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Work Sample Title:
Change Is All Around |
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Lesson Title/Topic:
Guest Speaker |
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School: Fallon Park
Elementary |
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Grade:3 |
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Grouping Strategy:
Large Group |
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Date: Nov. 21, 2003 |
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I.
Identifying Desired
Results
a. Enduring Understandings: Natural phenomena continuously change the earth.
b. Essential Questions
Entry-Point Question-How do natural disasters effect people?
Essential Question-How do natural disaster affect the earth?
Unit Question-How do natural events affect the earth?
c. Content-Natural
Disasters, friendly letter, heading, body, closing.
d. Materials and Resources-Notebook paper, guest speaker, three stamps, manila
envelope, overhead, pencil, friendly letter overhead example.
e. Virginia Standards of Learning-
Science
3.10- The student will investigate
and understand that natural events and human influences can affect the survival
of a species.
English
3.10-The student will write short
reports across all content areas: Letters
f.
Objectives
Content Objectives-
The student will know
and understand how natural disasters affect the earth and its people.
The student will know
and understand the three main parts of a friendly letter.
Process Objectives-The student will write a friendly letter to the guest
speaker with comments and questions from the presentation.
Value Objectives-The student will appreciate how natural disasters
affect our world.
II.
Determine Acceptable
Evidence
a. Assessment Strategies-The student will write a friendly letter to the
guest speaker. This letter will include
comments, questions and at least one example of something they learned from the
presentation. This letter will include a heading, body and closing.
b. Assessment Tools-Friendly letter
III.
Planning Learning
Experiences
a. Type of Lesson-Large Group
b. Specific Instructional Strategy- Guest speaker, discussion
c. Consideration of Diversity-Students with learning disabilities will be assisted
in writing the friendly letter. Two
students will verbalize their letter and the teacher will write it.
d. Procedure
A. The teacher will have the students brainstorm about
some natural disasters or events we have talked about.
B. The responses will be written on the white board.
C. The teacher will explain to the students that “Today,
we will be hearing a speaker from the Science Museum of Western Virginia. She will be talking about some of these
natural disasters we have studied. She will also be discussing some we have not
studied. Listen or take notes about
questions or comments you may have.
After she leaves today, we will be writing her a letter about the
presentation”.
D. The speaker will give a presentation.
E. The students and teacher will thank the speaker for
coming.
F. Using the overhead, the teacher will show an example
of a friendly letter. The teacher will
discuss the three main parts: heading, body and closing.
G. The students will write a friendly letter to the
speaker including the following information: questions regarding the
presentation, comments, and at least one thing they learned. This letter should include a heading, body,
and closing.
H. The students will seal the letters and hand them in
to the teacher.
I.
The teacher will
mail the letters all together in a manila envelope.
e.
Closure-The students and teacher will hold a class discussion
about the presentation. The students
may share the comments they put in their letters.
IV.
Analysis of Technology
Media
a. What technology did I use? - Internet, white board,
overhead
b. If you did or did not use technology, support your
choice.-I used the Internet to find the guest speaker. This project would not have been possible
without the Internet or the guest speaker.
c. What technology might you use, if it were available?
–I might film the presentation.