This week’s assignment calls for the creation of a concept formation lesson plan, which will be the third of three lesson plans that constitute your unit plan. Using the New York State Social Studies K-8 Framework (for the K-5 New York State Social Studies Standards) in http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/programs/curriculum-instruction/ss-framework-k-8a2.pdf and the required lesson plan template, and continuing with your unit, develop a lesson plan that will help students build for themselves a key idea (concept) in your unit.
Please be sure to continue to choose a New York State Standard and one or more of the corresponding student performance objectives found under the standard you chose from within the pages in the grade level you used previously. These are as follows: Kindergarten on pages 16-18 in the New York State K-8 Social Studies Framework document; Grade 1 on pages 23-26; Grade 2 on pages 32-35; Grade 3 on pages 41-44; Grade 4 on pages 52-57; and Grade 5 on pages 74-77. The New York State Social Studies Standards are indicated by numbers and letters, and the student performance objectives are indicated by arrows under these standards. Creating your own standards or performance objectives would not be acceptable.
Please be reminded of the following:
Recall the textbook definition of a Unit Plan: A “long-range instructional plan during which the class studies some broad topic on an ongoing basis.” This means that the three lesson plans are to be planned for the same class and grade level and relate to a broad topic.
A student performance objective may not be repeated in the three lesson plans, since the assumption is that the student has already been taught to master the objective. However, if a NYS Social Studies Standard has several student performance objectives listed, and you did not use all of them in a previous lesson, you may reuse the standard and the unused performance objectives that correspond to that standard.
The materials you are listing in your lesson plan need to be real. For example, if you are listing such items as videos, books, etc., you need to give titles and sources for each. This might require some research on your part.
In your lesson plan, be sure to indicate the page number of the NYS standards and performance objectives you are using when listing the New York State Social Studies Standards. In addition, please be sure to write out the particular NYS Social Studies Standard(s) completely rather than merely listing the number or letter of the standard.
In creating your lesson plan, be sure to use the Lesson Plan Rubric and Checklist as a resource.
Finally, make sure that there is an alignment between the Standards, Performance Objectives, Lesson Activities, and Assessments. In other words, does the content of the lesson (instructional strategies, lesson activities, and assessments) relate directly to the student performance objectives and enable students to do what the Performance Objectives say they will be able to do?
Lesson Plan must be done for 2nd grade. Attached are my previous plans (1 & 2) that were done this semester. Please use as reference and please chose a different topic/standard. Use the lesson plan template and rubric (also attached) to guide through the assignment.
Thank you!
