Lesson Plan 4

LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Name:
Pablo Garcia
Date:
Content/Grade: 6th Grade
Preparation to Teach
6.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social
structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.
State Standard:
6.2.5. Discuss the main features of Egyptian art and architecture
Lesson Objective:
Materials:
Notes:
Revised 8.13.13 (AG)
students view architecture of pyramids

students learn the amount of work that goes into building these pyramids in
ancient Egypt
Instructional Sequence
Anticipatory Set:
minutes
Instructional Strategy and/or Student Activity
introduction video about Egyptian Archeology

seeing enormous temples
seeing enormous pyramids
Rationale: (Class Learning

Preferences/Skill or Knowledge)
Existential- comprehending that even in
current times with technology building a
pyramid is an amazing feat
Visual- Seeing the pyramids and
understanding the space they take up
Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)
Naturalist- classifying the pyramids from

those in he begging of ancient Egypt to
the ones that were developed later on
IEP
504
EL
GATE
Formative Monitoring/Assessment
A pyramid consist of what two shapes?
Was a pyramid easy to build in ancient Egypt?
Rationale
A pyramid is made by two shapes a
triangle and a square. in a pyramid there
are is 1 square as a base and 4 triangles
around it.
A pyramid was no where near easy to
build in Egypt. It took tremendous man
power and many years to complete. All
this with no current day technologies.
IEP
504
EL
GATE
Instructional Input:
minutes
The amount of effort that goes into building anything in

ancient Egypt
Where were the pyramids built
Why were they built
IEP
504
EL

Existential- understanding the
importance of such big pyramids
Visual- comparing them to
buildings students might know in
order for them to understand size
Naturalist- seeing the hierarchy
order around people to create
such a big construction.
GATE
Rationale
The amount of effort that goes into building anything in

ancient Egypt
Anything built in ancient Egypt

required and immense amount of
work. People were displaced and
ordered to work on pyramids. The
amount of people would be in the
tens of thousands.
Where were the pyramids built

Why were they built
The pyramids were always built

on the west side or the river nile.
This is because the sun sets in
the west and pyramids were
monuments that took pharaohs
into the after life.

IEP
504
EL
GATE
The pyramids were meant to send

the Pharaoh to the after life with
all the riches and commodities.
Guided Practice:
minutes
Kahoot on architecture
the students will answer questions on pyramids
the reason for the pyramids

Existential- understanding the
importance of such big pyramids
Intrapersonal- seeing what the student
was able to carry from the lesson to the
quiz. What made an impression on them
Naturalist- seeing the hierarchy have
such big pyramids to be buried in.
Understanding the Pharaohs
accomplishments were sometimes
judged by their pyramid.

IEP
504
EL
GATE
Where the students able to answer the questions?
Did the students answer the questions quickly enough for
Kahoot?
Did they comprehend reasoning for the pyramids?
Rationale
Students were able to answer the
questions
if they missed the question it is revisited
and if not during the test they will have
more time to give an answer. Correcting
miss information will be more important.
Students will comprehend why pyramids
where so important to Pharaohs.
Students will know why it was critical to
build a pyramid before their deaths.

IEP
504
EL
GATE
Independent Practice:
students will try to built a pyramid from marshmallows

and sticks
students will see it is not easy to build a small pyramid
let alone a pyramid of immense size
minutes
Kinesthetic- working with marshmallows
and stick to create your own pyramid.
Intrapersonal- building your own
pyramid and finding the best way to
construct it
Logical- problem solving on how to build
a pyramid. How many sticks can
marshmallow hold together? will it be
stable?
IEP
504
EL
GATE
Rationale
Was building a pyramid hard?
Building a pyramid is very hard. On a

Small scale. Building on pyramid on a
bigger scale and different materials must
be hard.
Did you use any particular approach?

How long did it take you to make progress?
Some students might have used a tactic

to make building easier.
Did you make a mistake and start over?
Students will make progress at different

rates and some will have different size
pyramids.
Some students started with one method
and might have had to change.

IEP
504
EL
Closure:
GATE
minutes

A quiz
on paper
covering pyramids
Intrapersonal- Going over what

they learned and they understood
is of value to Pharaohs
Naturalist- recalling hierarchy used
to build pyramids
Existential- did they comprehend
the ultimate goal of pyramids for
Pharaohs.

IEP
504
EL
GATE
Rationale
see the results of the quiz

where there any questions they had trouble with?

IEP
504
EL
GATE
Reflection
The results of the quiz should not

be low as the information is recent.
If there is a question students had
trouble with revisit the question
and see what went wrong.
Success:
Struggles:
Future Ideas:

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Content/Grade: 6th Grade

6.2.5. Discuss the main features of Egyptian art and architecture

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

students view architecture of pyramids

Instructional Strategy and/or Student Activity

introduction video about Egyptian Archeology

Rationale: (Class Learning

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

Naturalist- classifying the pyramids from

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

Instructional Strategy and/or Student Activity

The amount of effort that goes into building anything in

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

Rationale: (Class Learning

The amount of effort that goes into building anything in

Anything built in ancient Egypt

Where were the pyramids built

The pyramids were always built

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

The pyramids were meant to send

Instructional Strategy and/or Student Activity

Rationale: (Class Learning

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

students will try to built a pyramid from marshmallows

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

Was building a pyramid hard?

Building a pyramid is very hard. On a

Did you use any particular approach?

Some students might have used a tactic

Did you make a mistake and start over?

Students will make progress at different

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

Instructional Strategy and/or Student Activity

Rationale: (Class Learning

Intrapersonal- Going over what

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

see the results of the quiz

Identify Adaptations (Student Needs)

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

The results of the quiz should not

Revised 8.13.13 (AG)

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