edTPA/OTES Lesson Plan Template

LESSON TITLE: Greek and Roman Culture SUBJECT AREA: World Studies

GRADE LEVEL: 7 TIME ALLOCATION: 50 minutes.

FOCUS FOR LEARNING: OBJECTIVES (MEASURABLE GOALS/TARGETS with active verbs):

OHIO STANDARDS: Grade 7 World Studies: 2. The civilizations that developed in Greece and Rome had an
enduring impact on later civilizations. This legacy includes governance and law, engineering and technology, art
and architecture, as well as literature and history. The Roman Empire also played an instrumental role in the
spread of Christianity.

STUDENT PROFILE (Analyze students’ development, readiness for learning, preferred learning styles, or backgrounds and
prior experiences. Use more than one procedure to gain this info. )

Students would have learned about governments, laws, and cultures in past years of school.

CONNECTION BETWEEN PRIOR AND FUTURE KNOWLEDGE (Discuss students’ readiness for learning, preferred
learning styles, or backgrounds and prior experiences. Describe the procedure(s) used to gain this info ):
Students will have learned about culture in the past as well as governments and laws. This may be a first
introduction to Greek and Roman civilizations, but it will lead into a further discussion of these cultures.

INDUCTION (introduction to lesson) TIME ALLOCATIONS: 5 minutes

Students will enter the classroom and pictures of roman and Greek ACTIVITY PURPOSE: activate as
architecture will be posted on the board. Students will be asked to do assess prior knowledge
an entrance ticket where they say what the pictures remind them of or Review of prior knowledge/skill?
identify them if they know what the picture is of. New knowledge/skill?

STUDENT GROUPING: individual

(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS: N/A

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES: pictures
of architecture from Greece and Rome

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS: the entrance

slip
None?
Formative?
Summative?
ACTIVITY #1 (Include teacher questions, student expectations, TIME ALLOCATIONS: 20 minutes
modifications for students with special needs)
ACTIVITY PURPOSE: new knowledge
This will be a lecture about Greek and Roman architecture, culture, and Review of prior knowledge/skill?
art. This will cover the pictures that we looked at when class started as New knowledge/skill?
well as other examples of architecture and art. We will talk about both
Greek and Roman culture and compare them to one another. STUDENT GROUPING: whole class
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

lecture to whole class
(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES: power
point presentation to go along with the
lecture

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

power point will be made available to
students that struggle with keeping up
during lecture.

ASSESSMENT PLANS: none

None?
Formative?
Summative?

ACTIVITY #2 (If needed. Include teacher questions, student TIME ALLOCATIONS: 15-20
expectations, modifications for students with special needs)
Class discussion about Roman and Greek culture and how they ACTIVITY PURPOSE: gauge student
compare to culture in today’s world. This will help the students see how knowledge
culture of the past influenced todays world while getting them directly Review of prior knowledge/skill?
involved in the lesson. New knowledge/skill?

STUDENT GROUPING: whole

(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS: none

None?
Formative?
Summative?

CLOSURE: TIME ALLOCATIONS: 5-10 minutes

Students will take the information that they have learned from the ACTIVITY PURPOSE: assess student
lecture and the class discussion and answer a few questions about learning through the activity and see
what they have learned. They will be asked to compare the architecture where they need help
from the beginning of class to buildings in the united states now to Review of prior knowledge/skill?
show the lasting effect of Greek and roman architecture. New knowledge/skill?
 STUDENT GROUPING: individual
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS: N/A

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES: the same

pictures from the beginning of the
class

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS: the exit ticket.

None?
Formative?
Summative?

DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT (Discuss post-teaching plans based on assessment data collected to inform future teaching ):