INQUIRY (5E) LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Teachers: Zach Regan Subject: Atmosphere Grade: 6-7

Common Core State Standards:

 6.E1U1.6, 6.L2U3.11
 7.E1U1.5
Objective (Explicit):
 SWBAT create and discuss questions about the atmosphere and the effects of global warming.
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

Student can formulate 2 reasons why global warming is getting worse and 2 ways to slow its effects as an exit ticket.

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 relative to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

 SWBAT use prior knowledge to understand and collaborate with their peers
 SWBAT explore reasons why a clean atmosphere is important

Key vocabulary: Materials:

Engage
 How will you activate prior knowledge?
 How will you hook student attention?
 What question will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
Dress as an “atmospheric chemist from the future” and speak with the Listen and ask any questions to the “atmospheric chemist” and
students and share the extreme weather/climate of future Earth. I will be respectful to whomever is speaking.
ask at the end, “How can we create a cleaner atmosphere today to save
our future?”

Explore
 How will you model your performance expectations? (Remember you are not modeling what you want students to discover but need to
model expected behavior or required procedures.)
 How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer the question posed in the
Engage?
 What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are “exploring”?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
Help students start asking questions and be sure that they have Get a laptop and start researching answers for the driving
recorded their questions in their portfolio’s question. They will form any questions they have about the
driving questions and put them in an online portfolio (Weebly).
Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
I will provide laptops and certain websites to get the students started on their research. As this is student driven learning, I will be able to
work closer to the students that need more help.
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Explain
 How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
 How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
 How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by answering the question from the
Engage before moving on?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
Create groups (since I know the students and how well they work with Discuss what they have found in their research and the questions
certain people) they need to know about the driving question. They will put these
questions and any answers that a peer has given them into the
portfolio.
Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
I will change groups as needed if the group members do not work as well as I’d planned or if some are further than others.
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Elaborate
 How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a particular aspect of this
learning at a deep level?
 How will students use higher order thinking at this stage (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a What If? Question)?
 How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Ask the “what if” questions to help drive critical thinking about their Present in their groups to the class about what information they
research. have found and any answers they obtained off their “need to
know questions”.

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
I will make sure everyone in the group speaks about their information they have found
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Evaluate
 How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the elaborate content)?
 How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the assessment)?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Collect the exit ticket and check their portfolio to see how their Formulate 2 reasons why global warming is getting worse and 2
thinking has grown ways to slow its effects as an exit ticket.