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UMF Secondary Education Lesson Plan/Learning Event Template
UMF Secondary Education Lesson Plan/Learning Event Template
Learning Objectives & Content Standard Alignment - Selects, creates, and sequences learning
experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals based
on content standards and desired understandings.
Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands expertise in
reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and individual learner
needs.
Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance tasks
by using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make learning
accessible to all learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
(Include any documents associated with the plan: graphic organizers, sets of questions, sample
problems, activity directions, content knowledge reference notes, etc.)
Teaching and Learning Sequence Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
-Welcome students and take attendance. (2 mins) -Start class off on a positive note
-Check work from previous class was completed (5 minutes) -Formative assessment when quickly looking at the work to
place grades in the computer for previous assignments.
-Guided notes (55 mins))
- Lecture/ note taking with breaks that doesn’t require the
students to write a lot down. Allows opportunities to talk
about what is being presented in the slide show of
information.
- One thing you learned (10 mins) -Closing activity. Allows the students a mini thinking break
while they wait for their turn to tell what they learned during
the day’s lesson.
-Chernobyl Succession video (7 mins)
- Way to end the class that is informative and relevant to
succession, shows a larger world connection to a situation
that some students have heard of, but may not have
thought of the connection to succession that the area is at
30 plus years later.
-Slides are presented in written format, with the words then read -Verbally provide the students what they need
by me. to write in their own notes to complete the
information for their notes. The written words
are on the screen. I will repeat the missing
parts of the notes multiple times, pausing in
between spoken times. Repeat until I can see
that all students have stopped writing. Allows
two different ways for students to interact with
the information.
-Closed captioning will be turned on in the Chernobyl video -Allows the students the opportunity for written to go along
with the verbal of the video incase that makes following
along easier.
-Slide show on the drop down big screen, and the Chernobyl video -Changing media presentation modes allows the students a
shown on the Promethean board. brief break from the screen to give their eyes a rest. The
pixelation, brightness, and sound are different between the
two types of presentation offering a chance to see if either
is preferable to the students. The drop down screen is
larger for the written words. The extra large size of the
screen is not needed for viewing a video, and the
Promethean board displays videos like watching a
television.