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Grade Level:
Social Studies
This activity is intended to focus on developing critical thinking, research, reading and writing skills in Students by making students motivated about learning necessary facts about United States, its demographics, history and distinctive attributes of U.S.
Education Standards Addressed
This particular lesson plan adheres to the Education Standard of United States (Teaching standards of the respective states)
Enable students to develop report writing skills by following a given template.
Enable students to develop and demonstrate their understanding regir undertsanding e elop report writing skills by fts about United States, its demographics arding overall geography of the states, its history, important places of tourists interests, structure of the government, general economy, and demography
Enable the students to understand the report making process and develop reports using electronic tools such word processor and other softwares. The activity will also focus on developing graphs and necessary tables as well.
report
Resources Needed:
1) Pencil
2) Notebook
3) Computer
4) BOOKS: Suid, Murrey & Wanda Lincoln, Recipes for Writing,
Motivation, Skills, and Activities. Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park,
California, 1989.
Information
Verification
Additional Resources
SOFTWARE: B-GRAPH. Commodore Business Machines, Inc., 1984. DATA
QUEST, THE 50 STATES, MECC, 1988. GEOS, Berkeley Softworks, 1985.
PRINTSHOP, Broderbund, with states' graphics, public domain software for use with PRINTSHOP
Activity
Students will select a state and write a letter requesting necessary information for the report. This letter will be required analyzing current formal writing skills of the students.
2. Students will be taught how to use encyclopedia and other online resources for gathering necessary information.
3. Students will be given ideas regarding information collection and how to incorporate that information in the report.
4. Planning the report, gathering information from relevant resources, organizing information and drafting report.
5. Teacher's supervision will be available at all stages of report writing.
6. Individual sessions with students will involve sharing teacher's feedback on student's progress and the highlighting the areas requiring amendments.
7. Peer reviews will be encouraged by the teacher.
Additional Notes
Current Events
Grade Level:
5
Subject:
social studies, language arts
Prepared By:
Teacher's Name
Overview & Purpose
The students are observed to have lack of interest in the current affairs. Therefore, the particular activity is intended to create interest in students regarding other nations of the world, their locations and cultures.
Education Standards Addressed
This particular lesson plan adheres to the Education Standard of United States (Teaching standards of the respective states)
Objectives
To enable students to extract information from Encyclopedia and other resources regarding other nations of the world and develop a report about it
Resources Required
1) Encyclopedia
2) Computer
3) Construction paper
4) Markers
Information
Information will drawn regarding various nations and their respective cultures
Verification
More than a single resource shall be used for verification of the information
Additional Resources
1) Costumes
2) CD of a song "it's a small world"
Activity
1) Students will be given the names of the nations by the teachers and the students will select ones that interest them.
2) The students will be required to perform research not limiting to encyclopedia only regarding cultures, languages and demography of the selected countries.
3) Students will now be required to submit a report about their findings and will ask to present a doll reflecting the dresses worn by that nation.
4) On the day of class presentation, students will be expected to wear costumes resembling to the dress code of their selected nations.
Summary
Students will be required to participate in the Annual Day function wearing the same costumes and marching on the song selected by the teacher
Additional Notes
Grading will be performed by considering the quality…
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