Lesson Plans
Below are lessons I have taught to public elementary school inclusion classes. Each includes a description, objectives, standards, materials, and a reflection.
Description: In this lesson, students begin a new unit from Illustrated Mathematics in seeing fractions as division. This involves splitting sandwiches into different fractional amounts depending on the number of sandwiches and the number of people sharing them equally.
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Learning Objectives: Students will be able to explain orally and in writing a strategy for solving a whole-number division story problem with a solution that is a fraction. Students will be able to interpret orally and in writing a diagram that represents a whole-number division story problem with a solution that is a fraction.
Description: In this lesson, students learn about labor in the British colonies from a lesson rewritten from Investigating History, then have an opportunity to practice identifying jobs through a guessing game.
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Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to describe the work status (free, partly free, or enslaved) of people in the British colonies. Students will be able to describe verbally and in writing the job type of people in the British colonies. Students will use academic vocabulary to describe the work done in the thirteen colonies.
Description: In this two-part lesson series, students learn about the six types of simple machines and how to recognize them in everyday life. Students will apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems and design their own Rube Goldberg machine.
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Lesson 1 Objectives: Students will be able to explain verbally and in writing “What simple machine can you use to lift a lion?” in small-group and whole-class discussions using knowledge of simple machines.
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Lesson 2 Objectives: Students will be able to explain verbally and in writing “How do simple and complex machines perform a task?” in small-group discussions and independent work using knowledge of simple machines.
Description: In this lesson, students learn the context of the novel The Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis. Students read through the Author's Note and Historical Context to learn more about the setting of this historical fiction text.
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Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to describe verbally what inspired Deborah Ellis to write The Breadwinner and what she hoped to accomplish.​
