Blended Learning Lesson Plan

Lesson Title: Follow The Signs

Objectives:
Students will practice and learn how to sign all 26 letters of the American Sign Language (ASL)

alphabet. Furthermore, they will also examine the importance of verbal and nonverbal forms of

communication within our classroom, society, the world, and across all subjects (language arts,

history, art etc). Lastly, students will demonstrate their understanding of ASL alphabet by

learning to sign their names and presenting to the class a different form of communication that

they have researched that does not include speech.

State Standards: Language Arts

3.2 Create presentations using videos, photos, and other multimedia elements to support
communication and clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Language Arts
5.2 Articulate clearly a message using figurative language, dialogue, idioms, adages, proverbs,
and imagery when appropriate to impact the audience.

Context:
This lesson plan puts an emphasis on how important communication is and how we rely

on it heavily as a community everyday in many aspects of our lives. However the key to the

lesson is to also emphasize that there are also different ways to communicate that is not just

through verbal means.

This segment of the unit will transition students into different forms of communication

within language, reading, writing, and comprehension. American Sign Language can be used as

in fun introductory segway into Social Studies and the study of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, or
the introduction music, or the study of geography where other countries and languages are

introduced.

Materials:
-Flashcards / for practicing each letter of the alphabet
-markers
-posters
-colored pencils
-scotch tape
- Alphabet (ASL) demo sheet
-Interactive (ASL) youtube tutorial
-projector
-computer

Procedures:
Introduction (10 minutes):
The introduction of this unit consists of the importance of verbal and nonverbal forms of

communication within our classroom, society, and in the world. I will survey the class to see

what kinds of languages students speak at home with their parents, guardians, and or siblings. I

will explain that by the end of the lesson, students will learn a new language! Also, they will be

able to have their own secret language and will be able to sign their names.

Teacher Directed (15 minutes):

As a class, we will watch the ASL tutorial video and follow the movements of the hand in the

video as they navigate through the ASL alphabet. I will be pausing and playing the video as the

signs a letter are displayed and the class is practicing as a whole. This video serves as an ice-
breaker into the world of American Sign Language. After the video is finished, we will move

onto our collaborative practice.

Collaborative (20 minutes):

Practicing with a partner, students will pair share what they have learned and take turns going

through each letter again at their own pace and possible feedback from their partner. Using the

ASL visual demonstration worksheet as a guide, students can refer to the sheet as a reference

to the hand motions and gestures. As a class, we will watch the video once again after 20 minutes

of practice.

Independent Digital (20--minutes):

Students will research an alternative form of communication that is present in the world

and illustrate how it is important to communication through the research of videos, visual aids,

photos, or diagrams the importance of their method (examples of non-verbal communication:

Echolocation, usage of traffic signs for communicating the rules of the road, music as a form of

communication, smileys and emoticons as communication, etc.)

Closure (05minutes):

A game of telephone with the entire class will conclude the unit on communication.

Now when we study historic civilizations, geography, biology, and the arts, we can refer to how

communication is integrated within those respective subjects.

Rationale:

(Multimedia 1= App or website):

This visual aid of the signed alphabet is crucial to the lesson as it helps hands-on learners and

kinesthetic learnings to have a reference point. Students who like to work with their hands will

enjoy this part of the lesson while also being able to improve their hand coordination and motor

skills when trying to sign the alphabet. By pairing with a partner, this greatly improves the 6.)

Interaction Usability of this media. Furthermore, if the sheet is printed out, it can be used in the

future anytime (7. Reusability).

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(Multimedia 2= App, website, video, educational game, song, podcast, etc.):

This tutorial video of a human hand is vital for visual learners because it helps to engage the

students who learn best through someone else performing the actions and mirroring them as they

go. The video is great because it goes through each letter of the alphabet at a time and allows the

teacher the freedom to pause and play as he or she pleases. This lets the teacher control the speed

at which the alphabet is progressing they can focus on letters that are more difficult to sign.

Lastly, the annotations within the video allow you to jump to any letter of the alphabet as the

teacher pleases without having to scroll through the video to find exactly where a certain letter is.

The 1.) Content Quality is very rich and clear. The 5.) Presentation Design of the video is well

articulated and executed with built-in annotation navigation and provides a very unique way of

practicing the content. The media provides room for 2.) Feedback and Adaptation It supports

learning by providing a way for students of different learning modalities to follow the content.
URL: https://youtu.be/6_gXiBe9y9A