Grade 4 Date: Nov.

30th, 2020
Social Studies
Period: 10:30-11:00am

GLO: Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how elements of

physical geography, climate, geology and paleontology are integral to the landscapes and
environment of Alberta.

SLO(s):
Values and Attitudes
Learning 4.1.1 value Alberta’s physical geography and natural environment:
• appreciate the diversity of elements pertaining to geography, climate, geology and
Outcomes:
paleontology in Alberta (LPP).

Knowledge and Understanding

4.1.3 examine, critically, how geology and paleontology contribute to knowledge of
Alberta’s physical geography by exploring and reflecting upon the following questions
and issues:
• How did archeologists and paleontologists discover the presence of dinosaurs in
Alberta? (LPP, TCC).

*Cross Curricular—ELA*
GLO: #3 Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and
information.

SLO: 3.4 Share and Review

3.4.1 communicate ideas and information in a variety of oral, print and other media
texts, such as short reports, talks and posters.

Students will:
• Examine two different report exemplars.
Learning • Identify elements that make a good and poor report.
Objectives: • Compose adequate sentences for their report.

4.S.8 demonstrate skills of oral, written and visual literacy:

Skills and • organize and present information, taking particular audiences and purposes into
Processes: consideration.
 Grade 4 Date: Nov. 30th, 2020
Social Studies
Period: 10:30-11:00am

Summative • Excavating Fossils Report.

Formative
Assessment:
Assessment:

Pre-Lesson Setup

To Do: • Make an exemplar—smartboard ready.

• Sentence prompts—smartboard ready.

Resources to • Exemplar.
Bring:

Time: Breakdown: Notes:

(30mins)
Overview and Exemplars

Teacher will:
• Give an overview—I realized that last week many of
10-15mins you probably don’t know how to write a report yet, or
(15-20mins are unsure of what to do, so I decided that we would
remain) write our reports, in chunks, almost as a class instead of
by ourselves. What do you think? Before you write your
reports, we are going to look at some examples of a good
report and a not so good report. *Write student responses
up on the board and
• Go over and discuss exemplars as a class—Focus on organize them
the section(s) students will be working on in this class.
 Grade 4 Date: Nov. 30th, 2020
Social Studies
Period: 10:30-11:00am

o Weak one first, stronger one last. accordingly.

Strengths and weaknesses of each report...
*After discussing both
Q. Why is the second report the better one? exemplars, students will
identify which exemplar
demonstrates a good
Students will: report and which one does
• Examine the exemplars and identify elements that not.
make them a good or poor report.

Writing the Report—Questions #1 &2 (Maybe #4) *Remind students that

they are creating a rough
Teacher will: draft. However, they have
• Inform students that they will be working on plenty of time to finish it
questions #1 and #2 of their report, and #4 if in class. Anything not
there is time. done will become
15-20mins homework.
• Give students sentence prompts: —Final Copy Due on
o The layers of sediment around my fossil.... Wednesday at the end of
o The sediment around my fossil..... the day or Thursday, first
o My fossil was covered by….......sediment thing in the morning.

o The tools I used to excavate my fossils *Reference the sentences

were..... used in response to these
o I used..........to excavate my fossil. questions from the good
exemplar.
Time permitting:
o My fossil has...... *Have students pull out
o My fossil looks like..... the Excavating Fossils
o A unique characteristic of my fossil is....... handout for easy
reference.

Students will: *Students who finish

• Apply their knowledge of a good report to writing responses to both
effectively write the first few sentences of their questions can begin
Excavating Fossils Report. working on question #4.
 Grade 4 Date: Nov. 30th, 2020
Social Studies
Period: 10:30-11:00am

Possible
Shortcomings:

Improvements for
the Future:
 Grade 4 Date: Nov. 30th, 2020
Social Studies
Period: 10:30-11:00am

Reflections: