STUDENT-TEACHER’S NAME: Ashley Zaldivar

Saint John’s College Junior College Lesson Plan

Subject: Social Studies Date: 8th January 2021 Duration: 75 mins Grade: Standard 6

Unit Topic: People and events that shaped Belize Lesson Topic: Site seeing.

Learning Outcome Number(s): 48.5 Create a map of Belize showing its major historical buildings and archeological sites

Connections/Linkages: Language Arts (Writing), Expressive Arts (Drawing)

Students' Previous Knowledge & Experience:

Students can identify the different historical landmarks and archeological sites from discussions in class and
previous lessons.
Lesson Objective:

By using notes and discussions from class, Students will be able to draw and label at least five historical
landmarks and archeological sites on a map of Belize at the end of the lesson.
Materials and Texts: Sources of Information:

Belize Map Printouts Fort Barlee - https://www.lonelyplanet.com/belize/corozal-

town/attractions/fort-barlee/a/poi-sig/1320221/1295758
Pencil crayons
Corozal House of culture - https://belizing.com/Corozal-House-of-Culture/
Map of Belize poster Google maps of Corozal - https://www.google.com/search?
sa=X&rlz=1CADSMM_enBZ939&biw=1366&bih=649&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:1&tbm=l
Shop paper with each district
cl&q=corozal+map+with+historical+buildings+and+location&rflfq=1&num=
10&ved=2ahUKEwiumb7W2NbuAhWt1FkKHaaGCB0QtgN6BAgNEAc#rlfi=h
Markers
d:;si:;mv:[[18.4191696,-88.16581860000001],[18.1188344,-
Tape 88.4904778]];tbs:lrf:!1m4!1u3!2m2!3m1!1e1!1m4!1u2!2m2!2m1!1e1!
2m1!1e2!2m1!1e3!3sIAE,lf:1,lf_ui:1
Atlas of Belize Banquitas House of culture - https://www.lonelyplanet.com/belize/orange-
walk-town/attractions/banquitas-house-of-culture/a/poi-
sig/1111429/1295756

The abandoned machinery stands as testimony to the once thriving sugar

industry - https://www.travelbelize.org/serpon-sugar-mill#:~:text=Serpon
%20Sugar%20Mill%20is%20the,landmark%20in%20Belize's%20colonial
%20history.&text=Estimates%20are%20that%20at%20its,pounds%20of
%20sugar%20a%20month.

Belize biggest financial benefactor baron bliss -

https://www.travelbelize.org/belize-biggest-financial-benefactor-baron-
bliss

The Government House- Belize House of Culture -

https://mybeautifulbelize.com/government-house-belize-house-culture/

Visit St. John’s Cathedral in Belize City -

 https://www.blackorchidresort.com/st-johns-cathedral-in-belize-city/

Museum of Belize and House of culture - https://nichbelize.org/museum-of-

belize-and-houses-of-culture/

Chalillo Dam - https://ejatlas.org/conflict/chalillo-dam-belize

Drums of our father’s monument -

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/belize/southern-
belize/dangriga/attractions/drums-of-our-fathers-monument/a/poi-
sig/1320300/358208

Gulisi Garifuna Museum - https://www.myguidebelize.com/belize/culture-

art/gulisi-garifuna-museum

Lubaantun - https://nichbelize.org/institute-of-archaeology/archaeological-
sites-and-parks/lubaantun/

Lesson Content:

Corozal:

Fort Barlee - At the center of town, this fort was built in 1849 by Caste War refugees for protection from attacks
by hostile Maya.

Corozal House of culture - The Corozal House of Culture is one of five Houses of Cultures in the country of Belize. It
was originally built as a Market for Corozal in 1886.

Orange Walk

Banquitas house of culture - The modern Banquitas House of Culture has an attractively displayed exhibit on
Orange Walk's history. It's especially good on the local Maya sites and has artifacts, maps, and illustrations, as
well as exhibits that change monthly.

Belize City

Baron Bliss Lighthouse - Every 9th of March, Belizeans across the country honor Belize’s largest financial
benefactor, Baron Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, JP. You might be familiar with the story of Baron Bliss gifting
the value of over a million dollars to Belize on March 9, 1926, when he passed away.

The Government House- Belize House of Culture - Located on Regent Street in Belize City, the building was erected
in 1814 when Belize was still British Honduras and under British rule. It was the residence of the Governor-
General (the British Monarchy representative) until 1998 when The Government House was opened to the public
and renamed the House of Culture.

