Learning Focused Lesson Plan Template

Lesson Topic: Landforms: Islands and Rivers

Standards Addressed in this Lesson: Geography Standard Two K-3a: Students

will distinguish different types of climate and landforms and explain why they
occur.
Learning Goals/Target for this Lesson: Students will be able to identify and define
the landforms, island and river with 85% accuracy.
Students will know Students will be able to
• Students will know what • Identify a picture of an Island.
an Island is. • Define what an Island is.
• Students will know what a • Identify and define what a River and
River is. Island is.

Lesson Essential Question: How do different landforms occur across the earth?
Activating Strategy: Having a daily social studies routine of writing about a new
landform and drawing a picture will help students flow through the lesson more
smoothly. Students will be exposed to literacy, music, videos, body movement, as
well as hands-on activities in order to target all types of learners.
Key vocabulary : Island, Surrounded, River, Current, Bend
Lesson Instruction:
Learning activity 1 Graphic Organizer:
1. What is an Island?
2. Students will read a poem aloud and do body
movements to it. Smartboard Slides
3. Students will listen to a song about Islands.
4. Students will watch a Disney movie clip of how Assignment:
they represented a Volcano (a landform students
learned about previously) transforming into an Write in Landforms
Island. Booklet.
5. Students will then look at a map of the Galapagos
Islands and begin to write in their booklet.
Assessment Prompt for LA 1: After the video, the
teacher will begin to ask students questions
regarding the video. Students will signal thumbs up
or thumbs down if they agree or disagree. I was
able to asses who was understood the video about
Islands.

Learning activity 2
1.What is a River?
2. Students will watch a video about rivers.
3. The teacher will read from a book about rivers to
the students.
4. Students will then look at a map of the Amazon
River and begin to write in their landforms booklet.
Assessment Prompt for LA 2: After the video, the
teacher will begin to ask students questions
Adapted from Learning-Focused Lesson Plan (Next Generation of Learning-Focused) 1
 Learning Focused Lesson Plan Template
regarding the video. Students will signal thumbs up
or thumbs down if they agree or disagree. I was
able to asses who was understood the video about
Islands.

Summarizing Strategy: After the video, the teacher will begin to ask students
questions regarding the video. Students will signal thumbs up or thumbs down if
they agree or disagree. I was able to asses who was understood the video about
Islands.

Adapted from Learning-Focused Lesson Plan (Next Generation of Learning-Focused) 2