Monday's Lesson Plan

Because the last time I posted a sample lesson plan, I actually had to print it from this Blog because I forgot to email it to myself the night before. I have successfully emailed it, but here's another example of a lesson plan, but it's apportioning class time to work on our newspaper project.

Holly Metter / Neuroscience

Date: Week 6 / Day 1 / July 23
Subject: Class time to work on project

Lesson Objectives:
By the end of class, students will:

-complete a rough draft of full article and
brainstorm an idea for a picture

-choose a title for the class newspaper

Lesson Procedure:

Do Now: Match the following:

1. Parietal a. personality, social skills, planning, memory

2. Temporal b. spatial reasoning

3. Occipital c. sound and speech

4. Frontal d. connects right and left hemisphere

5. Cerebellum e. breathing, heart rate and connects to spinal cord

6. Brainstem f. vision

7. Corpus callosum g. coordination, walking, posture

Select Newspaper title (5 minutes)

We will brainstorm a list (Daily Dendrite, Brain Bulletin, The Brainiac)

We will vote, majority rules

Review Expectations (5 mins)

I will review with the class what I expect from their assignment:

* 4-5 paragraph essay

* Clever title for article

* an image

Student Work Time (30 mins)

* Students will spend the remainder of the time working on their essays.

* By the end of the class, I will personally check in with each student to answer any questions about their assignment or their work so far. I hope to proofread the work so far.

* By the end of class, each student will have a rough draft of their essay (4 to 5 paragraphs) and a title selected for it.

Homework: Complete rough draft and revise it – spellcheck it. Find image to include. If possible, type essay. Bring revised draft to class Tuesday.

Possible problems:

1. If students only have a soft copy of their document, I will send them to the library with a note asking a Teacher to please print and send the kid back to class

2. If students do not have sufficient information or an adequate outline, I will work with them to develop a better structure. I have given most students outside resources that are appropriate.

3. If necessary, I will pull a kid out of ALA Monday to continue working on this project.