Name: Adrianna Powell
Mentor Teacher's Signature & Date
Mini-Research eBook Lesson Plan 2
Real-World Activity
Title of Mini-Research eBook Lesson: What are You Thankful For?
Primary Learning Outcome (PLO):
The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:
PLO: Students will
describe the purpose of Thanksgiving and identify the people and events
of Thanksgiving.
Assessed Standards
Georgia Performance Standard (GPS)
Social Studies Performance
Standard
Grade: Kindergarten
Standard SSKH1 The student will identify the
purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events
celebrated.
d. Thanksgiving Day.
Materials and Equipment:
1. Have an example of Mini-Research eBook activity to show students
2. Sheet of unlined paper
3. Crayons and/or color markers
4. Pencil & paper (to make notes for lesson plan assessment and
reflections as well as for
student writing)
5. Modification of a lesson developed by Dr. Diane L. Judd
6. SmartBoard
Technology Connection:
Technologies that will be used in this lesson include:
Procedures:
Step One:
Introduction
Have a small group of students go to a computer. Explain to
students that you are going to use the computer to read an
Mini-Research eBook
about Thanskgiving.
List 2 or more
questions that introduce students
to your Mini-Research eBook that will establish a
connection to students' prior knowledge by asking them:
1. "Have
you ever studied or read a book about Thanksgiving?"
2. "Can you tell
me about some things you know about Thanksgiving?"
Today we are going
to read an eBook
on the Internet.
I have made a special Mini-Research eBook on the Internet for your
class. (During discussion have students turn around away from the
computer to interact.)
Estimated Time for Step One:
5 minutes
Step Two
Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes:
(Students will sit at the computer where they can control the mouse
and computer.) (Explain to students the process of the
lesson.) We are going to read my Mini-Research eBook and visit
several websites.
Check for understanding
Students with teacher assistance will read the Mini-Research eBook,
explore, and
discuss
the information in the four linking websites that go with the
Mini-Research eBook. Ask
students guiding
questions about the important concepts in the Mini-Research eBook and
the linking
websites. List four or more questions from each of your
linking websites that will guide your students to gain information for
your PLO.
1. How did the
Pilgrims get to America?
2. What did the Pilgrims see when they got here?
3.Why did the Pilgrims and the Indians celebrate for the first
Thankgiving?
4. What kinds of food did the
Pilgrims and the Indians eat for their celebration?
5. What was the Pilgrims and
Indians thankful for?
Practice and feedback related to the
PLO
Read the Mini-Research eBook project to students. Explain to
students that
they
are going to be
reporters
for their class, and they will identify the people or events of
Thanksgiving.
Tell
the
students that the information that they will need to complete
their Mini-Research eBook project is listed and connected in
the Mini-Research eBook
activity. Review the
information in the linked website in
the Mini-Research eBook activity with the students to emphasize
interesting and important information students will need to complete
mission
project.
| Let's Go Back
in Time! |
| The local news
station needs our help! The manager of the news station
needs someone to go back in time to the 1600's to report about the
First Thanksgiving! He is running low on reporters and he needs SOMEONE
to do the job! He's on a tight schedule and he needs you to tell
our
town about the Pilgrims and the Indians. We have to
get in
our time machine and we need go back in time. Quickly! Get in
before it is too late! Who do you
see? What are they doing? When you are finished, be sure to bring
all of your reports back to the manager of the new station so he can
put it on the news! |
| Lesson 2 Directions 1. I will give you each a sheet of construction paper. 2. As reporters, you have to tell me what you saw at the First Thanksgiving. You are going to draw a picture that shows an event that happened. You can draw the Pilgrims meeting together with the Indians. You can draw the Pilgrims and Indians celebrating the First Thanksgiving and giving thanks over the feast. 3. After you draw your picture, write a sentence that tells what the picture is showing. Use this link about The Thanksgiving Story to help you with the events! 4. Write another sentence about the purpose of the First Thanksgiving. Why did the First Thanksgiving occur or happen? |
[Students will write (or dictate to teacher) information to be included
in
their Mini-Research eBook
project.
While
students are completing Mini-Research eBook project, teacher
will observe students and give assistance when needed.]
