Lesson Planning Template s7

LESSON PLAN GUIDELINES Stage 1 The Desired Results

Georgia Standard(s)/ Copy/Paste appropriate Georgia Standards Elements

Specific Learning List appropriate learning objectives Objective(s) Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Assessment Instrument Describe the assessment instrument that you will use. Ex. Students will create a model of a community and will describe the role of each type of agent in the community. (Attach a copy.)

Evaluation Instrument Describe the instrument you will use to arrive at a grade for the students. Ex. Rubric with categories for inclusion of typical agents, explanation of roles of agents, creativity/attractiveness of model, etc. Stage 3 Learning Plans

Materials/Safety List any materials specific to this lesson (not ordinary classroom items such as markers, chalk, etc.) List all necessary SAFETY GUIDELINES required for this lesson. Ex. Goggles, glove, etc. if this were a science lesson.

Motivation/Attention Getter Describe what you will do to capture students’ attention and help them anticipate what they will be doing. (Something exciting, puzzling, intriguing to kids.) And Describe what you will do to help student relate this lesson to what they already know. Tie to Previous Learning This does not include “telling” them what they should know. It should involve some “hooks” or ways that you will help students make their own connections to what they already know – and they all know something!

Teacher Actions during Describe your actions that are specific for this lesson. If someone were watching this Lesson lesson, what would they see you doing? Be reasonably specific, but do not list every word you will say.

Student Actions during Describe the actions you anticipate for students during this lesson. If someone were Lesson watching this lesson, what would they see students doing?

Students’ Debriefing, Describe what you anticipate that students will do to display, discuss, their results from Discussion, Presentations, the lesson. Ex. Posting and discussing data, creating a poster summary, doing a gallery etc. about the lesson walk. This can be teacher guided, but should be student driven, not just teacher review questions.

Teacher’s Lesson Describe what you will do to provide some summarizing comments, briefly assess what Closure/Transition students have learned, create anticipation for the next day’s lesson, and/or explain homework, etc.

Adaptations - Special Needs Describe what you will do for students who have needs for modifications to your planned instruction. This includes all needed modifications – not just special education.

Connections to Other Describe any ways that this lesson is related to other disciplines. Ex. A lab activity Disciplines might incorporate the same type of math that students are learning in that subject, relate to a story they have read, incorporate use of writing skills, etc..

Related Activities/Extensions Describe what students who are advanced or finish early will do – related to furthering the science lesson.