Lesson Plan : ANCIENT GREECE
Teacher Name: | DEB GUTIERREZ |
Grade: | Grade 9-10 |
Subject: | Social Studies |
Topic: | ANCIENT GREECE |
Content: | GEOGRAPHY & POLITICAL CULTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE |
Goals: | 1. Students will gain an understanding of the geography of Greece. Students will acknowledge the role of geography in the formation of Greek city-states which ultimately led to a lack of political unification. 2. Students will observe how religious belief systems can unite a country. |
Objectives: | 1.Students will re-construct the topographical landmarks of Greece. 2.Students will complete a political and physical land map of Greece. 3.Students will explain how physical features can impact a countries political, social and religious development. |
Materials: | Map of Greece Colored Pencils Playdough |
Introduction: | Students will respond to a What do we know/What do we want to know/what did we learn white board activity. After heightening interest, students will be asked to participate in a variety of activities. |
Development: | 1.The teacher will poke holes into a flattened piece of playdough to simulate the topical geography of Greece. |
Practice: | 1. Students will be instructed to make mountains and city-states in playdough to better understand the topography of Greece. 2. Students will complete a political worksheet map of Greec |
Accommodations: | Self-regulating hands-on activities of map will incorporate all accomodations. A computer may be used as necessary to complete vocabulary assignment. |
Checking For Understanding: | Completed playdough "masterpice" and explanation completed maps. Recall activity at end of class. |
Closure: | Repeated explanation of "why we needed to know." and collection of completed maps. |
Evaluation: | Completed map Verbal Response Completed vocab. |
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