Day3 assure
- 1. ASSURE DAY 3 THE BREAKING POINT
- 2. ANALYZE THE LEARNERS I am teaching a class room in rural West Virginia. My class consists of 13 males and 10 females. The breakdown of the class is that 90% are Caucasian with 5% African American and 5% Latino. There are no learning disabilities in the class, but there is one child who is wheel chair bound and will not be able to participate in any physical activities. They have somewhat limited resources since they are from poorer homes, but they all have access to computers, internet, and cell phones.
- 3. STATE OBJECTIVES - This day is entirely focused on the couple events that lead to the official start of the war. The engagements at Lexington and Concord and the battle of Bunker Hill to be exact. I am going to use new kinds of technology to create an interesting learning environment instead of lecturing them in a traditional history teacher fashion.
- 4. SELECT METHODS, MEDIA, AND MATERIALS - Students will need a computer with a webcam facing themselves so that they can film themselves. This will allow them to make a video of them talking and teaching about the battle of Bunker Hill. - Each student will need a smart phone with internet capabilities. This is so that they will be able to download the App Zello and be able to participate in the communication part of Lexington and Concord. - I want each student to create a poster. So they will need large poster boards with markers and a printer.
- 5. UTILIZING METHODS, MEDIA, AND MATERIALS - The first part of this lesson is going to be the students making a narrative video of themselves narrating the battle of Bunker Hill. This will get them used to talking in front of people and recording themselves. We will use the computers in the computer lab with web cameras. - The second part of the lesson will be using Zello. During the battle of Lexington and Concord the minute men passed the word of the British approach door to door. I am going to make a list of the class and they have to pass a message on zello one after the other by memory and we will see how different the message is by the end of the class. - Lastly, I want the class to create large posters with American assets in the war so that we can hang them in the classroom.
- 6. REQUIRE LEARNER PARTICIPATION All of these activities will be able to be done by everyone in the classroom. They are all technology based and I will have all of these materials at the school for them. The poster and video lessons will be graded personally by me. The zello assignment is more just a fun thing for the class to do so I will not be grading that.
- 7. EVALUATE AND REVISE The students enjoyed all of the activities of this lesson plan. The only thing that I noticed after this lesson is that they did not retain a ton of information about Lexington and Concord. I need find a way to incorporate more information based learning to that part of the assignment.