Educator/Group Names: Tamara Nolan
Grade level: 3rd
Subject: Earth Science
Date of lesson: 07/12/2017
Length of lesson: 1 hour/3days
Lesson Topic: Utilize Online Reading and Comprehension to help students research, discuss, and organize a project depicting 5 different types of major earth formations. (Volcanoes, Mountains, Valleys, Trenches, Islands, Canyon)
Overall Goal: (Broad action statement using non action verbs) “Students will understand that…”
The earth has many different types of formations that are naturally created by earth processes.
Learner Background: (This addresses why the lesson is being taught.) Describe the students’ prior knowledge or skill related to the learning objective(s).
Students will have prior knowledge of the Earth’s composition and layers (including tectonics and the magnetic field) They will have web research experience but will build on this by searching for material online and practicing good web reading habits. They will use the gathered data to build an online map, pinpointing several major formations.
Curricular Standards: Identify the primary state standard(s) this lesson is designed to help students attain. (If required, include the national and/or local standards as well.)
Compare Earth’s land features (including volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands) by using models, pictures, diagrams, and maps.
Describe how features form
Utilize online reading and comprehension to gather information on an example for each feature.
Utilize online map making to pinpoint and label each feature example
Student Learning Objective(s): Identify specific and measurable learning objectives for this lesson. Use action verbs. “Students will be able to….”
Recognize land forms and name them
Give famous examples of each type of land feature
Discuss how each feature is formed
Describe good online reading habits
Collect online information
Organize information on a map
Assessment:
Part I: Describe how you will check for student understanding during the lesson. (Formative)
Students will use the class twitter accounts to post on the hashtag #whatstuckwithmetoday at the end of each class period to describe what they learned and will post to the hashtag #lookingtolearnmore to describe what they need more clarification on, or what they are interested in
Part II: How will you ask students to demonstrate mastery of the student learning objective(s)? Attach a copy of any assessment materials you will use, along with assessment criteria/rubric. (Formative or Summative)
Final assessments will be made by evaluating the online maps created and the information pinned to each location.
Rubric:
Category Scoring Criteria Total Points Score
Organization
(15 points) Information is pinned in the correct location 20
Each of the six or more landforms are 20
represented on the map
Content Information about each landform is correct 20
(45 points)
Information for each landform was searched for and 20
synthesised from several online sources
Interesting fact about each landform is included 20
Score Total Points 100
Materials/Resources: List the materials you will use in each learning activity including any technological resources.
A computer for each student
Smart Board to demonstrate effective online reading &
Used to display pictures/slides of each landform
The Lesson
Initiation:
Part I - Briefly describe how you will introduce the lesson, engage students in the lesson and connect it to previous learning. (This is intended to motivate students.)
Good Morning Class. First, I would like to get a feel for your knowledge of landforms. Can you please give me some examples? Has anyone here ever gone to visit any famous landforms? Now we just finished learning about the earth’s composition. Can anyone tell me how what’s inside the earth and plate tectonics might be related to landforms?
(Answers will vary)
Great!
Part II – (This is intended to bridge to the lesson: set expectations for learning, articulate to learners what they will be learning in this lesson and why this is important).
Ok class, besides being pretty to look at sometimes, why are landforms important to us? Why do we care to know or understand them? How do they affect our lives?
(Answers will vary)
Awesome!
Lesson Development: Describe how you will develop the lesson: what you will do to model or guide practice and the learning activities students will be engaged in to gain the key knowledge and skills identified in the student learning objective(s). Include the questions you will ask, identify and explain the instructional grouping (whole class, small groups, pairs, individuals) for each lesson segment, and include the approximate times for each. Indicate how diversity will be included. Include reference to Bloom’s taxonomy to identify higher levels of thinking.
Okay, so earths formations are really cool, some of them are cooler than others in my opinion. Like volcanoes. Who likes volcanoes? Who has ever seen an eruption? Play video.
Alright, so we are going to learn more about volcanoes as well as other types of landforms. I am passing out this handout so that you can take some notes as we go through the slide. Don't worry about writing too much. You will be researching more about each landform later.
Students will define, list and identify landforms as we go through slide
(Go through slide and describe/ explain each formation)
Does anyone have any questions?
Please do your daily assessment on the twitter accounts now!
Next day:
Review
Okay class, let's review by watching this cool video!
Okay we will begin our project today. We will be researching online to find information about the world most famous landforms. First I want to review what make us a good online researcher? Everyone has their computers and I want you all to follow along with me as we take a few moments to talk about being an effective web reader. If anyone has any tips, please let me know so that we can share them with the class.
(Model effective online reading by searching for formations)
Okay, now everyone take the rest of the class period to search for information on the landforms listed on your handout. I want you to collect data about the landform and at least one interesting fact. We will use all of this information tomorrow to make an online map. Please be sure to write down the source address from which you took your information.
Students will spend the rest of the time locating, selecting, examining, and critiquing information for project
(I will spend the rest of the class walking around helping students)
Class is over- please take a moment to post your #whatstuckwithmetoday and #lookingtolearnmore
Day three:
Okay, now that we have compiled all the information that we need we will go to this website and create our own maps pinpointing the location and information that you found yesterday.
(I will pull up the website and write an example for the students)
Let me know if anyone needs any help. I will be walking around. You will submit your map at the end of the class!
Students will spend time organizing, assembling, and creating a map of information.
Closure: Briefly describe how you will end the lesson, help students understand the purpose of the lesson, and show how it will connect to future learning. (Interact with learners to elicit evidence of student understanding of purpose(s) for learning and mastery of objectives)
Great Job Today!
I am interested in knowing how you guys feel about landforms now that you all know so much? Does anyone think that they are cool, lame, not interesting at all? Do you guys know how many neat jobs there are that can be centered around studying and exploring landforms? As humans we really do utilize a lot of these earth features, like the beach, mountains (people love to ski), islands, and lakes(people love to ski). It is important for you to know these as you grow, to know the potential dangers that involved in being in or around them and also the potential benefits!