Intern Name: Sam Dixon

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): SOL Review

Grade: 5th
Length of Lesson: 10-20 minutes
Date Taught: May 27th and 28th
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
I will be reviewing key math and science objectives that the 5th graders have
Overview learned over the past year. They will do this by solving questions on a jeopardy.

Math 5.5.1-5.9.3
Standards of Learning Science 5.5 and 5.6
Social Studies USI.2 and USI.9

Essential Questions Non-existent, would delete but can’t.

Students will be able to…

After the completion of this lesson, the students should realistically remember
Objectives the information from these units and use it to pass the SOLs.

I can do mean, median, mode, and probability; identify planets in our solar
Learning Target system along with parts of a plant; and know the names of the thirteen
colonies along with basic information about the Civil War.
Necessary Prior Basic concepts of Math, Science, and SS.
Knowledge
Chromebook, white boards, dry erase markers, scratch paper with pencil/pen,
Materials promethean board, HDMI cord, and candy to award students.

Who wants some candy?

Introduction/Hook

Instructional 1. Introduce what I’m going to be doing, set up camera along with the
jeopardy on the promethean board
Activities & 2. Talk about what topics the jeopardy has and how each person will find
Strategies another to make a pair
3. Show how the team with the most points will win candy, might get a
little rowdy here
4. Get them to focus in and have them pick which point valued question
they want next
5. As I’m going through the lesson make sure the 5th graders are actively
paying close attention and give them a talking point every once and a
while; Also make sure phone is still recording
6. After the last question, award the winning team the candy and review a
little more
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)
 7. Ask if there are any questions about what we just reviewed and wish
them the best of luck on their SOLs

Key Vocabulary or There’s many more but here’s some just to name a few: Mean, median, mode,
range, stomata, pistil, and stamen.
Concepts
Assessments A verbal questioning affirming their knowledge of the material.

Closure Activity Counting team scores and awarding the winning team. I will also allow them to
ask me any questions they have about what we just went over.

Not many, there are some for kids who struggle to read but I make sure that
Accommodations they can all interact perfectly without having to struggle through the lesson by
having a “short-worded” lesson that is simple and easy to follow along.

Jeopardy template site, candy that I bought myself, and sources that Mr. Berns
Resources gave me to create my questions. Along with the school resources Cox and
Cooke had.

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Sam Dixon
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): Jeopardy SOL Review
Date of Lesson Taught: Originally 5/27(Morning Class) and 5/28(Afternoon Class),
but filmed 6/4(Afternoon Class) because I didn’t know we had to film it. Created whole new Jeopardy so it
wasn’t the same thing either
Cooperating Teacher & School: Logan Berns at Cooke Elementary
Grade: 5th
Time of Day: Wednesday and Thursday: 10:35-11:35 Friday: 1:00-2:00

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
At first I tried to think of something creative but when I asked him some questions about it he told me they
would just be doing a review and that a general review on all of the subjects except for maybe english would
probably be the best option.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
It helped me get focused questions on each of the objectives like mean, median, and mode with some other
ones like plant parts and probability.

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

Pretty much the whole thing: definitely the part where I talk about them getting rowdy over the candy when I
pull it out.
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)
4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?
One simple adjustment was shortening the time they had on each question because it took way longer than I
thought when I first started causing me to waste a little bit of time.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

I had all the materials I needed.

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?)
Although it wasn’t an assessment, I didn’t get many questions meaning that I think that they knew their stuff
after my lesson.

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!)
I feel like it was a great success because the students had lots of fun and got to ask me all sorts of questions
about the lesson material in front of them. I knew they learned it because the next week I came back and they
said my lesson was a great help on their SOL.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
I think that the time spent developing questions that would challenge them to really think caused it to be a big
success.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
If anything, I would make the 100 and 200 point questions speed questions so the lesson didn’t take so long.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

Nope, other than I think the students really enjoyed it and had lots of fun during it.

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)