KING’S COLLEGE LESSON PLAN

Form 1 & 2 Belizean Studies

Week 1: August 28th – September 1st, 2017
Shakira Castellanos
CONTEXT/PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Students know that there is an assumption that all human life originate in Africa.

TOPIC OBJECTIVES KEY CONCEPTS LEARNING/TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Through class
Topic: Introduction discussion, students LESSON 1
will be able to:
Subtopics: History is the study about human past. Its Intro: Students will be asked what comes to mind when they hear the word
1. Describe the people interacting within and with each “History”. Students will then come up with a definition of history.
What is History? definition of other in a given time and space.
History Development:
Human Fossils 2. Explain the Definition of History through identifying the
three steps in three parts: 1. Actual event in its time and 1. Students will engage in a whole class discussion on the
Early African Tools the historical place, 2. the Historian and his interpretation, importance of studying history.
process 3. the philosophy used to understand the 2. Teacher will explain the three different parts of history.
3. Communicate event. 3. Students will be provided with a scenario and will work in
the pairs to come up with a theory about the scenario. (Skeletal
differences History helps us understand ourselves and our remain found. Who does it belong to? How did it get there?)
between present 4. Teacher will show students the importance of studying all
biases, perspectives about a particular event in history.
objectivity and
subjectivity Conclusion: At the end of the session, all students should understand the
importance of studying history as it may answer many questions we have
about ourselves. A student will be chosen randomly to give a brief synopsis
of what was covered in class.

LESSON 2

Intro: Students will be asked to brainstorm for a list of tools they might
need if they lived ten thousand years ago.
Development:

1. Students will engage in group discussion and will be given one

tool used in the days of the Africans. They will guess how this
tool was used.
2. Teacher will say if the group gave the correct answer or not
and will add necessary moifications.
 3. Students will watch a short video on the ancient technology of
the Africans

Conclusion: At the end of the session, teacher will give an assignment

where students will make a model of any technology/tool used by the
Africans and will bring it to class to display.

Lesson 3
Students will watch a film called “The Real Eve” that talks about the first
humans and where we came from.

Self Evaluation:

STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT REFERENCES ATTITUDE

Assignment:
 Interview two senior persons based on what they think  African and Maya history E-reader. - Students will appreciate history as it tells us
is history. Have them sign under their definition of (Musa and Tzib) where we come from and who we are.
history