Intern Name: Grace Mayo

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Social Studies/Jamestown Review

Grade: 4
Length of Lesson: 70-80 mins
Date Taught:
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson… students will participate in a review of Jamestown with many
different review options ranging from videos to games, in order to prepare
Overview them for the SOL.

Standards of Learning
Objectives
VS.1a- Skills- analyzing and interpreting artifacts and primary and secondary
sources to understand events in Virginia history
VS.3- Colonization and Conflict: 1607 through the American Revolution
VS.4e- describing everyday life in colonial Virginia.
Students will be able to… understand how/why Jamestown was settled and
the problems faced by the colonists.

-I can identify why the colonists chose Jamestown to settle.

-I can identify the problems the colonists faced in the early stages of
Learning Target Jamestown.
-I can identify the important people in Jamestown and identify their
contributions to the colony.
-Be familiar with the colony of Jamestown
Necessary Prior -Understand key figures and key events of the colony
Knowledge -Know how to operate chromebooks and their schoology pages

-Chromebooks
-Paper,
-Pencils,
Materials -Printer (if applicable)
-Internet access
-Access to Schoology
Watch review Youtube videos
- Students will watch Jamestown Settlement | Jamestown Colony |
Educational Story for Kids | Kids Academy
- Students then will watch this fun parody! Jamestown Colony ("Shut Up
Introduction/Hook and Dance" parody) - @MrBettsClass

Instructional 1) Students will get out their chromebooks and go to their schoology page
where the lesson is posted
Activities & 2) Students will click the appropriate folder and begin the lesson
Strategies 3) Students will begin by watching a 7 minute review video and write
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 down what they think is important (15 mins so they can pause and get
all the information)
Discovering Jamestown
4) Students then will then complete a fun Jamestown based game on their
chromebooks
5) Students will play this game as the captain of Jamestown and will learn
what it takes to be a captain and have a better understanding of why
starting the colony was difficult (15 mins)
Mixer for Media
6) After completing the game, students will go to the next item in the
folder which is titled “Analyzing Pictures” (30 mins)
Picture Analysis Worksheet
7) In this folder, students can either print out the document or write it
down on a google doc or a piece of paper
8) Attached in the folder are pictures from the colony, the students then
will explain and answer the questions being asked on the print out
9) Some of the pictures include Pocahontas, the Starving period, John
Smith and the Native Americans
10) When the students are finished with that activity they will wrap up by
watching both part 1 and part 2 of Brainpops videos covering the
subject and also take the quizzes that come with the video (20 mins)
Jamestown, Part 1
Jamestown, Part 2 Jamestown, Part 2
11) To conclude the lesson, students will open the link to the google quiz
and take a short 5 question quiz reviewing the lesson and the
information learned, this will not be graded but used for information
purposes.

-Students after this lesson will understand the struggles the colonists endured
Key Vocabulary or in Jamestown.
Concepts -Students will know why the colonists chose Jamestown as the original colony.
-Key Vocabulary- Jamestown, colonization, analysis, effective note taking.
A small google quiz that is not graded but used for review.
Assessments https://forms.gle/WrX3bi1WfwG7DmXx9
Closure Activity A small google quiz reflecting the lesson and quiz them to see if they learned
the new necessary information for the unit to get them prepared for the social
studies SOL, this will not be counted as a grade in the gradebook but will be
used to determine what students need extra help on. Then wrap up and get
ready to transition to the next part of the day. If extra help is needed they can
contact me through schoology and we can start a Zoom meeting.
Link to quiz: https://forms.gle/WrX3bi1WfwG7DmXx9

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 This activity is very interactive and uses different tools like videos and games
to help the students remain involved, if possible verbal reminders will be given
as well as notifications. Extra time has been given on most assignments for
students that need it but the other students can move on when needed.
Accommodations

Online sources
Jamestown Lesson Plans & Activities

Jamestown Game
Mixer for Media

Picture Analysis Worksheet

13 Simple Ways to Integrate Technology into any Lesson Plan

.

Both sample examples

Resources
SOL objectives

History & Social Science Standards of Learning Resources

Jamestown Review Video

Jamestown Settlement | Jamestown Colony | Educational Story for Kids | Kids
Academy

Jamestown Parody
Jamestown Colony ("Shut Up and Dance" parody) - @MrBettsClass

Brainpop!

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Grace Mayo
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): Social Studies/ Jamestown Review
Date of Lesson Taught:
Cooperating Teacher & School Mrs. Hillier, Linkhorn Park
Grade: 4th
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
Time of Day:

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
To create this lesson, I had to remember that this class is an inclusion class with different students at different
learning levels. Always in my mind I had to remember to make the lesson interactive and keep their attention,
but also make the lesson easy for all to understand.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
The SOLs and Objectives helped me focus my lesson around certain points that would help the students pass the
SOL.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

The activities target a lot of different learning techniques which I think will help all the students in the class
because they get to experience all of them like games, videos and analyzing.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

I forgot when I first did the Introduction that this was a virtual thing, my brain stopped working when I thought
of ideas for it. After realizing it wasn’t correct, I made it a virtual introduction which definitely needed to be
done so students can better understand the lesson and not be confused.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

I would say very well because all students have access to the links and to schoology.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
The assessment I chose will allow myself as well as the teacher to see where the student’s weaknesses are as
well as what needs to be gone over again in order for students to pass their SOLs

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of the
lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
The lesson offers a variety of different learning techniques which allows students of different learning styles to
succeed and learn from my lesson.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
I used a lot of different sources and spent a lot of time thinking if my resources would help the student learn or
not. I also spent a lot of time going through different websites to see what is the best way to engage students
through virtual learning techniques and tried to incorporate those techniques into my lesson.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
I would not change anything, I am very confident that my lesson plan will help the students in the classroom
learn and exceed in this unit.

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John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?
I think that it is cool that we get to have this experience with the pandemic going on because this gets us
familiar with future of teaching and prepares us for this event if it were to happen in the future. Although it
would have been fun to be able to actually teach in the classroom.
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Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)