TIERED LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Lesson Topic: Objectives/Standards: Length of Lesson:

Learners will categorize landforms into
Landforms groups. 8 hrs.
Learners will create salt cellars of landforms
from the group of landforms they
categorized.
Learners will exchange and evaluate
landform information via salt cellar.
Background/Previous Knowledge/Skill:
The 52 Landforms
How to create and fold a salt cellar. (Foldable Fortune Tellers)
Depth and Complexity Elements: Ethics, Multiple Perspectives, Unanswered Questions, Over Time*
Pre-assessment:
Students will play individual Landform Jeopardy. Based on those results they will be placed in there tiers.
• Tier 3: 90% or above
• Tier 2: 70% to 89%
• Tier 1: 69% and lower
Instructor will see if students are able to make a salt cellar.
• If they cannot, students will review via video (Instructor Chosen) and then show Instructor.
Materials: Notes:
List of Landforms Landforms - a feature on
Paper Earth's surface that is part of
White Boards (Individual) the terrain.
Coloured Pencils/Crayons/Markers/Pencils Salt Cellar - a small
Scissors container for salt with a hole
Landform Jeopardy Game or holes in the top for
shaking salt onto food.
Tier III: Tier II: Tier I:
1. Students will work in groups of 1. For the landforms they missed on the Jeopardy! game, 1. For the landforms they missed on the
three to categorize the landforms given students will create digital flashcards for those Jeopardy! Game, students will create
by the Instructor. (52 of them) Landforms, and will review them three times and quiz digital flashcards for those landforms, and
2. Individually they will create a salt themselves with partners. will review them three times and quiz
cellar with 8 landforms from one 2. Students will work in groups of three to categorize the themselves with partners.
category, one large picture and four landforms given by the Instructor. (52 of them) 2. Students will work in groups of three to
small pictures. (Students are free to 3. Individually they will create a salt cellar with 8 categorize the landforms given by the
landforms from one category, one large picture and four Instructor. (52 of them)
create landform categories based on small pictures. (Students are free to create landform 3. Individually they will create a salt
own preference) categories based on own preference) cellar with 8 landforms from one
Questions must be formed in Questions must be formed in Jeopardy! style category, one large picture and four small
Jeopardy! style with the with the answer in the form of a question. pictures. (Students are free to create
answer in the form of a Only six questions may be landform categories based on own
question. knowing/understanding level. preference) Only six questions may be
Only four questions may be 4. Students will take turns playing the salt cellar. knowing/understanding level.
knowing/understanding level. 5. They will evaluate their salt cellar with the evaluation 4. Students will take turns playing the salt
3. Students will take turns playing the form. cellar.
salt cellar. 6. They will answer these reflection questions: 5. They will evaluate their salt cellar with
4. They will evaluate their salt cellar Describe the development of one of the the evaluation form.
with the evaluation form. landforms over time. 6. They will answer these reflection
5. They will answer these reflection Why would it be better to live on a plateau than questions:
questions: on the coast? Describe the development of one
Would the Earth be more What landform do you think was the first one of the landforms over time.
affected if there were no dunes that people named? Why would it be better to live on
or if there were no fjords? a plateau than on the coast?
How differently does a delta What landform do you think was
see the ocean than a peninsula the first one that people named?
sees the ocean?
Describe the development of
one of the landforms from the
perspective of the landform.
6. When finished, students will choose
one of three TED talks on landforms to
watch and they will summarize the talk
of the other Tier 3 students.
Assessment:
Students are able to identify at 10 of the different landforms through an oral and written response. (out of
the 52 that were provided by the Instructor)
Students are able to categorize Landforms through personal preference or through standard categorization.
Students are able to answer the reflection questions with thoughtful responses in there journals.
Additional Accommodations:

By: Angel Hope S. Maceda

BSED-Science 3D