Unit Plan: The News in the Community

Lesson Plan for Wednesday

Grade: 2nd
Social Studies Strand: History
Submitted By: Courtney Donnelly


EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science
Nevada State College Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Powell
Lesson Plan for Wednesday Strand: history submitted by: Courtney D

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B. Summary of the Lesson Plan:
For todays 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:
Computer
Paper 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 thats 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?
Lesson Plan for Wednesday Strand: history submitted by: Courtney D

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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.
Ill 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 dont 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?