St. John’s Cathedral - Was built in the year 1812 by enslaved Africans using bricks that traveled across the
Atlantic in the holds of ships, St. John’s Cathedral is a magnificent Anglican house of worship. Officially, this
magnificent structure is known as the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Baptist and was originally a parish
church, the very first house of worship built by the British in the colony then known as British Honduras.

The Museum of Belize - Built between 1854 and 1857 as a Her Majesty’s Prison while the area was still a British
colony, it was a replacement for a wooden prison nearby. It was the Belize City Prison until 1993 when prisoners
were then transferred to the Hattieville Prison. In 2002, it was restored and renovated into a national museum.

Cayo

Chalillo dam - Chalillo hydroelectric project was first proposed in the early 1990s and later integrated into the
Central American Electric Interconnection System; it has been operating since the end of 2005, built by the
Canadian company Fortis with Chinese participation.

Stann Creek

Serpon Sugar Mill - is the country’s first historical reserve. Hidden in the jungle one mile in on the access road to
the village of Sittee River is an important landmark in Belize’s colonial history. It is the remnants of the steam-
powered Serpon Sugar Mill, which was established in 1865 and marked the start of Belize’s industrial era.

Drums of our father’s monument - This monument in the traffic circle south of Dangriga's main bus station
underscores the importance of percussion in Garifuna (and Belizean) life, with its large bronze representations of
ritual dügü drums and sisira (maracas). It was sculpted by Stephen Okeke, a Nigerian resident of Dangriga.

Gulisi Garifuna Museum - On November 18, 2004, the Gulisi Garifuna Museum opened to the public, finally
offering a place for locals and tourists alike to learn about the Garifuna culture. Named for a Garifuna heroine
who founded Punta Negra in the Toledo District.

Toledo

Lubaantun - The large pyramids and residences are made of stone blocks with no mortar binding them together.
The name is Maya for “Place of Fallen Stones.”

Skills:

Speaking, by presenting their findings to the classroom. Communication, by discussing with their classmates
[group members]. Creativity, by drawing and coloring and using their imaginations to create symbols for their
maps.

Attitudes:

Appreciation, for the history of the sites found in their country and for being able to work with each other.
Cooperation, by working well with each other during group work and helping one another. Enthusiastically
participate in group activities and complete tasks.

Suggested Activities/Procedures:
Introductory Activities (6 mins.):

Think, pair, share. Students will be given a prompt [on a landmark/archeological site] on the topic of the lesson,
to think about and write what they know, then find a pair to share their information, and then students will be
picked at random to share what they have gathered. [Two mins to think alone, two mins to share with a pair, and
two minutes to share with the class.]

Developmental Activities/Procedures (59 mins.):

Students will be shown a map of Belize posters, highlighting all the historical landmarks and archeological sites
found around Belize [in each district].

Students will be placed in groups of five and given a district map [on shop paper] to fill out with the landmarks
and sites found in these areas. Students will draw symbols representing the sites and then stick their posters in a
designated area of the class.

Students will then be taken on an ‘in-class field trip’ visiting each district and presenting their understanding of
the landmarks and sites found in the districts. While the remaining students take notes.

During this time students will be asking questions, using their previous notes and textbooks to find out more
about the sites.
 Students will engage in class discussion and note-taking.

Students will be given the opportunity to ask more questions for clarifications if need be.

Culmination & Closure ( 10 mins.):

Students will be given an empty map of Belize to fill out with an archeological site, a historical building, a village,
a river, and a highway in each district. Students will use their notebooks, district maps found around the
classroom, and atlas of Belize to help them fill out their maps. They will also create a key/legend using little
symbols representing their sites, buildings, villages, highways, and rivers.

Homework (if applicable)

Students will be given instructions to choose any historical building or archeological site, and describe them in
their own words in a booklet form. A picture or drawing must be included, with the name of the site, the
location, and a brief description. Can be done inside their Social Studies notebook. [scrapbook like formatting]

Reflection:

The strengths of my lesson plan would definitely be the information I gathered for the content, how
organized I am, and the activities I chose to use. I feel like I found sufficient information for the content and it
fits perfectly for the lesson. I also believe that the activities I chose to use for this lesson are perfect because it
allows the students to get involved and move around and not feel confined to their seats. The activities also
allow the students to be creative and innovative, which I feel are very important. A weakness I had in my
lesson was the fact that I wrote the lesson objective wrong. I found that I have constantly made similar mistakes
pertaining to the lesson objectives on previous lesson plans. This is definitely something I must work on to
improve. Overall, I believe that I did very well on this lesson plan with only a few mistakes, but of course, there
is always room for improvement and I hope to keep all of these comments from my teacher in mind when I
continue to write more lessons in the future.