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Tanner Oman Kevin Reins Seed 394 Internship 1st Lesson Plan that I taught in Avon over The War of 1812

Lesson Length: 90 min/ 1 day Grade: 11 Lesson Title: War of 1812 and its significance

__ Goal __ : To see why the United States’ forgotten war is one of its most important. __ Objectives __ : 1. For the students to evaluate the gains and failures of the War of 1812. 2. For the students to create an understanding towards the vital need the U.S. had in not loosing this war. 3. To get the students to build an analysis of the symbols that were created in this war that are still in use today.

__ Learning Materials __ : 1. Textbook. 2. Laptops from Tech room. 3. Assessment Worksheet __ Assessment __ : Worksheet and group work abilities. __ Standards __ : None for the War of 1812 __ Instructional Strategies __ : After kids are accounted for, instruct them to check out the laptops from the tech room quickly. 2. Once returned, break the groups into 3-4 people each. We ended up with 6 groups. 3. Handout the worksheet, tell the kids not to start yet as they might be doing unneeded work. 4. Each group will then be assigned 2-3 questions from the worksheet that they will write a short paragraph about, as in-depth as possible. The questions were tough so it took them a while to complete. 5. Once every group finished up, and I had checked through their work to make sure it covered enough material, the groups were instructed to stand up, one at a time, and teach their fellow classmates what they had found. The classmates were instructed to take notes from the student’s instruction and complete the rest of the worksheet from which the questions were assigned. This continues till all the groups had gone and the questions were completed.

__ Reflection __ : The students had a very difficult time with the questions, so the load will probably have to be lightened up a bit. Also the students didn’t teach to the quality I would have enjoyed, so i probably should implement a lesson on how I want my students to teach early in the year, if I want to use this strategy again when I get my own class. That would create a much greater opportunity for this approach to be very affective.