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School: Webber Middle School Grade Level: 7/8 Content Area: Visual Art
Lesson Idea/Topic and The lesson for digital photography will teach students to successfully plan,
Rational/Relevance: interpret, edit, produce, and critique an advertisement. In order to work
What are you going to with current technologies, students are expected to create a cohesive
teach and why is this advertisement using Adobe Photoshop. This is important to introduce this
lesson of importance to project to students because it is a real life gained skill, and can span into
your students? How is it other content areas. Students are surrounded with technology and need to
relevant to students of show proficiency with these skills.
this age and background?
Student Profile: Write a The class is mixed 7th and 8th graders. The learners can be engaged with they
narrative about your are interested. A main goal of this lesson is grabbing the students with
learners. What are their relevant ads they can relate with. Mixed into the class are a few students
special needs? with exceptional skills in using Photoshop. There are 2 special needs
Exceptionalities? students who have paras with them to assist in completing the assignment.
Giftedness? Alternative There are a group of five 8th grade boys who will need more motivation to
ways of learning? stay on task. Most of the girls in the class are able to stay on task. This lesson
Maturity? Engagement? will require persistence from myself, as Photoshop is a very extensive and
Motivation? challenging program.
Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards directly from the standard)
Utilize current and available technology to refine an idea, and create original and imaginative works of
art.
Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select
applicable questions from standards
Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
sense out of what has just been taught.
“Any Questions? No. OK, let’s move on” is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
How do you intend to engage your
students in thinking during CLOSURE? The strategy I intend to use is __________________________________________
Why are you using it at this point in your I am using this strategy here because:
lesson?
1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize assessment data connected to
the learning target(s) to justify your level of achievement)
2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would you make if you were to
teach again?
3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice, reteach content, etc.)