Intern Name: Qiana Boyd and Taylor Balovich

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Grade: 4th Grade
Length of Lesson: 15 minutes
Date Taught:
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson, students will identify the different regions of Virginia with a
sorting activity. They will learn the characteritics of each region and why they
Overview are important.

Virginia: The Physical Geography and Native Peoples

● VS.2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the
relationship between physical geography and the lives of the native
Standards of peoples, past and present
Learning B): Locating and describing Virginia’s Coastal Plain (Tidewater),
Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian
Plateau;
What characteristics make up each of the regions of Virginia?
Essential Questions Where are the regions located?

Students will be able to… understand the characteristics for each region and
Objectives where there located.

I understand where the different regions of Virginia are located, and I can
Learning Target describe their characteristics and why they are important.
Necessary Prior Virginia compose of multiple regions
Knowledge
Students will need only their chromebooks.
Materials
Warm-up:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oFUWUJJb5eVrzYEWLWvkfyEu53zI
d82TAEU3dKmASQY/edit#slide=id.g119779cfa40_0_0
1. Students will be shown a powerpoint that will give them a region located
on a map. It will then show them a picture of the region's geography.
Introduction/Hook 2. Students will then use the location and geography to identify what
region is being shown, they will write their answer on a white board and
hold it up.

1.)Virginia’s Regions Video Lesson

Instructional ● https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SpL5DdyzZZkGJra8lt3KbfNK5PfH4p-f
Activities & /view?usp=sharing
Strategies
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)
Key Vocabulary or Virginia’s Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley
and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau
Concepts
Interactive Padlet where students write out what characteristic goes in each
Assessments region. https://padlet.com/3489311/m99u17b672q3v66l

Ask the class where they would want to live based on the characteristics of each
Closure Activity region. Using dry erase boards.

Paper copy of drag and drop activity

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13A0hnfOaXJ8GJWHNXdpWWoJZxGqi
YW04FTN8YTGlEek/edit
Accommodations Subtitles on the informative video lesson
Extra explanations for kids with learning disabilities

Chromebook and Video Lesson

Resources

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

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1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?

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

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

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)
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?)

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!)

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

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)