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Goal-directed Instructional Design Plan Branches of Government and Roles Author - Jeffrey Fisher A problem or a need: a.
. The biggest concern for our young Americans is the ability to have a job after post-secondary education or vocational training. They feel often like the government has left them behind and is not doing enough for their cause, but do they actually know what the three basic functions/branches of government are? 2. A real-world performance: a. Each and every American should know what the role of the government plays in our lives. By simply being an American citizen, each person should know the basic structure of the federal government. By knowing this, they can apply their knowledge of what they know about the federal government to local and state governments because of the share characteristics each have.
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An instructional objective Students will: a. Diagram the significance and illustrate real-life impacts of the Executive Branch b. Diagram the significance and real-life impacts of the Legislative Branch c. Diagram the significance and real-life impacts of the Judicial Branch
A set of essential content: a. Students will fill out an interactive KWL chart with the topic being the Three Branches of Government. Students will then take a screen shot or save their file of their KWL chart and place it into the Google Doc. b. By watching the video Three Branches Rap Smart Songs, students will be required to provide a basic definition outlining the purpose for each of the branches of the government. c. From that definition, they are to use a drawing web tool to make a visual for their definition. i. Picture Web Tools: Microsoft Paint, Sumo Paint, Foto Flexer, Microsoft Word etc. d. By creating a video with a microphone, the students will answer, Why is the ____ Branch so important to my life? A video needs to be created of each branch. The end result can be placed into Voice Thread or Animoto or Microsoft Movie Maker. Students will post link into Google Doc. e. All of this will be placed into a Google Doc which will be accessible to all students for viewing and commenting. 5. An evaluation consisting of a test or observation: a. One of the assessments will be the Google Doc included above that displays the KWL chart, the pictures of their definitions, and the personal impact of each branch. How they go about finalizing their product will show the teacher how much needs to be taught in the upcoming class discussion and notes. b. Each student will also be given time to discuss what they learned about each branch of the government in an open class forum. c. A final assessment will be the unit/chapter test/quiz at the end of the unit. 6. A method to help participants learn a. The teacher will provide a sample of what is expected from each student in a .pdf format. Seen here. b. The follow up discussion will help students figure out if what they wrote in their paper in accurate. c. Students are always allowed to collaborate with one another in the teachers classroom about ideas, concepts, and how to guides. 7. Motivation: a. Meaningfulness: i. Plain and simple, the lesson provides types of activities that the students love. For example, providing them a rap song to learn from and finalizing their product in a video with a voice over are things that they love doing. Although the teacher will hear some complaining, the overall satisfaction will be wonderful. ii. The topic and the vocabulary used are also things that they have probably heard of in their day, but havent really investigated enough to know too much more about it. It is also something that they hear about all the time in current media and news.
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Pleasant consequences:
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After finalizing the product, the students will be able to show the videos that they created for the assignment. They will be able to take pride in the work that they created. Some of the students will realize that there work was better than some and will want to continue to push their level/quality of work. Other students will realize that they are still learning about video production and will want to strive to make their assignments better in the future when showing them to students.
Novelty: i. Whenever I have shown videos or student-created work in the classroom, everyone is always curious how their assignment compares to the rest and how the other students projects look. This part of the assignment, the part where the students show their videos, will add much needed humor to this lesson. I let the students have complete creativity and stress humor on assignments like this and the outcome is extraordinary. Making sure to tell the students we will be displaying these for the class and for other classes encourages them to create a solid piece of work. 8. Socialization: a. Students will be asked, and already know, to help out others around them figure out the assignment. Students will also be discussing in class what they learned. They will also be showing their finalized product and no one wants to make the worst project. 9. Audience: a. Age: i. The age of the students will be 10th/11th grade government students. b. Skill level: i. These students are students that I have had now for three years. They have also had multiple Microsoft Office classes. Therefore, their knowledge and teacher expectations of the assignment are high. They already know how to use Google Docs, to save/edit the KWL chart. The only thing that I would have to teach them to go is the video tools, in which I would provide my own knowledge and how to videos. c. Prerequisite knowledge: 1. Students will have basic background knowledge of government. Ideas such as what is government, what is the purpose and role of the government have been discussed. This lesson would take place toward the beginning of the first quarter of school. So, there overall knowledge of government is limited. However, I believe with these group of kids and the amount of government information that I have taught them previous will at least give them a head start compared to other schools. 10. Technology Needs: a. Internet b. Computer Lab (1-60 minute class period) c. Google Docs d. YouTube Video e. KWL Chart
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