edTPA/OTES Lesson Plan Template

LESSON TITLE: The Ohio Erie Canal SUBJECT AREA: American History

GRADE LEVEL: 8 TIME ALLOCATION: 3 Hours

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

Students will be able to explain how canals impacted the industrial revolution.

OHIO STANDARDS: 8th grade - 25. The Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed the means of production as a result
of improvements in technology, use of new power resources, the advent of interchangeable parts and the shift from craftwork
to factory work.

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 will have begun learning about the industrial Revolution in the United States. This lesson will focus on
the canal system and specifically the Ohio and Erie canal way.

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 previously learned about the canal way in Ohio History previously. They will also have learned
about the canal way system in the United States before this lesson.

INDUCTION (introduction to lesson) TIME ALLOCATIONS: 10 minutes

Students will be grouped together in order to prepare for their trip to the ACTIVITY PURPOSE: Review of Prior
Ohio and Erie canal way at the Zoar canal connection. They will be knowledge
reminded where the field trip is to and that they will be learning about Review of prior knowledge/skill?
the Ohio Canalway on their trip. Multiple classes will be grouped New knowledge/skill?
together for this activity.
STUDENT GROUPING: whole class
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

Transportation accommodations will be
made for those students that need
them

ASSESSMENT PLANS: none

None?
Formative?
Summative?
ACTIVITY #1 (Include teacher questions, student expectations, TIME ALLOCATIONS: 30 minutes to 1
modifications for students with special needs) hour

Upon arriving at the Canalway trail path, students will meet with a ACTIVITY PURPOSE: New knowledge
representative from the Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition. They will learn Review of prior knowledge/skill?
about the history of the Canalway at this location. Students will also be New knowledge/skill?
asked question about their knowledge of the Ohio Canal System and
canals in general during the Industrial Revolution. STUDENT GROUPING: whole class
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

Transportation accommodations will be
made for those students that need
them

ASSESSMENT PLANS: formative

None?
Formative?
Summative?

ACTIVITY #2 (If needed. Include teacher questions, student TIME ALLOCATIONS: 1 hour to 1.5
expectations, modifications for students with special needs) hours

Students will be able to explore the are in small groups. They will be ACTIVITY PURPOSE: New
tasked with thinking about what the Canalway would have been like Knowledge
during the Industrial Revolution. They will also use this time to take Review of prior knowledge/skill?
pictures of the area to include in their report about the canal. At the end New knowledge/skill?
of this time students will return to the school.
STUDENT GROUPING: small groups
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS: small

groups can work together
(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
Transportation accommodations will be
made for those students that need
them

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS: none

None?
Formative?
Summative?

CLOSURE TIME ALLOCATIONS: 10 minutes

Students will be asked to complete a report about their experience at ACTIVITY PURPOSE: apply knew
the Canalway for homework. For this report they will be creating a new knowledge
page on their website that they have been building about the class. Review of prior knowledge/skill?
They will write a two-paragraph summary about what they learned on New knowledge/skill?
their trip in a blog post on their blog page and within that blog post they
will place a link to the new page about the canal way. On the new page STUDENT GROUPING: individual
they will write a paragraph about what they encountered when they (whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)
explored the Canalway trail and they will include their pictures that they
took. They must include at least five pictures from the canal way. They IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:
will also write a five-paragraph story about what their experiences on (random, differentiated, other, ..)
the Canalway would have been like during the industrial revolution.
Lastly, they will write two paragraphs about the Ohio & Erie Canalway MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
Coalition, talking about what they organization does for the community
and why it is important for historical sites, like the Ohio & Erie ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:
Canalway, to be preserved. This blog post and the new page on their Those who have disabilities that create
website will be due a week after this lesson takes place. struggles with reading or writing will
write a three-paragraph story.

ASSESSMENT PLANS: Summative

None?
Formative?
Summative?

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

The assessment will be based upon students completing their report about the canal way.