Emily Bennett

IV. Integration of Standards into Curriculum and Instruction

I. | II. | III. | IV. | V. | VI. | VII. | Resume

       As an elementary teacher, it is critical that teachers plan lessons based on the state standards.  In my case, I use the Virginia Standards of Learning to decide what I will teach for each lesson. 
        My first artifact is a lesson plan, which is based on the Virginia SOLs as well as language objectives for English Language Learners.  This is how I always plan lessons.  It gives me a focus so that I know I am guiding students in the proper direction to teach them information that will be useful for them to know. 
       The second artifact is a grid that I created at the beginning of the school year.  I made it so that I could coordinate the units I will teach in social studies (completely based on SOLs and suggested order of units from county curriculum guides) with my writing and reading units, as well as to plan projects and books we read.  It has been very helpful for me to use my yearly plan each month to keep myself on track and to create more interdisciplinary lessons for each unit.
       Teachers must always use the standards of learning as a basis for instruction.  That way, students are guaranteed meaningful instruction. 

ARTIFACT #1

Lesson plan:  This lesson is designed for a mainstream classroom with all levels of English Language Learners and Native English Speakers.  A prior lesson has been taught on the Eastern Woodland Indian clothing and shelter adaptations and vocabulary has been introduced in 2 previous lessons. 

 

Weekly Objectives

Topic: Woodland Indians:  Adapting to their Climate

 

SOL Number:  VS.2E

LEP 1.2C, 1.4C, 1.4F, 1.6B

 

Essential Questions:  What are some of the characteristics of Virginia’s climate?  What are some ways Virginia’s American Indians adapted to the climate and interacted with their environment to meet their basic needs?

 

Daily Lesson Objective

The student will describe how American Indians adapted to the climate and their environment to secure food.

 

 

Daily Language Objectives

Vocabulary:   climate, adaptation, seasons, summer, spring, winter, fall

 

Language Structures: 

Use prior knowledge to interpret pictures.

Read and explain own readings and drawings.

Produce simple sentences on the topic.

Respond to factual questions about text

 

 

 

How will I activate prior knowledge?

Activating prior knowledge:

1. Think about what you do when it is cold outside?  How about when it’s really hot? 

 

Warm-up activity: Students will examine 4 photos of Indians adapting to their climate and explain in a group to decide which photo goes with the correct season. 

Instructional Delivery

 

Model everything students are supposed to do.

 

Am I using reading/writing/ listening/speaking?

How will I teach this concept? 

  1. Review vocabulary and read information posted in their interactive notebook. 
  2. Students will work together to identify the main idea by putting a square around the words and put a cloud around any unfamiliar words.
  3. Role-play the different adaptations to the seasons.
  4.  Go back and create illustrations and write about what they read in their interactive notebook.
  5. Word Sort with pictures and words.

 

Homework:  Draw a picture and summarize each of the four seasons and how they adapted to their environment. 

 

Differentiate Instruction:

How will I diversify instruction to meet the needs of all my students?

Advanced learners:  Will be required to write in paragraph form to explain why they only hunted birds and animals in the winter.

 

New learners:   Illustrate and use vocabulary words.

Closure/Assessment

How will I close the lesson?  The lesson will be closed by checking word sorts and allowing them time to glue it to construction paper for classroom display.  Pair students to explain word sorts and then ask a few students to share with the whole class. 

 

How will I assess the lesson?   Through the word sort and interactive notebook.

 

Homework:   4 block adaptation worksheet.

Materials?

 

Interactive notebooks, adapting to climate paragraph, pictures, word sort for each student or pair of students, highlighters, colored pencils

 

 

 

 

ARTIFACT #2

 

My Yearly Plan to Implement

Virginia Standards of Learning

 

SEPT

OCT

NOV

End Q1-9th

DEC

JAN

End Q2-25th

FEB

MARCH

End Q3-30th

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

End Q4-22th

----Making

 

Connections

 

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Visualizing

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& Inferring

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Nonfiction-

 

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Synthesizing

Info.------

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Biographies:

-Fredrick Douglass,

-Harry Houdini,

-Rachel Carson

 

 

 

 

Memoir Picture Books

Hatchet

Brian’s Song?

Pink + Say,

A Starving Time,

Other Jamestown diary books

A Strong Right Arm

Nonfiction Picture Books

 

 

 

Memoir

Adventure/

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(Realistic Fiction)-à

Historical

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Fiction

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Nonfiction

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Picture Books

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Poetry------

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Compile Yearly Booklets

 

50 States

 

VA Regions

Jamestown

Before the Rev. War

Revolutionary

War

Civil War

Reconstruction

Civil Rights + VA Govt.

SOL Review

 

 

Floats

Power Points

 

 

Dress Up

 

Games

 

Dodec.

LOC Video Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nutrition

Family Life