Unit Plan: The News in the CommunityLesson Plan for WednesdayGrade: 2ndSocial Studies Strand: History

Submitted By: Courtney Donnelly

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social ScienceNevada State College – Spring 2014Instructor: Karen Powell

Lesson Plan for Wednesday Strand: history submitted by: Courtney D

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan : For today’s part of the unit, I am going to explain in more detail what I expect from the group project as well show a couple examples of what I did.

C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 2nd Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 minutes Groupings: small group and whole group

D. Materials: ComputerPaper and pencil

E. Objectives: o NV State Social Studies Standards

H3.2.6A Read and discuss news events in the community.o Student-Friendly Standards

I can read and talk about the news that’s going on in my neighborhood or community.

F. Vocabulary Newspaper - News -

G. Procedure: 1. I remind the students that they are to start working on their part in the classroom

newspaper. (some students are looking up pictures, some drawing, some writing, and some proofreading)

2. I will walk around if the students need help, but they are to come up with most of the ideas and how it should look in the newspaper.

3. They will have a number of papers as reference to help them. 4. Let them know that presentation of their piece of the paper is on Friday.

H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding?

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Lesson Plan for Wednesday Strand: history submitted by: Courtney D

I will have to look at what each student is working on to make sure they are understanding what they are doing.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. I’ll know about looking at the work they are working on.

I. Closure: Ask a few students what they are working on and how they hope to finish in the

next couple days.

J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? 2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?

3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?4. What can you do for students who don’t grasp the concepts?5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?

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