Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

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Teachers: Subject:
Zach Regan, Elizabeth Hefington, James High School Science
Watkins, Ryne, Ryan Swapp

Common Core State Standards:

· HS.L2U1.19,HS.L4U3.18,

Objective (Explicit):
· At the end of this
lesson students will be able to identify interrelationships within an
ecosystem by diagraming their own example of a marine community.

Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):

¨ Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
¨ Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
¨ Assign value to each portion of the response.

Mastery: Students are able to flow diagram more than 6 interrelationships.

Intermediate: Students flow diagram 4-5 interrelationships.
Novice: Students flow diagram 3 or less interrelationships.

Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

¨ How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
¨ What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
¨ How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

*Understanding humans position in the earth’s ecosystem.

Key vocabulary: Materials:

Ecosystem
Interrelationships
Community

Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
¨ How will you activate student interest?
¨ How will you connect to past learning?
¨ How will you present the objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?
¨ How will you communicate its importance and make the content relevant to your students?

We will start our lesson by opening with an activity, which we will create an ecosystem
with the students.

Instructional Teacher Will: Student Will:

Input ¨ How will you model/explain/demonstrate all ¨ What will students be doing to actively
knowledge/skills required of the objective? capture and process the new material?
¨ What types of visuals will you use? ¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How will you address misunderstandings or
common student errors?
¨ How will you check for understanding?
¨ How will you explain and model behavioral
expectations?
¨ Is there enough detail in this section so that
another person could teach it?

We will state the objective at the beginning of Student will pay attention to objective
class; “today we will start by creating an
ecosystem.”
We will ask students to define what an Students will define what an ecosystem is.
ecosystem is and define it.
We will bring in materials.
Together with students we will decide the order Students will participate in creating an
that the materials go in. ecosystem.

Co-Teaching Strategy
¨ Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?
 Differentiation Strategy
¨ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
¨ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Guided Teacher Will: Student Will:

Practice ¨ How will you ensure that all students have
multiple opportunities to practice new content
and skills?
¨ What types of questions can you ask students
as you are observing them practice?
¨ How/when will you check for understanding?
¨ How will you provide guidance to all students
as they practice?
¨ How will you explain and model behavioral
expectations?
¨ Is there enough detail in this section so that
another person could facilitate this practice?
¨ How will students practice all knowledge/skills
required of the objective, with your support,
such that they continue to internalize the sub-
objectives?
¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How will you elicit student-to-student
interaction?
¨ How are students practicing in ways that align
to independent practice?

Together with students we will decide the order Student will participate in the activity
that the materials go in.
Student will ask questions when needed
I will answer questions they may have as we
create our ecosystem Student will come prepared and know how to
use material provided
“Why will BLANK be in this spot of our
ecosystem?”

Co-Teaching Strategy
¨ Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
¨ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
¨ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
¨ How can you utilize grouping strategies?
 Independent Teacher Will:
Practice ¨ How will you plan to coach and correct during
this practice?
¨ How will you provide opportunities for
remediation and extension?
¨ How will you clearly state and model academic
and behavioral expectations?
¨ Did you provide enough detail so that another
person could facilitate the practice?
Student Will:
¨ How will students independently practice the
knowledge and skills required by the objective?
¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How are students practicing in ways that align
to assessment?
¨ How are students using self-assessment to
guide their own learning?

¨ How are you supporting students giving

feedback to one another?

Teacher will walk around to each student and Students will work independent shortly then
checking work will be able to discuss with other class mates

If student is struggling teacher will ask guiding

questions instead of giving the answer

Co-Teaching Strategy
¨ Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
¨ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
¨ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:

¨ How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
¨ Why will students be engaged?

We will know how well students understood the material based on their completion on making
their own ecosystem diagram.

Tech suggestions: Nearpad, peardeck

https://www.biomanbio.com/HTML5GamesandLabs/EcoGames/succession_interactive.html