Step Three
Closure:
Have students discuss their Mini-Research eBook activity and
information they found on the Internet.
Tell students that your Mini-Research eBook Website is on the Internet
and
they can
visit the website at school or home. Explain to students
that you are going to put their pictures and information
on the Internet and they will be able to share their mission
projects with
their friends and family. (If possible teacher should take
brief
notes during the lesson and concluding discussions to be added
later
to the assessment and reflections in lesson plan.)
Estimated Time for Step Three:
5 minutes
Accommodation:
This will be turned in as an in-class activity.
Comments & Reflections:
Assessment for the
Primary Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Student will be assessed through
observation, oral discussion, and developed product to
evaluate if student: describe
the
purpose of Thanksgiving and identify the people or events of
Thanksgiving. (Use information from your PLO at top
of page of this lesson.)
| Level 3 | Level 2 | Level 1 | |
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(List
your
PLO from top of page of this lesson.) PLO: Students will describe the purpose of Thanksgiving and identify the people or events of Thanksgiving. |
Student with teacher guidance is able to describe the purpose of Thanksgiving and identify the people or events of Thanksgiving. | Student with teacher guidance is able to describe a small purpose of Thanksgiving and identify a few of the people or events of Thanksgiving. | Student is not able with teacher guidance to describe the purpose of Thanksgiving and identify the people or events of Thanksgiving. |
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To here for lesson
plan
evaluation. Information below will be entered after teaching
your lesson.
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| Student | Performance
Level |
Descriptions
of Students' Evidence that Illustrate the Achieved Performance Level of
the PLO (* To receive full credit description must include minimum of two sentences and a detailed example of the students' evidence.) |
| 1 |
2 |
I placed this student at this
performance level because although we did not have time to finish his
sentences, he needed very little to no help from the teacher. He
worked quietly by himself. In his picture about Thanksgiving, he
drew Pilgrims and Indians around a table. His Pilgrim was evident
in his drawing because he drew a Pilgrim hat on top of it as a way of
showing how the Pilgrims dressed. He knew that Thanksgiving was
to give thanks but did not remember the importance of the successful
crops. |
| 2 |
1 |
I placed this student at this
performance level because although she did enjoy the activity, her
picture was more about HER Thanksgiving, and not the First Thanksgiving
between the Pilgrims and the Indians. The task was to draw and
write about the First Thanksgiving. Although her picture showed her
Thanksgiving and why she liked Thanksgiving, she was off task. |
1.
Comment
on your
teaching of how your
Mini-Research eBook
Lesson created learning experiences and activities that
implemented the use a variety of resources and technologies. (*
To receive full credit description must include a minimum of two
sentences and a detailed example.)
The
students enjoyed this lesson because of the use of technology that
was integrated into the lesson. They
were engaged because they were able to help me with the Smartboard to
change
the pages and talk about the pictures on the slideshow.
In addition, the activity was familiar to
their strategies that they use daily while writing. For example, every
day the
students have to write for 15 minutes before reading time.
They have to practice finger spaces and spelling.
It was evident that the activity was something
familiar to something they had been working on.
2. State evidence to show that
your students gained knowledge during your Mini-Research eBook
Lesson. (*
To receive full credit description must include a minimum of two
sentences and a detailed example.)
I could see that my children
gained knowledge during my lesson because after my lesson, my mentor
teacher
read a book on Thanksgiving to the children.
Before reading the book, she asked the children a little bit
about Thanksgiving
to see what they knew. My mentor
teachers asked who took part in the First Thanksgiving and one of the
students
that I taught my lesson to raised her hand and said the Indians and the
Pilgrim
men. It was evident that he had learned
SOMETHING during that lesson.
3. Give at least one suggestion that would lead to improving your teaching practices and student achievement. (* To receive full credit description must include a minimum of two sentences and a detailed example.)
I
am working on estimating the times of my lessons based on what exactly
I will be doing with my students. I am
trying NOT to go over my time. My lesson
did not last as long as I had planned.
So for future lessons, I want to have other activities planned
in case
my lesson is too short. These lessons
will have to be on topic and educational for the children.
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