James Madison University College of Education

Social Studies Lesson Plan Format

Name: Laura Bionde Date: 9/20/16
Subject/Class: USII Grade Level: 7 Topic: Industry
Concept: Revolution
Learning Goals:
Overarching Understanding: Students will understand that revolution has both positive and negative
effects.
LG 1.0: Students will recognize the Captains of Industry roles in the Revolution.
Essential Question(s):
1. Who were the Captains of Industry and how did they get that title?
2. What industry did each man control and how did he control it?
3. What did each Captain of Industry choose to do with their fortune?
SOLs:
USII. 4d: The student will demonstrate knowledge of how life changed after the Civil War by
d) Explaining the impact of new inventions, the rise of big business, the growth of industry, and life on
American farms.
Your own written objectives (U/K, D, Values) Your assessment: formative and
summative
U: Students will understand that the Captains of Industry Formative: Gravestones will be
had important roles in industry. presented and collected. Exit pass
collected

K: Students will know about the life and legacy of
Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
D: Students will be able to analyze artifacts relating to
the Captains of Industry.
Formative: Gravestones will be presented
and collected.
Formative: Artifact analyzing worksheet,
gone over and collected.

D: Students will be able to research and design a Formative: Gravestones will be presented
gravestone for one of the Captains of Industry. and collected.

Dept. of Middle, Secondary, and Math Education

modified by Dr. Cude 1/15
Instructional Plan:
Type of activity; What the Teacher/Student Will Do/Say:
timing
The teacher will present the students will four artifacts: oil, deposit slips, paperwork from
Hook freight train shipments and a piece of steel. The teacher will ask the students to work with their
group to fill out the artifact worksheet. The groups will then share what they believe each
10 minutes artifact to be and how it relates to our unit of study.
The teacher will then show short video clips about the 4 captains of industry. The teacher will
Instruction present specific facts about each Captain of industry for the students to fill in to their graphic
10 organizer. She will hold up the artifacts as they match with the captain of industry to help the
students remember.
Activity The teacher will provide a direction sheet to each student explaining they will be making a
23 gravestone for their assigned Captain of Industry. The students will pick out of a hat their
individual and follow directions in using their notes/research on chrome books to make a
gravestone. Once completed, students will get together in groups with others who have
different gravestones, and present to each other. These will be hung in the room in a Captains
of Industry Graveyard
If It Never Happened Exit Pass: Students will respond to: If______________ had never been
Closure born, how would things be different. They are to select one man studied that day and answer.
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Materials Needed for the Lesson:
Chrome Books
Graveyard Handout and template
Colored pencils
Exit pass
Note guide
PowerPoint
Bibliography/Resources Used:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/frameworks/history_socialscience_framewks/2008/2008_final/framewk
s_ushist1865-present.pdf
Adaption/Differentiation:

ELL/struggling In order to reach my ELL and struggling reader group, I will provide note
readers sheets that have more filled in than the rest of the class. This will help them
to not fall behind as we move through the information on the slides. I will
allow for struggling readers to discuss their gravestone in a small group if
needed.
In this lesson, students will get the opportunity to move around and have
ADHD hands on experience. This will help my ADHD students in that they will be
able to handle the materials, and not simply learn about them through
lecture.
My gifted students can be provided with a note guide that has more blanks
Gifted in it so that they will be filling in most of the notes on their own as if there
was no note guide.
Dept. of Middle, Secondary, and Math Education
modified by Dr. Cude 1/15
Dept. of Middle, Secondary, and Math Education
modified by Dr. Cude 1/15