Lesson Plan : Collaborative Project
Teacher Name: | Charlene Oretta |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Social Studies |
Topic: | Regional Native American Tribes in Southern California |
Content: | Third Grade California Standards: English Language Arts 1.0: Students write clear and coherent sentences that develop a central idea. Their Writing shows they consider the audience and perpose. English Language Arts 1.3: Understand the structure and organization of various reference materials History and Social Science 3.2: Students describe the American Indian Nations in their local region long ago and in therecent past. |
Goals: | Students will gain a deeper understanding of Native american tribes described in our social studies books. We will form 4 collaborative groups of 5 students. |
Objectives: | Each group will become their own "Tribe" and do internet and library book research on themselves.Each group member will contribute to the collaborative effort by writing a piece of the following elements of their report: shelter, clothing, food, geography, customs (religious and social). Each group will orally present their final written projects to the class, and then construct a diorama to represent their research in three dimensional form. |
Materials: | Reports: Internet and library book research material, computers for word processing and internet research, pencils notebook paper, construction paper for cover of report. Materials for Diorama: Construction and drawing paper,crayons, markers, glue, tape, scissors, natural materials(twigs, leaves, dirt, rocks), shoe boxes for each group, twine, moedling clay or plaster of paris. |
Introduction: | Teacher will facillitate the process by providing guidance for the project guidelines and the grading rubric. Teacher will introduce the four tribes of study during a mini-lesson. Students will use their social studies books to read along with her. |
Development: | Teacher will explain the collaborative process and how each one of the group members will take a piece of the project do research on it and then write a summary of their research for the final report. |
Practice: | Teacher will do a guided writing exercise on summarizing non-fiction, and refresh the class on the writing process: 1. Pre-Write 2. Drafting 3. Revising (meet with Teacher) 4. Proofing (meet with Teacher) 5. Publish Teacher will review final writing pieces of each group and then assign a date and time for them to present their project orally. |
Accommodations: | Students who are ELL or differently abled can be paired with another student who is able to work independently. |
Checking For Understanding: | Students will be graded on based on a rubric and their ability to work as a group. |
Closure: | Students will show their dioramas as a class museum to their classmates and parents. |
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