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Edu2003 Lesson Plan Using The Edtpa Framework Your Name: Allison Gerlach

The lesson plan has students compare and contrast the United States to another country by having them research facts about each nation using online maps and dictionaries, then organizing the information into a Venn diagram and presenting their findings to the class. It also includes an assessment where students write about the country most similar and different from the US. The plan aims to teach students about similarities and differences between nations.

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Edu2003 Lesson Plan Using The Edtpa Framework Your Name: Allison Gerlach

The lesson plan has students compare and contrast the United States to another country by having them research facts about each nation using online maps and dictionaries, then organizing the information into a Venn diagram and presenting their findings to the class. It also includes an assessment where students write about the country most similar and different from the US. The plan aims to teach students about similarities and differences between nations.

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EDU2003 Lesson Plan Using the edTPA Framework

Your Name: Allison Gerlach


Grade level this plan is for: 
 3rd Materials you’ll use: Laptops, National Geographic Kids Interactive Map:
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/world/ , Dictionary: www.dictionary.com ,Venn Diagram Project
Sheet, poster board, markers

Central Learning Focus and Planned Learning Outcomes


Central Focus What are the similarities and differences between the United States and other nations?
(Content)
Social Studies
ELA Anchor Standard 6.1 U.S. History: America in the World
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
Standards for The world is comprised of nations that are similar to and different from the United States.
Mathematical Practice Describe how the world is divided into many nations that have their own governments, languages,
customs, and laws.

Learning Standard(s) n/a


for the Central Focus

Students will be able to:


 Construct a Venn Diagram based on the similarities and differences between the US and their other nation
Objectives based on the
 Report the customs, governmental structure, language, economy, geography, or fun facts about the US and
Learning Standards another nation
listed above  Compare and contrast the facts about the US and another nation to organize them into similarities or
differences

Prior Academic How to use a Venn Diagram, general understanding of where each continent is located on a map
Knowledge

Anticipated Issues Difficulty locating their country on the interactive map


Academic Language Demands
Compare: How are things similar?
Language Used Contrast: How are things different?
(Vocabulary, Syntax, Customs: traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular
Discourse) society, place or time
Culture: the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group

Students will look up the definitions to the content related words as they research. They will not be explained prior
Meeting the Language so that the students can explore the content on their own. They will use the words that they have looked up in their
Demands presentation. The meaning of compare and contrast will be explained with the directions of the activity because
they are so closely related.
Assessment
Assessment Type Evaluation Criteria and Feedback for Students

Assessment Task Planned Modifications to
(Informal or (Teacher Tasks - What evidence of student learning related to the
Description Assessment Tasks
Formal) (Student Tasks) learning objectives and central focus does the assessment task
provide? What feedback will you provide the students?)
Checking student’s list of Give students plenty of time to Check student’s list for appropriate facts about their nation. If they are
information about their nation. explore their nation, so they get a collecting unimportant data, redirect them to the focus questions that
Informal strong grasp on the characteristics will refocus their research.
of their nation.
(During Instruction)

Allow students to look up any


words that they do not understand.
Informal Checking the rough draft of their Assist students who are having a By rephrasing the facts that the students have collected in similar terms
Venn diagram tough time differentiating between of the facts that we have collected about America, they should have an
(During Instruction)
similarities and differences. easier time at sorting them.
Write a paragraph about what Students who have a hard time Students need to clearly justify their answers logically. There is no clear
Formal nation they believe is the most expressing themselves through right or wrong answer to this question. As long as their answers are
similar to America and what writing, they can explain their backed up by correct supporting details, their understanding of the
(After Instruction)
nation they think is the most answer to me orally. content is shown.
different and WHY.
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks
Launch / Motivation /  Begin by looking at the interactive map and looking at the United States. Each student will have this pulled
Anticipatory Set up on their own laptop and they can share what they find interesting in the information section. I will write
the things that they find on the board (this will provide the US half of the Venn Diagram for the project).
(Engage)
 Students will work in pairs to explore different countries that are assigned to them. They will be provided
Instructional Core
with the country’s name and its continent but they will need to locate it on the interactive map themselves.
Sequence
 Students will record the facts that they find about their nation. They will be given a sheet with questions to
(Explore, Explain, Elaborate) prompt their data collection. Students will be told to look up words that they do not know.
Structured Practice &  Once students have their research done they will work to relate the information that they have about the US
Application and their country by organizing it in a Venn Diagram.
 With a completed rough draft of their Venn Diagram, the students will work to create a final draft on a
(Formal Assessment or
poster board.
Evaluate)
 After their poster is complete, they will share their findings with the class through a partner oral
presentation.
 When the presentations are finished, students will be given an opportunity to write what nation they think
is the most similar to America and what nation is most different and explain why.
Closure  And finally, students will create “post cards” home about any of the countries that were presented to the
class. They will explain new things that they tried in that place (differences) and describes things at that
place that reminded them of home (similarities).

How does your lesson Students practiced speaking skills when they were presenting their posters. Students were actively listening to their
plan include language peers as they presented. Students will practice their writing skills when they are finishing the formal assessment
arts, math, or social portion of the lesson.
studies content?

Extension Activity If students finish this project early, they can explore different countries on the interactive map while they wait for
their peers to complete their posters.
Differentiation/Planned For students that have trouble with their language arts skills, mainly writing skills, they have the opportunity to be
Additional Support prompted by rephrased questions, given additional resources (like the ability to look up words they don’t know),
and having altered assignments. Students who really struggle explaining their thoughts through writing, they have
(Special Needs, ELL, the opportunity to orally tell me what their thought process is and prove their comprehension about the content.
Gifted, Apathetic)
Teaching Analysis
Which lesson aspects n/a
worked?

Which did not work as


well as you planned?

What would you need to n/a


say/do tomorrow, based
on how well this lesson
worked today?

Specific Changes n/a

Resources
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/world/
www.dictionary.com
Worksheet in separate file

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