Daily Lesson Plan Template

Blythewood High School Carly Rogers

School Your Name:
3/24/17 United States Government
Date: Course:
44 minutes 12th grade
Length of Class: Grade Level(s):
Number of 6th: 29 # of Adults 2: Mr. Johnson and Ms. Rogers
Students: 7th: 22 in
Classroom:
8th: 6

Unit Topic/Title: The United Nation: Necessary or Not?

Rationale/ This is relevant because the UN does work all over the world and works with the
Purpose for United States government.
Lesson:

Learning Students will be able to summarize and analyze what the UN does.
Outcomes: Students will be able to identify and describe the six bodies within the UN, their
work on protecting human rights, and the four major accomplishments discussed
in the reading.
Students will be able to assess the qualities necessary to work in the UN.
Content Standards
Addressed USG-1.2: Analyze components of government and the governing process,
including politics, power, authority, sovereignty, legitimacy, public institutions,
efficacy, and civic life.

USG-1.4: Analyze the institutional and organizational structure of government

that allows it to carry out its purpose and function effectively, including the
branches of government and legitimate bureaucratic institutions.
Items to Display as Agenda: (Activities)
1. UN Activity

Materials UN article, Chrome books, Google Classroom, PowerPoint, and Smartboard.

Required:
In the usual arrangement of desks in pairs, in rows, facing the Smartboard.
Classroom
Geography:

Approximately what percentage of the time are students do each of the following? (Should = 100%)
 % Independent reading 100% Partner work % {Add your own}

% Independent writing % Group work % {Add your own}

Direct Instruction by
% teacher % {Add your own } % {Add your own}
Engaging in whole
% group discussion % {Add your own} % {Add your own}

Lesson Sequence
Estimated Detailed Description of Teaching and Learning
Time Needed (Include language to identify instructional goals activate prior
knowledge, engage, model, investigate, apply, review, closure, etc.)

44 minutes UN Activity:
You may pick a partner to do this assignment with, but you can only have 1 partner.
You will read a document I posted on Google Classroom and answer the questions
together.
Submit this assignment in a Google Doc on Google Classroom.
Your answers MUST be in your own words. No copying and pasting!
http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/extra/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2014/03/un_sh_background.pdf

In your own words

1. What are the UN Millennium Development Goals? Are there any others you
think should be added?
2. What is the mission of the UN?
3. Identify and describe the function of the six bodies of the UN.
4. What kind of occupational skills would someone need to be a staff member or
diplomat at the UN?
5. Describe the four areas of accomplishment that are in the reading.
6. What efforts has the UN made in protecting human rights?
7. Is the UN necessary? Why or why not? This should be a paragraph.
 Homework for Tomorrow
None.

Assessments
The UN activity will be used as a formative assessment to check for understanding about the
UN.

Adaptations/Extensions
I could modify my lesson for a range of diverse learners by having them create a PSA about the
important things the UN does.

Notes / Reflections
What worked? What didnt work? How will or did you follow-up? What did you learn about
your teaching from this lesson? What did you learn about your students that will inform your
teaching in subsequent lessons? What changes will you make to the lesson when you teach it
again?

This will be completed after the lesson.

What Comments Did Others in the Room Make? (Optional)

(If your coaching teacher mentor, teaching partner, or university supervisor observed this lesson,
what comments did these adults make about the lesson and your instruction that you want to
consider?)

This will be completed after the lesson.