Lesson plan

W301 Lesson Plan Template

Target Audience of the Lesson:

3rd grade
Big Idea of the Lesson:


Students will learn how to describe the characteristics of their neighborhood by differentiating between physical or human features of their town. Students will understand that physical characteristics are naturally occurring and human features are man made.

Overall Goal for the Lesson:
Students will utilize digital cameras to take pictures of physical and human features of their town, and transfer these images into their power point. Students will use the power point technology to present to the class the lay out of their own surrounding area. They will use slides to label each major feature and to describe whether these features are physical or human. This will allow students to share the features that make up their hometown, and also to learn from one another by peer teaching.
Indiana Content Standards Addressed: (Copy and paste entire standard from http://www.indianastandards.org/)
3.1.7 Use a variety of community resources — such as libraries, museums, and county historians — to gather information about the local community.3.3.3 Explain that regions are areas that have similar physical and cultural characteristics, and locate the local community in a specific region.3.3.6 Construct maps and graphs that show aspects of human/environment interaction in the local community
ISTE CNETS Student Standards Addressed (Copy and paste from http://cnets.iste.org/students/)

Student Objectives for the lesson. (Given a condition, the students will, to what level).
Students should be able to compose at least eight slides featuring a digital picture along with a description of their physical or human made feature.
Length of Lesson: (minutes, number of class periods, or days or weeks needed).
This lesson will require a several days of class to become comfortable with the features of the power point, compile slides for the presentation, and to create captions and descriptions of each feature. Furthermore this will require the students’ and their parents’ time outside of the classroom, because they will need to walk around their town and capture photos of their favorite natural features, landmarks, and buildings that compose their town.
Schedule of Activities: (Break down your activity into a timeline of events. Focus on what students will be doing and what teachers will be doing during each part of the activity.)

Students will receive instructions and guidance regarding the use of the digital cameras.
The students will begin with taking photos along with a parent of the features of their surrounding area.
We will then spend a few class sessions becoming familiarized with the technology of the power point.
Once the students are confident with the technology we will begin to create their slides.
Once the slides are made, the student can add pictures from their cameras.









How will these activities be assessed? (Go back to your objectives, what will the students do? Make sure that each objective is paired to an assessment measure that allows students to show it).
The students will be assessed on their amount of slides, and if they met the required eight. Also the students creativity will be assessed regarding the amount of effort they put into the aesthetics of their power point.


Adaptations: How might the lesson need to be adapted for students with special needs?

Students with special needs may be able to use the internet to find pictures of the major features of their city instead of going around and capturing photos.

Materials Needed: Go through each activity and identify what items (both technology and not) are needed to complete this lesson. Include a breakdown according to individual student or student groups.
Digital cameras
Computers
PowerPoint Technology