ESU Elementary Education Annotated Lesson Plan Format 12-12

Note: Not all lesson plans will include all the components listed below and the components will not always
be in the order shown. If a component is not included, a brief explanation should be inserted at the
appropriate point in the plan where that component would normally fit.
1. Context and Learning Environment for this Lesson:
Interns name __Megan Plumlee_____________ School ______Elementary

Mentor teacher ___ ______________________ Subject ______Social Studies______________________________
Grade level (s) ____4th____________ Tentative date to be taught ___September 12, 2014_______ Time
___8:30am__________________
The setting:
Class Description:
23 students in the 4th grade classroom.
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11 boys and 12 girls

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6 are Hispanic, 1 African American, and 16 are Caucasian

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5 students are English Language Learners

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1 student has an IEP and another is under evaluations for an IEP, 2 students have ADHD.

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The school as a whole has 46% of the students on free or reduced lunch

Classroom Physical Setting:
- The desks are set into groups of 4
- A board is in the front and back of the room
- 2 smaller tables are in the back of the room
- A large classroom library in on the side of the room
- A sink and countertop with the turn in basket are on the opposite side to the library

Materials
For the teacher:
SMARTboard
Projector
Map examples
Paper
Pencils
Colored pencils
Video

For the student(s):
Paper
Pencils
Colored pencils
Poster board
Various paper
Markers
2. Lesson Goals, Outcomes, Objectives: Describe what you expect students to be able to do, to achieve,
including:

2.1 Instructional Objectives: -
The students will create a topographical map and identify features of maps. (Cognitive, application,
synthesis, 4.G.1 )
2.2 Relevant local district/state/common core standard(s) - (ksde.org):
Geography (G) Read various types of maps for grid systems, symbols, legends, scales, compass rose,
directions, longitude, latitude, and hemisphere.

3. Assessment: How and when will you determine the extent to which students have achieved the
lesson objectives?
The students created and identified features of maps with 80% accuracy and 100% participation.
4. Adaptations:
4.1 Gearing down
The teacher gives the students a partially filled in map with blank areas to identify and a word bank
of vocabulary words .
Gearing up
The teacher will ask the students to construct a drawing of more than one kind of map. The
students will be challenged to identify directions.
Integration:
Across: (subject) in integrated with (subject) when they _______.
Geography will be integrated with science when the students identify how maps can be useful for
identifying areas of potential area of natural disasters such as volcanoes.
Within: (topic) is integrated with (lesson topic) when they ______.
Geography will be integrated with history when the students discuss how map making has changed
over the years.
5. References/Resources Used: List in standard bibliographical style (author, date, title, publisher); provide
website in URL format.
7. Instructional Design Teaching Plan
7.1 Introduction
a. Anticipatory Set
The teacher will show the students a video of a topographic map and how it mimics the earths
surface.
b. Communication of Objectives:
Today we are going to learn about maps! We will make our own maps and talk about how they
can be used. Lets get started!
*7.2. Input
The teacher will show the video of the topographical map. The teacher will then show examples of
real maps. The teacher will then orally explain the different features of a map. The students will
then create their own maps that can be to a made up world or their own neighborhood. The teacher
will then have the students present their maps and talk about all the features of the maps.
*7.3 Modeling
The teacher will model example of maps that contain all of the components that maps need. The
teacher will model example of different kinds of maps so the students can see how maps can serve
different purposes.
*7.4 Guided Practice
The teacher will ask the students the vocabulary terms discussed in the lesson. The teacher will
project a map on the Smartboard and the students will underline and label the different parts of the
map.
*7.5 Checks for Understanding
The teacher will ask the students to place a note over a part of their map while they are creating it to
point out one of the features.
7.6 Independent Practice/Assignment
The students will complete a map that includes all the different components needed for a map
independently. The students will then share the maps and if time allows the students will create a
map of the school in teams of 5 and then see if other teams can follow their maps.
7.7. Closure, wrap-up
The teacher will review the lesson and the students will present their maps. As a at home challenge
the students can create different kinds of maps and see if their family can follow the maps.