edTPA/OTES Lesson Plan Template

LESSON TITLE: World War I New Technologies SUBJECT AREA: Modern World History

GRADE LEVEL: 9th TIME ALLOCATION: 1 hour 30 minutes

FOCUS FOR LEARNING: OBJECTIVES (MEASURABLE GOALS/TARGETS with active verbs):

- Students will be able to summarize the impact new technologies had on World War I and war in general at
this point in history.
- Students will be able to describe various World War I technologies and weapons.

OHIO STANDARDS:
- Modern World History #12 – Advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives, but
also had negative consequences
STUDENT PROFILE (Analyze students’ development, readiness for learning, preferred learning styles, or backgrounds and
prior experiences. Use more than one procedure to gain this info. )
 Students have been observed in lessons before this to see what learning style they use and what
teaching style I should use that would work best for them. This lesson includes class discussion and
group work so they will be learning different ways.

CONNECTION BETWEEN PRIOR AND FUTURE KNOWLEDGE (Discuss students’ readiness for learning, preferred
learning styles, or backgrounds and prior experiences. Describe the procedure(s) used to gain this info ):
 World War I would have been briefly taught in lessons before this one. Industrialization and imperialism
have been talked about before this lesson and students will have learned the transition from those topics
to World War I.

INDUCTION (introduction to lesson) TIME ALLOCATIONS: 10 minutes

- For the introduction of this lesson, a picture of a World War I
acoustic locator will be displayed on the board for the class. The ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
class will be asked if they know what it is and what they notice - The purpose of this is to give
about the picture. students an introduction to the
- After discussion of the image, we will discuss as a class some of material of the lesson. The lesson
the other new technologies that were used in the war and their is about new technologies in
impact. The website that includes the image of the acoustic locator WWI. The image is of a new
has other weapons/technology used in World War I that we will technology used in the war. The
briefly go over. image is of an interesting looking
technology and will hopefully get
students talking and interested in
what the lesson will be about.

STUDENT GROUPING:
 Whole class

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
 Laptop
 Projector
 Image: Link to website
with image
 ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:
 Acoustic locator
 Mustard gas

ASSESSMENT PLANS:
- None
ACTIVITY #1 (Include teacher questions, student expectations, TIME ALLOCATIONS:
modifications for students with special needs)  45 minutes to build
presentations
- Students will be grouped together. Each group will be assigned a  25 minutes for all groups to
new technology that was used in World War I. present (If some groups don’t
- Each group will create a short presentation on Google Slides present, they will present at
detailing some key information about their technology. This the beginning of class the next
information could include who invented it, what it did, who used it, day)
when it was invented, the impact of the weapon/technology on
warfare in general, etc. ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
- Towards the end of class each group will get a chance to present  This mini, in class project’s
their presentation in front of the class. purpose is to give students a
chance to look into World War
I technologies and start to get
an understanding of the impact
of new technologies in warfare

STUDENT GROUPING:
 Small groups of 4 or so

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

 Students will be grouped
randomly

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
 Laptops
 Google Slides

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

 Technological advancements
ASSESSMENT PLANS:
 Formative
 Students will turn in their
Google Slides which will then
be reviewed by myself. It is not
so much about getting a
grade, but to see how their
research went and what they
know about World War I
technologies at this point.

ACTIVITY #2 (If needed. Include teacher questions, student TIME ALLOCATIONS:

expectations, modifications for students with special needs)
ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
Review of prior knowledge/skill?
New knowledge/skill?

STUDENT GROUPING:
 (whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS:
None?
Formative?
Summative?

ACTIVITY #3 (If needed. Include teacher questions, student TIME ALLOCATIONS:

expectations, modifications for students with special needs) (REPEAT
AS NEEDED) ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
Review of prior knowledge/skill?
New knowledge/skill?

STUDENT GROUPING:
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS:
None?
Formative?
Summative?

CLOSURE TIME ALLOCATIONS: 10 minutes

 The closing activity will be a Google Form. Students will
complete the Google Form that will have basic questions about ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
World War I technologies and WWI in general. They will also  The purpose is to see what the
have the chance to discuss their presentation they made in students learned in class today
class on the form. This Google Form will be an exit ticket and gauge their understanding
activity. of WWI technologies.

STUDENT GROUPING:
 Individual

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
 Google Forms
 Laptops

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

 Google Forms
 ASSESSMENT PLANS:
 Formative
DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT (Discuss post-teaching plans based on assessment data collected to inform future teaching ):
 The class will continue to learn about World War I. I will use the exit slip to see what the class took from
the lesson on technology and see if we need to go over anything again or clear something up.