FRANKLIN COLLEGE

Education Department
Field School Lesson Plan
Name: Evan Shields_______________________________Lesson Number________1_____________
Subject Area__ _Government_______________________Grade Level______12_________________
Date___3/3/15________________________Start time___7:40 AM___End time_____8:40
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Cooperating Teachers
Signature_______________________________________________________________________
Topic/Concept/Skill:
To have the students understand the concept of congressional districting
Related Standard:
USG.1.9 Evaluate how the United States Constitution establishes majority rule while
protecting minority rights and
Balances the common good with individual liberties. (History; Individuals, Society and
Culture)
Background:
Use Prior Knowledge, Their notes from the previous day, Handout (Provided by
Teacher), and YouTube video
Main Objective of Instruction:
In order to understand the concept of congressional districting and gerrymandering,
TWSBAT and be able to put even congressional districts in that state as well as be
able to be given a made and gerrymander the map to where one of the two political
parties have more power in the state given handed a blank map of one of our 50
states In a 60 minutes allotted for class.
Teacher Materials/Resources:
Computer with internet access, Projection screen, documents, and pen/highlighter,
Document Camera worksheet keys
Student Materials:
Pencil, Two Color Pens (provided by teacher), Documents (Provided by Teacher)
worksheet
Anticipatory Set (Introductory Approach):
What I am going to do is show a short funny YouTube showing how even though
congress has a very orderly structure there can still be mistakes made. (Visual
Learning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZMQBVR4PQg (5 Min)

Instructional Procedures (Whole Group):

1. Greet the Students as then walk in
2. Show the YouTube Video and ask the student to write down what they thought
about the video and then get into groups and talk about the video that they just

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saw. While this is happening I will walk around and see if there are any
questions. (Think, Pair and Share) (Visual &Verbal) (12 min)
Walk in front of the class (1 Min)
Have a group discussion about the video (5 Min) Debrief by finishing with: Even
Congress has a few flaws
Pass out the blank map of Puerto Rico (2 Min)
Put The population density map up on screen using document camera(1Min)
Explain the map
Fictionally Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state
Votes in real life have gone back and forth
Explain to the students map project: (3 Min)
Draw the 9 districts

Color red (republican) and blue (democrats)

Gerrymander it to where one of the two parties has more power than the
other

9. I will have them work on their own map. Will walk around making sure that
everybody is on task and answer any questions. (10 Min)
10.
Bring the class together and put up my version of the map on the screen
using the document camera
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I am going to bring up a PowerPoint with questions on it (1 Min)
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Ask the students the questions on the slides (To see what they already
know) then I will teach them what the content of the slides for the students who
dont know what it is (10 Min)
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Debrief with any questions the students might have (5 min)
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Administer closure and explain to the students what they need to do
Write down three things that you learned.
Answer the two questions in one sentence.
Write down one thing that you would like to know more about.
15.
When the bell ring tell the students to have a nice rest of the day.
Provisions for Individual and/or Group Differences:
Each person will have their own different version of the map because I have giving
them creative control to have their map be gerrymandered anyway that they want to.
Closure:
I will give them a ticket to leave I will do the 3 2 1 activity. They will write 3 things
that they learned. Answer the two questions What is Gerrymandering? and What
determines the amount of districts a state has? They will also write one thing that
they would like to learn more about. (10 Min)
Evaluation of Learning:
I will put a map on a future test to make sure that the students can create a map with
previsions that I give them. One of the previsions is that they will have to
gerrymander the map to where one of the two political parties will have more power
than the other.
Independent Practice:
I will give them homework by a blank map of the districts of Indiana. What they have
to do is number the districts and find the name of the congressman or women of that
particular district and what party they are a member of. For people who did not quite
get it I we give them an example of a correctly drawn map and have then read over it
and then recreate the map so they can obtain a better understanding of the concepts.

For the students who do understand the concept I will have them look up an article on
how Gerrymander can effect American politics.