This document provides a lesson plan for teaching 4th grade students about the human and physical characteristics of the Southeast region of the United States. The 55-minute lesson uses videos, guided notes, worksheets, and a menu board assessment. Students will work in small groups rotating between three centers focused on physical characteristics, human characteristics, and Southeast facts. They will fill out guided notes and worksheets at each center. To assess learning, students will choose an option from a menu board like creating a skit or song to demonstrate their knowledge of the Southeast region. The lesson connects to developing an understanding of what makes different regions unique and a theme of appreciating what makes one's own home special.
This document provides a lesson plan for teaching 4th grade students about the human and physical characteristics of the Southeast region of the United States. The 55-minute lesson uses videos, guided notes, worksheets, and a menu board assessment. Students will work in small groups rotating between three centers focused on physical characteristics, human characteristics, and Southeast facts. They will fill out guided notes and worksheets at each center. To assess learning, students will choose an option from a menu board like creating a skit or song to demonstrate their knowledge of the Southeast region. The lesson connects to developing an understanding of what makes different regions unique and a theme of appreciating what makes one's own home special.
This document provides a lesson plan for teaching 4th grade students about the human and physical characteristics of the Southeast region of the United States. The 55-minute lesson uses videos, guided notes, worksheets, and a menu board assessment. Students will work in small groups rotating between three centers focused on physical characteristics, human characteristics, and Southeast facts. They will fill out guided notes and worksheets at each center. To assess learning, students will choose an option from a menu board like creating a skit or song to demonstrate their knowledge of the Southeast region. The lesson connects to developing an understanding of what makes different regions unique and a theme of appreciating what makes one's own home special.
This document provides a lesson plan for teaching 4th grade students about the human and physical characteristics of the Southeast region of the United States. The 55-minute lesson uses videos, guided notes, worksheets, and a menu board assessment. Students will work in small groups rotating between three centers focused on physical characteristics, human characteristics, and Southeast facts. They will fill out guided notes and worksheets at each center. To assess learning, students will choose an option from a menu board like creating a skit or song to demonstrate their knowledge of the Southeast region. The lesson connects to developing an understanding of what makes different regions unique and a theme of appreciating what makes one's own home special.
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The Southeast Region
Name: Taylor Woodruff
Time Allotted: 55 minutes th Grade Level: 4 Grade Subject(s): Social Studies Materials Required: (create a bulleted list, including texts -- books and articles-- using APA format) -Guided Notes - Menu Board Option Assessment and Rubric - Computer/iPad - Southwest Worksheet Encyclopedia Britannica ( 2007). Southeastern United States. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DPRvH2QMk MrVescoourthGrade (2011). Southeast Region Song. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZDqPyHNX_A Russ, Jill (2013). The Southeast Region. Russ Resources. Retrieved from http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/SShea/files/southeastrevised.pdf Zane Education. (2010). The South East States: Location and physical features. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPE-Kled5v8 Michigan Content Expectations: S.S. Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE), E.L.A. or Math Common Core State Standard (CCSS) or Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) include both the code AND fully written out expectation.
4 G1.0.4 Use geographic tools and technologies, stories, songs, and pictures to answer geographic questions about the United States. Objective(s): Objective 1: The student will identify human and physical characteristics of the Southeast region by using geographic tools, technologies, songs, and pictures so that the student can create a final project where they describe the southeast region, and earn a 3/4 on the rubric. Assessment: Objective 1 Informal Formative Assessment: Informal formative assessment is weaved throughout the lesson through observations of the students. Most of this observation will take place when the students working in the centers.
Objective 1 Formal Formative Assessment: Formal formative assessment will be done
through the use of the use of the guided notes during the center work.
Objective 1 Formal Interim/Summative Assessment: The summative assessment for
this lesson will be the menu board assessment. The students will be creating a final project to display their knowledge of the southeast region.
