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Significant People in History, Who Wanted Equal

Rights for All
Author: Katie Duke

Revision Date of Lesson Plan: April 26, 2011

Overall Goal for the Lesson: This lesson is to get the kids familiar with the
people, who played a role in advocating civil rights for all people, no matter the
color of their skin. The people mentioned are Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman,
Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks. I want the students to be able to
understand who these people were, their birth, and their significance in History. I
used Kidspiration to demonstrate these goals.

Description of classroom, grade level, and students: This lesson will be taught to
a third grade classroom. We are teaching a unit on important figures in American
Culture.

Student Objectives for the lesson. (Given a condition, the students will, to what level). The
student will be able to have a good understanding of these significant people
listed by looking at this cluster map. Through this, the students will be able to
know their birth dates, and what they are known for in History. The student will
then be able to discuss and create their own Kidspiration using the same figures
from history. Instead, they will make the same cluster map with the names of
these individuals, their birthdates, and a new fact about this person through
research by using the internet or textbook.

Length of Lesson: (minutes, number of class periods, or days or weeks needed). The
duration of this whole class unit will be a week long. My lesson should take one
class period (which would be about 40 minutes).

Schedule of Activities: (Break down your activity into a timeline of events. Focus on what
students will be doing and what teachers will be doing during each part of the activity.) This
visual was made for students to look at while I discuss the people. After I talk
about these people in History (using the Smartboard), I will have the computer lab
reserved for this time. I will have each student do their individual work there,
again, creating their own Kidspiration. Note: The students are familiar with the
use of Kidspiration.
PASS Content Standards Addressed: Standard 2.2, 4: Write a brief personal
descriptive narratives (stories) with a consistent focus of a beginning, middle,
and ending that:
A. Present a logical sequence of events.
B. Develop a main idea
C. Use details to support the main idea
4. Make journal entries

PASS Instructional Technology Standards: Standard 6:1: Use technology

resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software)
for problem solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.

Assessments: How will these activities be assessed? (Go back to your objectives, what
will the students do? Make sure that each objective is paired to an assessment measure that
allows students to show it). Again, I will have the students create their own
Kidspiration and submit it to me by printing it out. This will be a participation
grade.

Accommodations: How might the lesson need to be adapted for students with
special needs? If a student has a physical disability, I may need to have a
volunteer or an aid to help assist their needs. The aid or volunteer could help
them write or type what they want to include in their Kidspiration. If the student is
deaf and can‘t hear the lecture, then a sign language interpreter will be needed.
With this said, I could have the student sit at a computer in the classroom, and
he/she could look at this closely while some one is signing to them the lecture.

Materials Needed: Computer (for teacher and students) and Smartboard