Using your class profile, the theme from Topic 1, and the “COE Lesson Plan Template,” design an integrated social studies lesson plan that incorporates English language arts and the creative arts (music, theater, dance, or visual arts). You can use the same standards you selected in Topic 1 or choose new standards for this assignment.
Part 1: Lesson Plan Preparation
Lesson Summary: A brief summary of the lesson that identifies the central focus based on the content skills you are teaching.
Classroom Factors: Describe the student demographics and classroom environment, including students with exceptionalities. Discuss how these factors affect planning, teaching, and assessing students. This information will inform the differentiation of the lesson.
State/National Standards: Using the selected class profile, list the targeted social studies, ELA, and art early childhood standards or content standards the lesson will be supporting. These may be the same standards used in the Topic 1 assignment, or new standards.
Specific Learning Targets/Objectives: Social studies, ELA, and art objectives aligned with the selected early childhood standards or content standards.
Academic Language: Key terms for the lessons (this often becomes the vocabulary used throughout the lesson) and strategies for teaching the terms and allowing students time to practice.
Resources, Materials, Equipment, and Technology needed for this lesson.
Part 2: Instructional Planning
Anticipatory Set: Explain how you will introduce the lesson and activate prior knowledge to trigger students’ curiosity and engagement in the lesson.
Multiple Means of Representation: Explain how the content will be presented in various ways and differentiated for students from the class profile.
Multiple Means of Engagement: Describe the engagement strategies and how they will allow students to explore, practice, and apply the skills needed to meet the social studies, ELA, and art objectives.
Multiple Means of Expression: Explain the formative and summative assessments that will be used to monitor student progress and modify instruction.
Extension/Homework: Identify extension activities or homework and explain how the tasks support the learning objectives as well as help students generalize learning outside of the classroom.
Support your work with 2-3 scholarly resources.
