Lesson Title

Name Tatiana Rubalcava

Grade(s) 3rd grade

Subject(s) Social studies - History

Length of Lesson 2 days

Lesson Overview/Rationale
Curriculum Framework/Standard
In this lesson students will be working in groups of 3-4, they
will be learning about the history of Michigan by doing
research and together creating a PowerPoint.
This activity is important because it will give the student the
knowledge of how Michigan was created in the past. Also, it
will help them improve with their communication skills by
working together.
History
H3 History of Michigan (Through Statehood)
3 – H3.0.1 Identify questions historians ask in examining
the past in Michigan (e.g., What happened? When did it
happen? Who was involved? How and why did it happen?)
“International Society for Technology in Education: ISTE
Standards for Students
Standard 2: Communication Collaboration
Standard 3: Research and Information Fluency
Standard 4: Digital Citizenship
Standard 6: Technology Operations and Concepts”

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Hyperlink:
https://online.hfcc.edu/pluginfile.php/1572676/mod_resour
ce/content/0/SOCIAL-SCIENCE-SSGLCE_218368_7.pdf

Learning Objectives At the end of this lesson students should be able to:
 Collect information by doing research
 Communicate with group members
 Create a PowerPoint
Technology Uses Students will be using:
 Computers for the research and PowerPoint
 Either google slides or Microsoft office for the
PowerPoint.

Materials For materials students will using or bringing

♦ Group brainstorming notes to identify if they all
worked together.
♦ Computers for the research and to the PowerPoint.
♦ Any notes or worksheets related to History of
Michigan
Procedure 1) Teacher will explain to the students what the
activity is about.
2) The students will get into groups of 3-4
3) Each student from each group will be assigned a job
such as researcher, writer, and person who will
create the prestation.
4) When they will send it to the teacher to be graded
5) Bonus for the groups that want to present their
PowerPoints in front of the class.

Assessment
Students will work put together their work and create a
PowerPoint, showing everything, they learned during their
research.

Lesson plan with Grading Rubric Template

Describe the assignment or learning objective for your grading rubric.

In this assignment students will be placed in groups and together they will be learning
about Michigan's history by researching and taking notes, at the end together they will
create a powerpoint and be graded as a whole group.
  (performance levels)

Beginning Developing Exemplary Score

Organization / 1 pts.   2-3 pts.  4 pts. 

PowerPoint was not PowerPoint was on PowerPoint was neat
creativity  well understand or track but very well creativity,
there was no order/ information was information was in
creativity  everywhere and not order 
in order 

Pictures  0-1 pts  4 pts 

No picture where Pictures were
shown  or picture presented and on
was not related to theme to the topic. 
them 

Vocabulary  1 pts.  2 pts.  3 pts. 

Not good Vocabulary right on Vocabulary was well
vocabulary or no track, but not used used and new words
new words  well where shown 

Grammar / 1 pts.  4pts 

Lot of errors in Well used grammar
underlining or grammar, no was presented, and
highlighting  underlining very good
important underlining and
information  highlighting 

Bonus  4 pts. 
If group wants to
Presentation  present in front of
the class 

Total Assignment Score

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19