SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC DETAILS CK
Name Melanie Trzeciak
Subject History
Grade Level 3rd Grade
Date/Duration Two classes; 40 minutes each
Big Ideas Pennsylvania was built through innovation by many
people.
Essential Who were some people who built Pennsylvania?
Questions What kind of innovation formed PA?
What are the state symbols of PA?
How does Pennsylvanias geography relate to its
history?
How has Pennsylvania changed throughout history?
PA/Common Standard - 5.1.3.F
Core/Standards Identify state symbols, national symbols, and national
holidays.
Standard - 7.1.U.A
Use geographic tools to analyze information about
the interaction between people, places, and the
environment.
Standard - 8.2.3.C
Identify and describe how continuity and change have
impacted Pennsylvania history.
Belief systems and religions
Commerce and industry
Technology
Politics and government
Physical and human geography
Social organizations
Standard - 3.4.3.A3
Identify how the study of technology uses many
of the same ideas and skills as many other
subjects.
Standard - 3.4.3.A1
Identify how the natural made world and the
human made world are different.
Objective All 3rd grade students will accurately complete a lab
sheet in pairs while conducting a web quest on PA
Bloom's history with 90% accuracy.
Taxonomy

Webb's Depth of
Knowledge
(DOK)
Formative & Formative
Summative Lab sheet
Assessment Venn Diagram on similarities/differences of man made
Evidence world and natural world
Summative
Unit Test
ISTE Standards Students will use their research and information fluency
for Students to work toward the completion of their Pennsylvania lab
sheet.
Framework for
21st Century
Learning
Accommodation Jennifer will have access to a computer that is located
s, Modifications further away from the class if needed.
Jennifer can use books to complete web quest if she
need to use the quiet area in the room.
Intentional parting will be in place
Jennifer will use self management strategies that are in
place

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-by-Step

Procedures
RATIONALE for CK
the Learning
Plan
Introduction Activating Prior Knowledge
Students will watch a short video on PA history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-AXjouXvu0
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Students will play a kahoot.it game on PA state facts to
base their prior knowledge.
Explicit Big Idea Statement
Instructions Pennsylvania was built through innovation by many
people.
Essential Questions Statement
How was Pennsylvania built through innovation by many
people.
Objective Statement
All 3rd grade students will accurately complete a lab
sheet in pairs while conducting a web quest on PA
history with 90% accuracy.
Transition
Students will be assigned a pair to work with. Between
the pair there will be a shape, students will be assigned
an area to work based on their corresponding shape.
Key Vocabulary
State Symbols
 Graphic Tools
Belief systems
Commerce
Industry
Politics
Government
Social Organizations
Geography
Natural World
Man-Made World
Lesson PreAssessment of Students
Procedure Hook: Students will play a kahoot.it game on PA state
facts to base their prior knowledge.
Modeling of the Concept
The teacher will discuss each area of the lab sheet.
The teacher will open every site that is used in the web
quest and show students how to navigate the site.
Guiding the Practice
The teacher will ask questions based off of the lab sheet
and ask student what they would do in order to find the
information in the given site.
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will fill out the lab sheet with a partner will
visiting the assigned websites on the web quest.
Transition
Once finished, students will independently make a Venn
diagram of the similarities and difference of
Pennsylvania when it was natural and after it was
influenced by man
Reading Lab sheet
Materials Websites
Technology Paper
Equipment Pencils
Supplies
Venn Diagram handout
Shapes to identify groups
Submission Bin
Evaluation of Formal Evaluation
the Unit Test
Learning/Master Accurate completion of Lab Sheet
y of the Informal Evaluation
Concept Accurate completion of Venn diagram
Closure Summary & Review of the Learning
Once the entire class has finished the lab sheet, the
teacher will ask the lab sheet questions aloud and have
the class answer.
The teacher will prompt a discussion of the findings in a
think-aloud fashion.
 The teacher will ask students about using technology
and how it relates to other content areas and explain
how they were working on history content in a
technological environment.
Homework/Assignments
Students will finish the Lab Sheet and Venn diagram if
not completed
Teacher
Self-reflection