Kayla NapierCI 350Harold BlancoSeptember 29, 2013

Lesson One

I. Analyze the Learners: I will be teaching a class of twenty-five fifth grade students

who are between ten and eleven years old. There are twelve girls and thirteen boys,

four of whom are African Americans. Overall, there are numerous ways that my

students learn. Thus, I will be incorporating a variety of teaching strategies in order

to ensure that all of my students can easily comprehend the material.

II. State Objectives: My fifth grade students will list and describe the economic and

cultural differences between the North and South prior to the Civil War by utilizing

cooperative learning groups, reenactment, online research, maps, videos, blogs, and

journaling by the end of the day with 95% accuracy.

III. Select Methods, Media, and Materials: In order to appeal to a variety of learning

styles, I will be utilizing the following media, methods, and materials throughout this

lesson:

Computer Lab: The students will be using computers to research information

regarding the cultural and economic differences of the North and South.

Role-play: As one of my activities, I will allow students to share the

information they have gathered regarding the different ways of life in the

North and South through the utilization of role-play.

Maps: I will display maps of the North and South prior to the Civil War

Digital Story Telling Video and Instructional video: I will incorporate my digital

storytelling video as well as an instructional video throughout this lesson.

Blogs: Students will create a blog about life prior to the Civil War.

IV. Utilize Media and Material: Prior to class, I will preview all materials and electronic

devices that will be incorporated into the lesson. Also, I will prepare a checklist of

the criteria that my students will be required to incorporate into their journal

entries/blogs. This rubric will be printed off prior to class, so that every student will

receive a copy. Also for this lesson, I will divide the classroom into two large areas

labeled the North and the South. Thus I will have the tables grouped together in

each “section” of the room, which will allow for group collaboration. When

arranging the seating, I will leave plenty of space at the front of the classroom for

role-play/reenactment.

V. Require Learner Participation: To introduce the lesson, we will have a class

discussion regarding the economic and cultural differences of the North and South

prior to the Civil War. To make this class discussion more meaningful, I will display a

map to denote the geographical differences and similarities between the two

regions of the country that may have influenced the life styles and economies of

those living in the North and South. (This will appeal to my visual learners.) I will

then incorporate my digital storytelling video and instructional video to further

explain the rising tension between each region. Following whole-class instruction, I

will divide the class into two large sections labeled as the North and South. Students

from each group will then research their region’s economy and culture, including

facts about an individual’s average salary, types of employment, housing, average

educational status, and agriculture. After researching this information, each student

will then write a blog, which must contain facts from the his or her research and

must be set in that time period explaining what life was like in that region prior to

the war. After everyone has completed this assignment, I will allow volunteers to

reenact what they believe life may have been like at that time. This will help the

students to differentiate between the different ways of life in the North and South,

which ultimately resulted in tension and sectionalism.

VI. Evaluate and Revise: To evaluate my students and check for comprehension, I will:

Circulate throughout the room asking students questions,

Check for student participation,

Grade student blogs as to whether or not they contain:

o Facts from research (including salary, housing, educational status of

people living in that region)

o Written from a historic perspective

o Consists of two paragraphs