Teacher: Mr.

Burk Bosse
Level: 2nd Grade

Grade

School: Ivy Tech Elementary School

History

Subject:

Differentiated

Lesson Plan

Learning Goals or Standards to be addressed:

SS.03.CG.01 Identify essential ideas and values expressed in national
symbols, heroes, and patriotic songs of the United States.
SS.03.CG.02 Identify rights that people have in their communities.

Students will know: They will gain knowledge on how important having
rules and being responsible is to work together as a community unit.

Students will understand: The need for rules in the classroom and their
community

Students will be able to: Make rules for their own small groups with the
help of the teacher.
Students will understand why they need to make rules for their small groups
and why the rules are needed.
They will learn skills, which will help them understand, observe, and keep the
classroom rules and why the community has rules.
The best type of differentiation that would meet the students needs is
interest.
Differentiation strategy (process, content, product) or Enviroment
Grouping Strategy
Flexible Grouping Utilized

1. Students will be grouped by working numbers they selected for the

learning center,

Teacher: Mr. Burk Bosse

Level: 2nd Grade

Grade

School: Ivy Tech Elementary School

History

Subject:

Which will include hands on, visual, and auditory learning by the use of
coloring
Page, Power Point presentation, video, and quizzes.
2. Students will find their names on a zip-loc bag that also includes their
working number
Bags will contain, matching pictures to events, labeling parts of the
preamble. A coloring page, and a quiz on-line.

How will the needs of the students with disabilities be addressed?

Students, who are exceptional children will be placed in groups, and
according to their needs with Teacher provided scaffolding.
Example:
Students with Emotional and Behavioral disorders will be placed farthest
away from other groups and distractions. Students with learning disabilities
will be in a group with teachers support

Describe the specific learning activities?

Creating MUTIPLE PATHWAYS to Reach One Goal
Steps
1. We will watch the video American History for Children the United
States Constitution.
2. We will read 3 different books throughout the week about the
Constitution, the books we will read are: Constitution Day by Crabtree
Publishing Company
D is for Democracy a Citizens Alphabet by: Elissa Grodin
We the Kids by: David Catrow.
3. We will go to the computers and work with Kidspration to work on our
posters of different U. S. symbols.

Teacher: Mr. Burk Bosse

Level: 2nd Grade

Grade

School: Ivy Tech Elementary School

History

Subject:

4. Each student will receive a booklet that has in it a summary of what

the Constitution is,
The Preamble, the branches of the government, The Bill of Rights, and
The Amendments. We will go over this booklet together as a class &
discuss each thing in terms that are appropriate for 2nd graders.
5. Students will alphabetize 10 Constitution words during Language Arts
& do a Constitution Day word search.
6. We will work in flexible groups, paired special needs with the teachers
assistant and gifted and talented working alone then we will switch the
groups where gifted and talented will work with special needs.
7. Each group will make a poster for Constitution Day.
8. We will then have a verbal quiz for assessment.

Describe how this lesson has changed from when you did it before?
Before I would have stayed more with work from the text and reading, with
homework being by answering the questions in the back of each chapter,
with no poster work or videos. I would have given the students only a few
minutes to complete their in class assignments.

Assessment of your plan

Where might you run into trouble carrying out the differentiation in
this lesson?
Some students are less willing to become involved in peer teaching-skill
that might need to practiced (some just give the answers to group
members).
Some students might be reluctant to use academic language, especially in
History.
Some students might not want to make posters.
How will you give directions for different versions of the task? Will
you color-code task cards or assignment sheets? Audio-record
directions.

Teacher: Mr. Burk Bosse

Level: 2nd Grade

Grade

School: Ivy Tech Elementary School

History

Subject:

I will sign the lesson to the hard of hearing student/s, will have my students
with disabilities work with myself and/or the teacher assistant. I will give a
power point presentation to the class so those students who are visual or
auditory will understand the lesson better and for the kinesthetic I will
include hands-on instructions and will hand out in class assignment sheets.

Will you tell the students the lesson is differentiated? If so, how If
not, why not?
1. I will tell the students the lessons are differentiated, so we can all be
one team in the learning process and so the gifted and talented might
help the diverse students with the help they need with the lesson, with
teacher supervision. I also want to be able to resolve any conflicts,
which might develop by not telling the students.
2. When the students, and teachers are on the same page, there will be
more cooperation from the students, and there shouldnt be any
complaints on why other students are doing some things differently,
the students will already know and be able to act accordingly.
3. Discussing the differentiated lesson at the beginning of the school
year, will answer the students questions and make for more of a
comfortable learning atmosphere.

What will you do if some students or groups finish early?

Each group will have a different activity to work on, some will read, some will
be able to color, and others will be able to have computer time or play an
educational game with teacher supervision.

If necessary, how will you get students into groups efficiently? How
will you get them back to a whole-class configuration?
1. Each student will have working numbers they selected prior and have
been taught where these numbers will assemble, example: all students
with the number one will assemble at table one and so forth.

Teacher: Mr. Burk Bosse

Level: 2nd Grade

Grade

School: Ivy Tech Elementary School

History

Subject:

2. To return the students to a whole-class configuration, the students will

be told they need to return the numbers to a student-helper and take
their assigned seating.
3. At times I would offer a prize for the first group to assemble and the
first group to return to their assigned seating, which the teacher will
use as a means of practice.

How will you know if todays lesson worked? What will you watch
for? How will you use what happens in this lesson to improve the
next days instruction?
Assessment, using quizzes, verbal and written, walking around the room
observing the students as they talk about and do the assignments.
1. Having the students reaching group goals assessed by the students
correctly completing individual exit tickets, every group receiving
different tickets for each group.
2. Students being actively engaged and motivated to learn
Activities being altered according to the outcomes of previous lessons.
Quality D. I. is guided by ongoing assessment which guides the next step.