Lesson Plan

Curriculum Standard: Investigate the history and cultures of the regions of the Western Hemisphere (e.g., Canada, North America, Middle America, South America, and Antarctica).



Big Idea: Examine the characteristics of societies in the Western Hemisphere and trace their developments.



Preparation:

1. Introduce the regions of the Western Hemisphere.


2. Ask students if they know anything about any of these areas.


3. Go to www.brainpop.com/socialstudies.


4. Show students how to navigate around the site.


5. Break students up into groups.


6. Assign each group a topic

Guidance:

1. Groups use http://www.brainpop.com/ to investigate given topic.


2. The teacher walks around providing help with information and the website.

Application:

1. Groups work information into a lesson.


2. Groups teach the lesson to other classmates.

Assessment:

1. Each group will create an assessment that goes along with thier lesson for other students to take.
2. Teacher and class will work together to create a rubric assessing presentation skills (information, presentation, assessment, etc.)
3. Students will help assess each groups presentation according to the rubric.