EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan Template

Western Hemisphere
Ashley Duarte
Fifth Grade/ Social Studies

Common Core Standards:

Strand: History
Topic Historical Thinking:Historical thinking begins with a clear sense of time past, present
and future and becomes more precise as students progress.
Content Statement: Multiple-tier timelines can be used to show relationships among events
and places.
Strand: History
Topic: Heritage-Ideas and events from the past have shaped the world as it is today. The
actions of individuals and groups have made a difference in the lives of
others.
Content Statement:3. European exploration and colonization had lasting effects, which can be
used to understand the Western Hemisphere today

Lesson Summary:
This lesson will teach my students about the history of the country we live in, as well as
understand a little more about the traditions we practice. using timelines they will fill in the
parts of history that each group is talking about and present them in class. We will talk about
heritage.
Estimated Duration:
I plan on taking about 5 days for this lesson, about 50 minutes each day.

Commentary: This is going to be on the IPods for a good amount of time, very few of this

lesson will be actual lecture

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1: the first 10 minutes the students will tell me what they know (assuming they know
basics like: who europeans are/where they live) the next 10 minutes i want them to take a
quiz and tell me where these traditions come from by taking this quiz (answers will not be
written.) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XlY2NofCWwfdP8d4EedPsf4QVBgV27HA61X_HAwkDA/edit?usp=sharing. For 20 minutes they will
do some research and find where they actually came from rather than me just giving them
the answers. If they wish they can do this in groups. they will look the holidays up on their
ipods. The last 5 minutes of class we will talk about what they learned. Their homework
assignment will be to find out what other traditions or holidays we celebrate in the US that
originated in other parts of the world.

Day 2: The first 15 minutes of class I will explain to my students that the activity they did last
night was just for fun, as well as explain what they will be required to do. I want them to
make a prezi powerpoint with 4 classmates(5 students per group) that i will assign. The
slides will represent specific points in time. Each group will be assigned different parts of
Europe. the next 30 minutes will be spent showing them how to use prezi, and then giving
them their group members as well as the part of Europe which they will write about. what i
want them to research is: Place names, languages, religions, agricultural practices, and
agricultural products. I want them to figure out what we use that came from Europe and how
we use it.

Day 3:this is day one of research, Students will have 35 minutes to research everything they
can about the European country they were assigned. The last ten minutes, they will tell me
what they found, when it happened, and how it impacted how we live life today.

Day4: The first 25 minutes will be reasearch and then the next 25 will be putting the prezi
together.

Day5: The first 10 minutes are for any questions the students may have, if none then we
continue on and the students begin presentation. there are 5 groups of 5 students. Each
group will present their prezi.

extra day6: if more time needed there is about 10 minutes for the students to present the
prezis, after that they will take a test. This test will be on the individual countries of each
group, ( the students who had spain, will take an assessment about spain individually.) This is

to make sure they learned something and not just copied and pasted nor made one student
do all the work, this is a pop quiz, the back side will be of the different groups countries which
they all should have paid attention to. There will be 20 questions 4 for each group. There is
also a writing part in which the students must tell me in detail what they learned, a paragraph.

Pre-Assessment:
Like I stated above, the first day i will ask them what they know by having a mini quiz, as well
as asking them anything and everything they know about the specific countries (spain,
Britain, France, italy and Greece, and Portugal. )

Scoring Guidelines:
i will have a test and a quiz, the quiz will be 25 points, the whole lesson is 100 points. the mini
quiz is on participation, worth 5 points. The research is worth 35 and the prezi is 35. The way i
graded it is by participation, creativity, use of resources, and group work.

At the end of each day each group is asked what the researched and how it relates to the
assignment.

Post-Assessment:
I am doing both a prezi, and a test. The prezi is for information and use of technology as well
as group work. The test is for individual learning and assessment.

Scoring Guidelines:
The post assessment test is to make sure each student put effort in the prezi. The prezi itself
will be for the group . It will be in point which will add up to the students individual grade for
the lesson.

Differentiated Instructional Support : I put them in groups so that no student had all the
pressure, and each student could pitch in. If any student needs extra help or more guidance
they can come to me, as classmates they need to learn how to work together and help one
another. Some activities that can help the student is talking to me to do extra work, maybe
they can print pictures or bring in things that go with the assignment so the rest of the
students do just sit and look at a screen all day.

Extension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas - wikipedia is always
fast and easy but sometimes it is not to reliaable. so anything the students find here needs to
go through me first before they put it on prezi.
http://www.english-online.at/history/age-of-exploration/explorers-and-navigators.htm - This
one is more for papers but the information is equally helpful students can ask any questions
they may have.
the library can be the greatest tool for students to use, books are usually more accredited
then online sites.

Homework Options and Home Connections

Students are asked to check how things around them are possible because of Europeans, or
how the past has affected the present. Any research they do out of class is expected.
students can not search everything during class. They can use the ipads to search some
pictures and other stuff to put into their prezis.

Interdisciplinary Connections
We are talking about European countries, students are expected to know where these places
are specifically. This has to do with geography.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers

For
students

computers, ipads, and ipods are tech tools that are needed for
this lesson as well as a projector/smart board for the
presentation

ipods, ipads, laptops and a access to computers

after school.

Key Vocabulary
There are no terms that need to be explained to the students, they have all the resources
available to search what they need to know.