Lesson Plan #1

Grade: 3 Social Studies Strand: History

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EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

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B. Summary of the Lesson Plan:

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As a class, we will read a story about going west. After we read the story, students will create a writing piece of what it would have been like to travel west. Students should be able to successfully explain what life was back then compared to now. (pages 160-161) C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 3rd Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 Minutes Groupings: Whole Group and Individual

D. Materials: Social Studies Book Paper Pencil

E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards o H2.4.2 Describe the experiences of pioneers moving west. I will be able to write a paper on how it was like to move to the west side of the country. Student-Friendly Standards

F. Vocabulary (pages 160-162) Transportation the way people and things are carried from one place to another. Steam engine a machine that turned steam into power. Railroad tracks with two steel rails on which trains move. Telegraph - a machine that sent signals by electricity.

G. Procedure: 1. Explain: a car today can travel over 60 miles an hour. Long ago, there were no cars and few roads. People on food might need a whole day to travel just 15 miles. 2. Call Students Attention: to a timeline that I created for the class to review. Providing a

visual will help as we read.

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3. Identify & Discuss: as a class we will read pages 160-163 4. Introduce: Vocabulary a. (transportation, steam engine, railroad and telegraph) 5. Challenge: Display morse code symbols (page 162)

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Have students write a sentence in morse code that tells about something they learned in this lesson.

6. Ask questions to the class: (page 161) In early 1800s how did people usually arrive in St. Louis? What did Robert Fulton Make? How was the steam engine important to railroads?

H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding? I will use the whole group discussion as an informal assessment of who was following along when we were reading the story. Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. The story will give me the best idea of how the students understood the concept.
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I. Closure:

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After reading as a class, discussing different types of transportations in the 1800s and sending messages through morse code, students will create a story independently. It could be like a journal entry, pretending they were a child that lived in the 1800s and they are telling us what it was like to move west. Another option is that they write a mini story of how they feel it was like to live and move west.

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? Reading the story with the whole class will be the easiest part to teacher. 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? Trying to explain how life was back in the 1800s. Also, having the students try to formulate their own ideas and expressing them. 3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson? The next lesson is a geography lesson, mostly on the St. Louis area and traveling west. I will follow up with the students if they remembered which way people traveled. Then we can see how many miles it took for them to travel west. 4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts? I can see which part they are struggling on and see where I need to change or go over. Depending on which part they are struggling on depends on what I will need to do. 5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? I might change some of the vocabulary words. Just because some of them are not too relevant. But I also think some could be added. 6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? Finding the right things to add to the lesson plan. I wanted to make sure I covered the whole lesson and that students will want to enjoy learning about history.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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