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Lesson Plan #4Grade: 4Social Studies Strand: HistorySubmitted By: Sandra Montgomery

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social ScienceNevada State College Spring 2014Instructor: Karen Powell

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan: This lesson is on pioneers moving west and what they needed to take to survive the trek. I took the strategy from Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies: Strategy 1 (pg. 3 8)C. Basic Information: Grade Level: 4th grade Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 minutes Groupings: small groupsD. Materials: Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: United States History Volume 2 Chapter 11: Core Lesson 4 (Pg. 400-405) Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies; Strategy 1 (pg. 3 8) Copy of Figure 1.1 on page 8 in Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies per students. Various objects pioneers would find on the trek west; 1 per groupE. Objectives: NV State Social Studies Standards H2.4.2 Describe the experiences of pioneers moving west.

Student-Friendly Standards H2.4.2 Students will experience some objects the pioneers found on the trek to the West.F. Vocabulary Wagon train: line of covered wagons that moved together. Forty-niner: a miner who went to California in 1849. Gold rush: when many people hurry to the same area to look for gold. Boomtown: a town whose population grows very quickly.G. Procedure: Italics are instructions for the teachers only1. We read the story from Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: United States History volume Chapter 11: Core Lesson 4 (Pg. 400-405).2. Go over the definitions3. TW pair up the students.4. TW take the students on a field trip (on the school grounds). Teacher would have a marked area where she hid different artifacts out on the school grounds.5. TW tell students that each pair will work on their own artifact.6. SW find something that might be found on the track. Ex. Sagebrush, arrowheads, bones, etc. Then SW pull out their data sheet and work together on it.7. TW walk around groups of students and observe and guide students if needed.8. TW take students back into the classroom when they are done.9. If there is time left, TW discuss what they discovered and how it might have been like for pioneer children as they walked along with their parents.H. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding?TW use the data sheets that the students filled out.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson. If the students were able to fill the data sheet out with clarity. The level of discussion between the teacher and the students had in class.I. Closure: Students will share one thing that they learned about this activity and how they would have liked to be a pioneer.J. Reflection: 1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach? Taking the students outside on a small field trip.2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach? Seeing if the students understand what can be classified as an artifact and then how to describe what they found.3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?I would have the students learn about what needs to be put into wagons, what the pioneers had to leave, what the students would leave and what they would take. Then have the students go to stations and if they didnt pack certain items, then they would have to go sit down and redo their list of things to take with them.

4. What can you do for students who dont grasp the concepts?I would have the students paired up with different level students, that way the students who understand can help guide their partner. If the group is having problems I would ask them what they are struggling with. Then I would guide them on the questions they are having problems with.

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?Personally, I dont know what I would change on it.

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?Trying to get the book online and integrating it with Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies. I changed the topic and lesson idea around several times to get to work together.

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