lesson plan phase 2

1. Instructional decisions and teaching

During my lesson overall I had few issues and everything seemed to run smoothly. There were a few issues I had during my lesson. The first was the sound on my computer didn’t work. This was an issue for me because for my lesson all of the students were required to watch a Youtube video together and fill out a worksheet that had related to the video. This was not that big of an issue since I was able to use one of my peer’s computers instead. The final problem I encountered was one of my peers showed up halfway through the lesson and I rushed to help her catch up to where the others were at in the lesson. What worked well in my lesson was the worksheet; all of the people involved enjoyed it and found it very easy to use. The videos related to the assignment were also very fun and engaging which made it more enjoyable for the participants. The standards and objective of the lesson were all meet, each student was able to correctly identify all of the elements of the story. Everything worked out better than I had expected it to and it ran very smoothly. The only modifications I encountered were my computers sound not working and having to help the late arrival catch up.

                                 

2. Mechanics

The technologies that I used were YouTube videos and a premade inspiration program that I had created prior to the lesson. I had also created a survey to get instant feedback on how well my lesson went and get constructive input from my peers on how the lesson could be improved. The YouTube videos were used by the students the watch for the 5 major elements of a story and the inspiration assignment was used to check the understanding of the students’ knowledge of the topic. The lesson plan ran 2 minutes shorter than the allowed time frame. For this time I had all the peers compare their filled out assignments the check for similarities and differences. For the late arrival I had to skip the group part of the lesson plan for her, because I didn’t want to have the other students repeat the assignment and also there was not enough time left to do so.


3. Artifacts
All of my students completed the assignments perfectly. All of the objectives were meet within the lesson. All the students were able to correctly identify all of the major elements of a story. Only a few issues had occurred. All of the peer feedback surveys gave me nothing but praise.

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Lesson plan materials.

link to videos used in lesson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjw0ZLyzpE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a6Pe1ovKHg

Inspiration outline:

In bblearn discussion board

https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_group=courses&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Fcontent%2Ffile%3Fcmd%3Dview%26content_id%3D_2131549_1%26course_id%3D_56834_1%26framesetWrapped%3Dtrue

3rd lesson plan post

3^RD post: Assessment

Each student will be assessed on their understanding of topic and being able to correctly identify the correct story elements in their assignment. They will be required to do this in the program inspiration, where they will outline these 5 elements in a pre-made worksheet, where they fill in the correct responses in each area.

Grading sheet for inspiration outline:

Correctly identifies the 5 story elements: Scale 1-5, one point will be given for each correct response.

Organization of outline: scale 1-5, the story outline well be graded on how well organized the outline is, and also each response is placed in the correct area.

Details: scale 1-5, 1 point well be given for in depth details and examples given in each area of the outline, a point well be taken away for no details in each area.

lesson plan 2nd post

2^nd post: Implementation

·        Watch short story on youtube

·        Discuss the 5 main elements of a story(plot, setting, characters, themes, and conflict)

·        Identify these elements from the video as a group

·        Individually each student will watch another story

·        Using the program inspiration students will outline these 5 elements to test their understanding of the content and area

·        Teacher will review their outlines for accuracy to determine their understanding of the subject

·        Students will compare their outlines for similarities and differences

Technology integration:

Students will use the program inspiration to outline the elements of a story

Students will use youtube to view 2 different 5 minutes short stories that contain these 5 elements

Differentiated Instruction:

●            Cognitive delay

Depending upon the student’s level, a different video will be used that is easier to follow and a revised rubric will be applied to their created outlines

●            Gifted

Gifted learners will be tested with a more difficult video that requires the student to interpret the story at a more difficult level to identify these 5 main story elements.

●            ELL                                                                                                                                                   

  The video will have subtitles to allow them to follow the story with any language barriers.

Lesson plan 1st post

Elements of a Story

OVERVIEW

Grade Level: 4^th-5th

Subject: Language Arts

Topic of Study: Elements of a story (Plot, characters, themes, setting, conflicts)

Time Allotment: 30 minutes long

Standards:

● Craft and structure (AZ 3rd grade reading standard http://www.azed.gov/azccrs/elastandards/3-5/)

●Integration of knowledge and ideas (AZ 3rd grade writing standard 5 http://www.azed.gov/azccrs/elastandards/3-5/)

Objectives: (What do you want the students to know or be able to do?, I will be looking carefully on how they align with your assessment)

●            The Student will create a web outline that relates to the story they watched. In this activity the student will be required to identify the theme, setting, plot, characters, and conflicts that are related to the story they viewed. They will use the program inspiration to create this outline.(5.rL.2) (4.rL.3)