The document provides details for a lesson plan on exploring the Americas for a 3rd grade history and social studies class. The learning objective is for students to describe the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de León, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport, and to identify the reasons for exploring, information gained, results of travels, and impacts on American Indians. The teacher will break students into teams and use an interactive whiteboard jeopardy game to ask questions about exploring the Americas.
The document provides details for a lesson plan on exploring the Americas for a 3rd grade history and social studies class. The learning objective is for students to describe the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de León, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport, and to identify the reasons for exploring, information gained, results of travels, and impacts on American Indians. The teacher will break students into teams and use an interactive whiteboard jeopardy game to ask questions about exploring the Americas.
The document provides details for a lesson plan on exploring the Americas for a 3rd grade history and social studies class. The learning objective is for students to describe the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de León, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport, and to identify the reasons for exploring, information gained, results of travels, and impacts on American Indians. The teacher will break students into teams and use an interactive whiteboard jeopardy game to ask questions about exploring the Americas.
Americas by a) describing the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Len, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport; b) identifying the reasons for exploring, the information gained, the results of the travels, and the impact of the travels on American Indians.
Pedagogy
The objective of the lesson is what
students will be able to do as they finish the activity. 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/testin g/ look on the right of the screen for the subjects and go from there.
Activity
Describe what the
learning activity will be. What will the students and the teacher be doing? (This includes what they are doing with the technology).
logy Techno
The Teacher will: break the class up into two
separate teams. Then acting as the moderator, ask each team which question they will attempt on the jeopardy board and then ask the question. Technology The link to the IWB lesson.