ED 345 Calvin College Teacher Intern Lesson Plan Template

Teacher Intern: Katie Fasse Date: 11/20/18

Grade Level: 1st Subject/ Topic: History
Approx. time spent planning this lesson: 45 minutes *The template will expand as text is added.*
DOMAIN 1: PLANNING & PREPARATION
Main Focus/Essential Questions: How family life was different in the past and in the present
Brief Context: The students have already done some work with completing their family trees. Now we will transititon
into thinking about family life and how that has changed over the years.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills: life in the past and present
Lesson Objectives/Learning Targets Aligned Assessments
Consider formative & summative tools
Please number objectives and the aligned assessment measures.
The learner will: I will assess learning by:
1. Compare and contrast life in the past 1. Their responses for the ven-diagram
2. Fill out their post-assessment 2. Their post assessment

Standards Addressed in Lesson: (Include full standard.)

1 – H2.0.6 Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication.
1 – H2.0.5 Use historical records and artifacts (e.g., photos, diaries, oral histories, and videos) to draw possible
conclusions about family or school life in the past.
Instructional Resources:
Schools of the Past, Present, and Future by Linda Bozzo
Ven-diagram template from Teacher’s Pay Teachers
Consideration of Learners:
How have you responded to your diverse learners? Consider UDL (Multiple means of Engagement, Representation,
Action & Expression) & principles of differentiation. If appropriate, identify individual accommodations you will make
in response to needs or interests of students.

I have responded to my diverse learners. We will start with reading a book about school life in the past and present. We
will also look at pictures of school life in the past. Finally, we will write down differences and similaries on a ven-diagram
in order to help all of the students understand that life has changed.

DOMAIN 2: THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

COVENANT MANAGEMENT: Relationship & community building questioning, positivity

CONDUCT MANAGEMENT: (Behavioral expectations, strategies to encourage self- regulation, etc.)

Identify at least 2 ways you will gain whole group attention: clapping, counting, “knock knock”
Strategies you intend to use to redirect individual students: saying name, taking chips, sending back

CONTENT MANAGEMENT: writing at their desks

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: part of the lesson at circle and part of the lesson at desks

DOMAIN 3: INSTRUCTION
CONTENT MANAGEMENT: YOUR INSTRUCTION
Motivation/Opening/Intro: ( 7 minutes)
- Start singing “criss cross”
- Did anyone go home and ask parents/grandparents about what life was like for them?
 - Students share
- Does anyone remember about what the book talked about the school? – it was schoolhouse and it was also a
church
- That’s right! Now we are going to read about schools in the past and present
- Read the book to the students then ask them to go and gather in front of the screen
Development: (40 minutes)
- Once the students are at the screen then pull of pictures from one room schoolhouses
- Say that these are some pictures of schools in the past
- Instead of a whole big school with different rooms for different grades all of the students were taught in one
room
- There was one teacher for all of the kids! But remember the book said that not all kids went to school
- Some kids had to work or help out at home
- Remember the book we read yesterday and how the kid had to help at home
- Can you quietly go to your desks?
- Pass out the ven-diagrams
- Put the ven-diagram on the overhead
- Say that we are going to make a ven-diagram of school life
- Does anyone remember what a ven-diagram is? – circles with things that happen on both sides and what
happen in both in the middle
- Good job! So lets label the left the past and the right the present
- What are some things from the books, the pictures, or what you already know about the past or present?
- Fill out the ven-diagram with the students
- Remind students about what happens in both the past and present
- After students are done they can put them in the in-bin and sit at their desks with their hands folded
- Now we are going to review a little bit
- What is a month? A week? A date?
- What is a family tree?
- A timeline?
- Past, present, and future?
- I will pass back a test for you to take
- Remember this test helps me know if I taught well or not!
- You may grab clipboards and flop
- I will red the questions for you and go!
- Read the questions on the overhead
- Walk around and help as needed

Closure: (3 minutes)
- Students can put their tests in the in bin
- Then put their clipboards away
- Finally, students should sit at their desks with their hands folded and get ready for the next activity!

DOMAIN #4: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM: looking up different texts to use

REFLECTION AFTER TEACHING THE LESSON: