Unit: Chapter 7 CCSS or State Standards: Lesson Title: Lesson 1 (Final Grade/Period: 4 Grade
Unit: Chapter 7 CCSS or State Standards: Lesson Title: Lesson 1 (Final Grade/Period: 4 Grade
Unit: Chapter 7 CCSS or State Standards: Lesson Title: Lesson 1 (Final Grade/Period: 4 Grade
Questions)
CCSS or State Standards:
CCSS 44C1.0.2
Resources and Materials:
Meet Michigan textbook
Journals
Objective: I can:
What students will know and be able to do I can state what tax means.
stated in student friendly language (use
Bloom’s and DOK levels for higher level I can state what rights are.
thinking objectives)
I can state what elections are.
I can state what consequences are.
I can state what the government does.
Essential Question(s): Who gets to vote?
Over-arching questions of the lesson that will
indicate student understanding of What are the four reasons we have government in Michigan?
concepts/skills What is it you want the
students to learn/know? Why? How do we pay for government?
Who gets the final say in government?
Inclusion Activity: The class will start by discussing what they learned when reading lesson
Describe an activity that will ensure that all one. The teacher will have them each write down 4 things they learned
students and their voices are included at the
beginning of the lesson. from the Lesson. Then they will share their lists with their table group.
After they have had time to share the group will make a master list of all
the things they learned. The teacher will call on different members to give
one thing they learned. They will go around the room until nobody has
anything left that has not been said. (15 minutes)
1. The class will be working on the questions on page 329. They will
Sequence of Activities: need to answer questions 1-7 in their journals.
Provide an overview of the flow of the lesson. 2. When they are done the teacher will check them. They may be
Should also include estimates of
pacing/timing. sent back to correct and reread if a question is wrong. ( Step 1
and 2 will take 20 minutes)
3. Teacher will tell students that they will start the next lesson in
Chapter 7 next week. If they have time they may read or play
Freckle on the computer. It is now time to clean up the classroom
to go back to their homeroom and go home for the day. (5
minutes)
Instructional Strategies:
Research-based strategies to help students
think critically about the concept/skill.
Assessment: Formative: The discussion in the very beginning will show if the
List both formative and summative students learned what the teacher was trying to teach them.
assessments that you will use to assess student
understanding. Formative assessments are
given during instruction (check for
understanding), summative are after
completion of instruction (how will you grade – Summative: The students answering the questions in the yellow box
quiz, test, project, paper, presentation, under “Think About It. Talk About It!” will be graded.
demonstration, etc.).
Differentiation: The students may need to have the questions read to them. The teacher
Describe who will need additional or different can also have the page numbers where the student will find the answer. A
support during this lesson, and how you will
support them. Differentiated instruction could student can also work in the hallway if they need it to be quieter to work.
include testing accommodations, preferential They may also sit at the teacher’s desk.
seating, segmented assignments, a copy of the
teacher’s notes, assignment notebook, peer
tutors, etc.
Summary, Integration and The class discussing what they have learned is a great way to bring
Reflection: everyone together. Some may have learned something different than the
List the way that you will bring students others. They can see if maybe there was a part of the lesson that they
together to integrate and reflect on their
learning from this lesson didn’t understand.