Lesson Plan Format
(Peer Teaching 3)
1.
Title and Identifying Information
At the top of your lesson plan, provide
your names and email addresses.
2.
Grade Level and Topic
Although you will initially be teaching
this lesson to peers, pitch the lesson to the middle school level
(grades 6-8),
and choose a topic related to the environment. You will be teaching 3-4
"students."
3.
National Science Education Standard(s) and
Pennsylvania standard(s).
Identify 1-2 relevant national science
education content standards and 1-3 State standards that you
will
address in your lesson. At least one of your identified standards
should
concern some aspect of scientific method or inquiry.
4.
Instructional Objectives
A brief list of 2-3 things that students should
be able to do as a result of this lesson. Bear in mind that this
will be a 20-minute
lesson.
What's your "big
idea?" Describe what you need to know, as the teacher, about the
content you
are teaching. Write a paragraph explaining the key ideas of the lesson.
Another
science teacher should be able to read this explanation of the ideas
and have a
good understanding of the science of your lesson.
6. Administrative
Considerations
Provide details
about classroom management and student safety specific to your lesson. Include information about specific
instruction
strategies aimed at making the knowledge accessible to English learners
and
students with exceptional needs.
7.
Materials, Equipment, & Set-up
Be very detailed and specific in this
section.
Material-wise, what will you need to teach this lesson once? Three
times
back-to-back? (You will do the former when you Peer Teach, and the
latter with
our middle school visitors). Remember to request materials at least 3
days in
advance.
Your lesson should involve computer and/or
graphing calculator technology. The use of probes is optional but
highly
recommended. If you do not use probes, there should be an activity in
which
students gather some data and analyze it in some fashion using an
appropriate
technology.
8. Body of the
Lesson
a) Engagement: (Approx. time frame)
List the questions you
will ask to initially engage your students. What questions will you ask
to find
out what students already know about your topic? How will you connect
what the
students already know with the concepts in your lesson?
b) Exploration: (Approx. time frame)
What is your guiding
question for the lesson? How will you help students conduct an
investigation to
answer the guiding question?
Will there be more than one way to
explore
the question using the materials provided?
Be sure that your students
make a prediction before collecting data.
How will students collect
data?
How will students record data?
c) Explanation: (Approx. time frame)
How will you help the
students, make sense of the exploration and report what they learn in
their own
words?
d) Evaluation: (Approx. time frame)
How will you have the
students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the ideas
under
study? Be sure that your evaluation matches your instructional
objectives.
e) Elaboration: (Approx. time frame)
If you finish steps
a-d
early, what extensions will you add to your lesson? You should always
overplan,
and your elaboration should be more imaginative than, "Discuss..." or
"Ask questions about ..."
Please submit a draft
lesson plan to your instructor in the Angel dropbox. Label the file
"Lastname1-Lastname2 Peer3 draft.doc"
You will have a
class meeting to work on planning your lesson and your lesson plan.
Please note
that you need to request any materials that we need to purchase on that
day.
You will peer teach
your lesson to a group of 3-4 peers during a future class session. You
will
teach your lesson once and play the role of a middle school student for
two
other lessons. The rest of our class meeting time will be devoted to
debriefing
and giving each other feedback.
You will
subsequently revise
your lesson and teach it to visiting middle school students (Teaching
Clinic
I).