VA SOL 2.

11 Famous Americans: Jackie Robinson

Teacher name

Wendy Nelson

Subject

Library Research

Grade Level

Second

Time duration

30 minutes

Materials needed

Laptops or tablets for each child, headphones for each child, interactive
whiteboard, printed graphic organizers for each child

Describe what you are going to need

to have ready at hand for the lesson

Lesson Objective
The objective of the lesson is what
students will be able to do as they
leave your class. For this objective,
use the Standards of Learning (SOL)
to say what you want to focus on.
You can find the SOLs at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/
look on the right of the screen for the
subjects and go from there.

Purpose of the lesson This

connects with the lesson objective,
but in this section of your lesson plan
you will describe what you want
students to be able to do in your own
words. Be specific in this section.
Why do the students need to learn it?
What will they be able to do at the
end of the lesson to show that
learning has taken place?

Activity Describe what the learning

activity will be. Include:
-Exactly what the teacher and
students will be doing each step of
the way. For example, at first, will
the teacher be modeling something,
or describing what they are doing.
-Explain if the teacher be asking
questions, holding a discussion?
-Explain if the students will be
working independently, in pairs,
groups etc.

2.11 The student will identify George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,

Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther
King, Jr., as Americans whose contributions improved the lives of other
Americans.

Students will view a curated set of recommended online resources on

the subject of Jackie Robinson.
Students will be guided to independently explore these recommended
online resources on the subject to help fill out a graphic organizer.
Students will see a short video and a modeled analysis of a lengthy
narrative about Jackie Robinsons life, including identification of the
most important facts.
Students will identify five or six important facts about Jackie Robinson,
in preparation for an in-class writing assignment.
Students will sit at library tables with a laptop or tablet available for
their use. Each student receives a printed graphic organizer with a
drawing of Jackie Robinson and a web of boxes for important facts.
Librarian states that the classroom teacher would like the children to
learn how to do online research for the unit they are working on in
Social Studies, famous Americans. Ask if anyone can define research.
Provide simple explanation (research is searching for and gathering
information on a particular topic.) Prompt students to name sources of
informationwhere would you find information about a famous
American like Jackie Robinson? (books, videos, websites)

State that today we will look at some online resources. Pull up on

interactive whiteboard a prepared page containing shortcuts to these
resources:
http://www.fcps.edu/KingsParkES/technology/bios/robinson.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-historymonth/videos/jackie-robinson-breaks-barriers
http://baseballhall.org/hof/robinson-jackie
http://web.scott.k12.va.us/leanne.vermillion/jackie_robinson.htm
[plus more]
Invite the students to use their laptops to navigate to this same page,
and give them a few minutes to view the four-minute video from
history.com.
Ask them if they learned some facts about Jackie Robinson. Ask Who
was he? What sport did he play? What made him important? When did
he play it? etc. Allow class to brainstorm some key words such as
baseball, African-American, etc. Ask if they feel ready to write down
some key facts about Jackie Robinson or if they need to explore a bit
more.
Open
http://www.fcps.edu/KingsParkES/technology/bios/robinson.htm and
model reading it with simultaneous analysis and identification of facts.
Have children come up and use whiteboard pen to click to highlight
important facts. Invite contributions as to whether the identified facts
are most important, somewhat important, or not very important. Invite
agreement on most important sentence. (Hint: it is at the top: First
African American player in baseball major leagues)
Compare with
http://web.scott.k12.va.us/leanne.vermillion/jackie_robinson.htm
which lists facts more directly. Is this easier to use? Does it give us the
same amount of information?
Allow students time to begin to fill out graphic organizer, navigating
online resources themselves or copying from text that is onscreen.
Share ideas with class if time.
Assessment How will you as the
teacher check to see if the learning
objectives have been met. The
assessment must match the lesson
objectives and the purpose of the
lesson.

Library media specialist will collect graphic organizers to give to

classroom teacher, who will review them before returning them to
students for in-class writing activity.