CMLIS BACKWARD DESIGN LESSON PLAN Subject: Social Studies 11

Date: Wednesday October 8, 2014

Stage 1: Desired Results

Projected Learning Outcomes met:

- SKILLS & PROCESSES

- apply critical thinking including questioning, comparing, summarizing, drawing conclusions, and
defending a position to make reasoned judgments about a range of issues, situations, and topics
- demonstrate effective research skills, including: accessing information | assessing information | collecting data | evaluating data |
organizing information | presenting information | citing sources
- demonstrate effective written, oral, and graphic communication skills
- demonstrate skills and attitudes of active citizenship, including ethical behaviour, open-mindedness, respect for diversity, and
collaboration
- CONTENT

Stage 2: Evidence for Assessing Learning

Evidence:
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Stage 3: Learning Plan

Goals [Write Down]: Student tasks

Feel prepared for our test. 2 minutes
Homework Review: Canada at the Turn of the 20th Century 10 minutes
Naval Service Act, Boer War, Alaska Boundary Dispute
H: Map of Europe 5 Minutes
Lightning Lecture 10 Minutes

Complete once goals are written down.

Iceberg Metaphor
Provide Example
Verbally Complete A/B Partner using the PPT as guide 5 Minutes
Distribute Thielmann PPT sections to each pair of students
Arrange a rectangle of discussion chairs for students to move to once complete.
Share findings, while peers take notes Distribute H: Canadas Response to War on 15 Minutes
their way back to their desks
H: Canadas Response to WWI
5 Minutes
A/B Partner Anticipation Questions
Why would Canada be involved in a war that took place on a totally different continent?
Which province would you expect to be least excited to go to war in Europe?
Introduce BIG QUESTION: Did the War have a positive or negative effect on Canada?
Students complete H: Canadas Response to WWI Individually 20 Minutes

Exit Question: Describe to me how the causes of WWI were like an iceberg?