INQUIRY (5E) LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Teachers: Bryan Perez Subject: English Grade: 8

Common Core State Standards:

 8.SL.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one‐on‐one, in groups, and teacher‐
led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly.
Objective (Explicit):
 Students will be able to discuss with their group and then in a class discussion what they found in
their research by articulating new ideas and making connections to the ideas of others.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
 Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
 Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
 Assign value to each portion of the response
Assessment: students will have notes showing their original findings, what they learned from group members, and the connections made to others
research during class discussion
Exemplar Student Response: Group Notes Connections
My Notes
My Notes=25%
Group Notes=30%
Connections=45%

Sub-Objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex)

 How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
 What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
 How is this objective relative to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

SWBAT make a chart/table that clearly displays their notes

SWBAT conduct research that finds appropriate material
SWBAT make connections between their research and the research of others

Key vocabulary: connections, chart, table, group Materials: technology to show video to class,
discussion, class discussion, notes, articulate technology that allows students to conduct
independent research in class, paper to take notes
Engage
 How will you activate prior knowledge?
 How will you hook student attention?
 What question will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?
Teacher Will: Show video “The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Kid Students Will: Pay attention to the video and answer my question
President” when prompted.
What changes did MLK help bring and how did he do it?

Explore
 How will you model your performance expectations? (Remember you are not modeling what you want students to discover but need to
model expected behavior or required procedures.)
 How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer the question posed in the
Engage?
 What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are “exploring”?
Teacher Will: I will show some of what I have learned of MLK through a Students Will: Take notes of what they are finding as they
quick research. research, answering the questions I have asked them
Assign groups to do a quick research of different people in history to
see what changes came from it, who helped spur these changes, why
they did this, and how did they do it: Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Nelson
Mandela

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?
Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Explain
 How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
 How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
 How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by answering the question from the
Engage before moving on?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
Tell students to discuss with their group what they have learned Discuss thoroughly with their group what they discovered about
through their research, focusing on the specific questions I asked. their topic
Ask students to make note of what questions they have about their Describe the strategies they used to research the topics and what
research pros/cons this strategy had
Walk around groups making sure they are staying in task and
answering questions
Ask students how they went about researching their topic

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Elaborate
 How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a particular aspect of this
learning at a deep level?
 How will students use higher order thinking at this stage (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a What If? Question)?
 How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Lead a class discussion about topics
Ask how the strategies used by the individuals we researched might be
received today
Ask what strategies might be used to accomplish similar goals today
Participate in class discussion articulating their findings
Describe with the class the strategies they used to research their
topic and take notes
Make connections to what their peers have said and to the
present day

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Evaluate
 How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the elaborate content)?
 How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the assessment)?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Tell students to ensure they have taken thorough notes of what they
shared with others (my notes) and what they have learned from
others (group notes/ connections)
Ask students to discuss what they have learned today
Go through their notes checking that they have filled out each part
and that they are clear
Think about what they have learned today, pair with their elbow
partner to discuss what they came up with, then share with their
small group the big concepts they learned