when actively engaged in
solving meaningful problems.
Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders:
A positive behavior support will be put in place by using
the hidden treasure. If a student is off task or is not
following directions they can lose their chance of
receiving a Hersheys Bar when they are finished with
their work.
Students will be required to respond to questions
throughout the reading to help to make sure that
everyone stays on task.

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

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Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

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Activating Prior Knowledge
Friends, can you tell me what we know about Pirates?
Prompt the students to arrive at an agreement that
pirates use treasure maps to find hidden treasures
(booty).
Have you, or your parents, ever used a map to find a
certain place?
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Show the students the book and ask them what they
think they will be doing today. Give each student an eye
patch, today, we are pretending that we are pirates in

search of a hidden treasure that is right here in our

classroom!
Explicit
Instructions

Lesson
Procedure

Big Idea Statement

A map is a representation of places and directions that
help us get from point A to point B.
Essential Questions Statement
What is a map?
How is used?
Objective Statement
TSWBAT actively listen to a book and answer questions
throughout with 100% accuracy.
TSWBAT read a homemade map and follow the
directions provided (5) that will eventually lead them to
a treasure.
Transition
Students will return to their seats after the treasure has
been discovered. The students will be asked to begin
their maps and answer the questions on the page at
their desk. When each student is finished they can raise
their hand to have their answers checked and receive
their treasure (Hershey Bar).
Key Vocabulary
Map: A document used to represent places to help us
know where we are and find our way around
Left:
Right
Direction: A course that someone or something follows
PreAssessment of Students
This will occur during the teachers Activating Prior
Knowledge
Modeling of the Concept
1. The teacher will read the book to the students and ask
questions throughout. The teacher will read the first clue
and then have the students figure out the rest, using
subtle prompts and directions.
2. The teacher will show the students a map of her own
home that she constructed before instructing them to
make their own.
3. The teacher will answer the questions on her own
questionnaire with the help of the class as a group.
Guiding the Practice
The teacher will read the book
The teacher will prompt each clue
The Transition will occur
The 3rd Modeling of the Concept will occur
The teacher will instruct students to make their own
maps using the Doodle Buddy application and fill out
their own question sheets

The Independent Practice will occur

Students will gather the information listen on their
sheets and compare the answers of fellow classmates in
a large group discussion in order to determine the
average of each category in the survey. The Closing
will occur

Providing the Independent Practice

Students will create a map of their home independently.
Using the map students will answer the questions on
their worksheets.
At home, students will work on direction and map
fluency with a parent or guardian.
Transition
The students will have time to eat their Hershey Bars
during the video about chocolate production in Hershey
Pennsylvania.
Reading
How I Became a Pirate, Written by Melinda Long
Materials
Note from the pirate
Technology
Eye Patches
Equipment
Clues
Supplies
Treasure
iPads- Doodle Buddy application downloaded
Worksheet/Questionnaire
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
The teacher will walk around the room and check to
Learning/Master
make sure that all students have completed their maps.
y of the
Upon completion the teacher will collect the students
Concept
map, but leave the questionnaire at his/her desk. The
students will receive a Hershey Bar when they are
finished with their maps and work sheets.
Informal Evaluation
The students will answer questions about the text and
help the teacher find the hidden treasure. Students who
answer a question correctly or discover a new direction
will open read the next clue.
Closure

Summary & Review of the Learning

After the class has tallied up the averages for the
questions on the questionnaire and found the averages,
the students will be given the treasure (Hersheys Bars).
The teacher can show a brief video about chocolate
production from Hershey.
Homework/Assignments
A parent or guardian will sign a slip telling the teacher that the
student practiced mapping and directional skills at home.
Give children clues to find household items


Teacher
Self-reflection

Use clues while children are doing household chores with

a reward of a treasure to be found when finished