The data generated will be used to first monitor the students learning. If I see that the students are not proficient during the formative assessment stage, I will use that information to go back and reteach part of the lesson. The data collected from the summative assessment will allow for me to determine whether or not the students have learning the information about the Northeast region. Instructional Procedure: 1. Anticipatory Set: (Allotted Time 6 minutes) a. To begin the lesson, I am going to have the students write down as many states as they can think of in the southeast region. I will give them 1 minute to write down the states. b. From there, I am going to play the YouTube video that introduces the southeast region. i. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZDqPyHNX_A c. After the video, I am going to explain that throughout the last few lessons we have been learning about the 5 regions of the United States. This is going to scaffold them to our next standard of comparing the regions to the Midwest. d. I am going to let the students know that today they will be learning about the different human and physical characteristics of the southeast region. e. I will remind the students that they need to be respectful to both their classmates and to the teacher. 2. State Purpose and Objective of Lesson: (Allotted Time__1 minute_) a. I will tell the students today they are going to be learning about the human and physical characteristic of the southeast region. b. I will tell the students this is important for them to learn because we are going to take this information we learn today and compare the different regions together. c. This lesson connects to both the previous and upcoming lessons. There will be a lesson for each of the regions, and then after those lessons we will be using the information and knowledge learned to complete the final lesson. The lesson will be taking one of the regions we learned about and compare it to the region Michigan belongs to, which is the Midwest. This is connecting to our overall theme of Theres no place like home because we are dive into what makes our region so great to live in! 3. Instruction: (Allotted Time 30 minutes) You may want to break the times out by DII, Modeling, GP and IP to make sure youve planned effectively) a. Direct Interactive Instruction: i. Describe what the teacher will do TTW
ii. Describe what the student will do TSW
b. Modeling: i. I am going to hand out the guided notes worksheet to the students and explain how they are to fill them out while going to the different centers. I will give a few examples of the human and physical characteristics for the students to put on their worksheet to get an idea of what they need to do. ii. After this, I will explain that we will be working in centers today to learn about the human and physical characteristics of the southeast region. c. Guided Practice: i. The students will be broken into groups to move through the 3 different centers. The 3 centers will be: 1. Physical Characteristics a. The students will begin this center by watching a short YouTube video of the physical characteristics of the southeast region: i. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Mc6szhQY46A b. During the video the students will be filling out the guided notes. Once they have completed the video, they will discuss with their group what information they found within the video. c. Once the students have finished with that video and filled out their chart, they will begin to watching this video on the southeast region i. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=N_DPRvH2QMk 2. Human Characteristics: a. The students will be at a table looking at an informative worksheet that has multiple human characteristics of the southeast on it. They will fill out their worksheet while they read through the worksheet. 3. Physical and Human Characteristic / Southeast Facts: a. In this center, the students will be exploring a weebly that has been made that displays both human and physical characteristics of the southeast region. They will use the information on this site to fill out their guided notes. i. http://southeastregion2013.weebly.com/humancharacteristics.html ii. Throughout this time, I will be walking around to the students to make sure they are getting all the information they need to. d. Independent Practice (10 minutes): When the students have completed their center work and the worksheets without any errors, I will give them their independent practice. They will be selecting an
option from the menu board to represent the knowledge they have learned about the human and physical characteristics of the southeast region. The students will have the remainder of the class period to finish the assessment and it will be homework if they do not finish it. 4.
Differentiated Consideration (Adjust instruction and assessments, tools, resources or
activities for students who): a. Multiple Intelligences weaved throughout the lesson to meet the needs of all types of learners: b.
a. With the last 10 minutes of class, I will bring the students all back together to conclude the lesson. I will restate the objectives for the students from the lesson. b. To have the students summarize the objectives and what they have learned, they will be given a piece of paper that resembles a yellow brick, from the yellow brick road. On the brick they will write one complete the sentence Theres no place like home because... The students will write one way there is no place like home in regards to the lesson they have created. This brick will be their ticket out of the door for each lesson. After each lesson the brick will be added to the yellow brick road, leading the students one step closer to Oz.
c. The students can share with a partner about why theres no place like home based on the lesson. i. An example would be Theres no place like home because the Midwest Region is the breadbasket of the United States. d. This lesson connects to our theme of Theres No Place like Home because they will be identifying different aspects of how their home is unique. Each lesson throughout this thematic unit will be building the students knowledge of what makes their home unique. 6. References: Encyclopedia Britannica ( 2007). Southeastern United States. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DPRvH2QMk MrVescoourthGrade (2011). Southeast Region Song. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZDqPyHNX_A Zane Education. (2010). The South East States: Location and physical features. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPE-Kled5v8
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