Mr. Younker’s Lesson Plan

Subject: GeographyGrade 8

Unit: States of the United StatesA Geographical Study of the U.S

Objective

•Standard 5.B•Locate states of the United States

Materials and Resources

• 1 iPad for teacher use• 12 student laptops• Class SMART Board • Microsoft Office• ELMO document camera• Whiteboard• 1 Laser Printer• Wireless router

Anticipatory Set

• To engage the students and introduce them to the material, we will be watching a video on our SMART Board. This video will take the students on a tour throughout the U.S. With this video students will begin to understand the location of states in relationship to each other.

• https://youtu.be/_E2CNZIlVIg • Berman, Francoeur, Markus, Taylor, 2012

Input (Formal Assessment)

• Students will be using their laptops to play this U.S geography game. After each student has finished their game, I will walk around with my iPad to record each score using Excel and take note of areas where students struggle the most and what they already know.

• http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/us_state_games/map-the-50-states.html

Model• This is the web address that I am using for the teaching aspect of our lesson.

http://awesomeamerica.com

• I plan on briefly browsing through the site on the SMART Board and covering each specific state.

• I also plan on passing out a "My United States Map" that is basically a black piece of paper initially and when we learn a state they will physically draw that outline of the state on their map. It gives them the idea of the physical shape of each state along with where it is situated on the map. Their knowledge will build as each state is taught and when our lesson is done they will have drawn the entire United States map. The blank paper is made in word with the title and a place for the students name.

Check for Understanding• Students will play bingo to determine if they are making sense of the

material. I will call out different state names from my Excel sheet and students will need to place their pieces on that corresponding state. When a student completes a row on their card I will check to make sure those states were called and reward them with a piece of candy for their success.

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Washington New Mexico Arkansas Ohio VermontOregon Noth Dakota Louisiana Georgia Massachusetts

California South Dakota Wisconsin Florida Rhode IslandNevada Nebraska Illinois North Carolina ConnecticutIdaho Kansas Michigan South Carolina New Jersey

Montana Oklahoma Indiana Virginia DelawareWyoming Texas Kentucky West Virginia Maryland

Utah Minnesota Tennessee Pennsylvania MaineArizona Iowa Mississippi New York Alaska

Colorado Missouri Alabama New Hampshire Hawaii

Guided Practice (Informal Assessment)• Students will be divided into 4 groups (A, B, C, and D). I will use the

ELMO document camera to project a blank map of the U.S (printed from Microsoft Word) on our whiteboard and each group will be asked to label one state at a time from a given list (created in Excel). At the end of each cycle, I will award a point if the group gets the state correct and deduct a point if they get the state wrong. This will be an informal assessment method and notes will be recorded in the gradebook using the iPad.Washington New Mexico Arkansas Ohio

Oregon Noth Dakota Louisiana GeorgiaCalifornia South Dakota Wisconsin FloridaNevada Nebraska Illinois North CarolinaIdaho Kansas Michigan South Carolina

Montana Oklahoma Indiana VirginiaWyoming Texas Kentucky West Virginia

Utah Minnesota Tennessee PennsylvaniaArizona Iowa Mississippi New York

Colorado Missouri Alabama New HampshireVermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut

New Jersey Delaware Maryland Maine

Closure (Formal Assessment)

• For closure, after each tour of 2 states the students will be given an exit slip created in Microsoft Word. They will need to turn it in by the end of class for grading.

Exit Slip

Oklahoma:

1. Where is Oklahoma located (Midwest, south, north, east)?

2. What states surround Oklahoma?

Missouri:

1. Where is Missouri located?

2. What states surround Missouri?

*Shade and label Missouri and Oklahoma in separate colors. It would also be helpful to make a key at the bottom of the paper.

Independent Practice

• Students will use their laptops to practice and review for their quiz at the end of the unit. They will use this website and need to work until they get 60% or better (Informal Assessment).

• http://online.seterra.net/en/ex/8• A second independent practice will be a

quiz over the 50 states. This was created in PDF format and will be printed off for student use. (Formal Assessment)

Citation

• Berman, C., Francoeur, R., Markus, D., Taylor, B. (2012 June 29). Tour the States – Official Music Video. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/_E2CNZIlVIg

• http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/us_state_games/map-the-50-states.html

• http://awesomeamerica.com• http://online.seterra.net/en/ex/8• deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com