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Welcome to Aubrey Radford's Wiki Lesson Plan Page Hello, everybody! My name is Aubrey Radford, and I am an Early Childhood Education major and hospitality management minor at the University of Central Florida. I am now in my junior year here at the beautiful, giant school, and I am having the time of my life. Going to UCF has been such a great oppurtunity; I have made so many amazing friends and accomplished so many things. I am currently the Vice President of my sorority on campus, Zeta Tau Alpha. The leadership and management skills I am learning and have already learned are going to benefit me for the rest of my life. I come from a big family; I have three little brothers and two little step-sisters, and I love all of them to death. My mom and step dad are my best friends and I don't know what I would do without them. I love to read and listen to music, and I one day hope to apply for the Teach for America program and see where life takes me! I hope you enjoy my wiki. :)  Below you will see the ASSURE model of the lesson plan on this wikispace. Much more detail will follow on next pages. ENJOY!    Name of Lesson: The Constitution and Our Government: The foundation of our nation

3 Sunshine State Standards Addressed: 1. SS.3.C.1.1 - - "Explain the purpose and need for a government."

2. SS.3.C.1.3 - - "Explain how the government was written through a written constitution."

3. SS.3.C.3.4 - - "Recognize the Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of the land."

As best you can tell, describe the learners for whom this lesson is intended. What else do you think you would need to know about them? || Carefully review the lesson plan. Identify the objectives. If the lesson plan has learning objectives that do NOT meet the ABCD criteria, rewrite them. You... You should have at least 3 learning objectives that meet the ABCD formula. Remember, think Action Verbs!
 * A  || ** A= Analyze your Learners **
 * ^  || The learners for this lesson will be third grade students with a small amount of prior knowledge of the United States of America's history. These students have a developing attention span and due to being born in an age where technology rules, they will be more responsive to activities that require watching videos and physically making something. ||
 * S  || ** S = State your Objectives **

A=Audience; B=Behavior; C=Condition and D=Degree. ||
 * ^  || ** Objectives: ** Students will be able to state the definitions of the vocabulary words, explain the purpose and need for a government, explain the way the U.S. wrote it’s laws through the constitution and how the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. The incorporation of technology is key in these lessons.

Bloom's Taxonomy that this lesson targets: Knowledge, Comprehension, and Analysis

A = Audience = Children, 3rd Grade ; encourage the use of technology through the class wiki (links, quiz); allow the children hands on activity with the “Family Constitution”.

B = Behavior = Children will pay attention and follow directions and act accordingly to create their own “Family Constitution”, do worksheets, and take an assessment quiz at the end of the lessons.

D = Degree = The degree of “difficulty” is challenging, but with proper attention and instruction it can be accomplished. There is a degree of fun due to the making of the “Family Constitution”. || In this section, make a list of what materials are needed for this lesson plan. If they don't specify any technology, think of how you might do that! Try to think of two different things you or your students could do with technology... Maybe you can find a good multimedia site to use in this lesson? How about using word processing instead of writing? You might be able to use a spreadsheet or PowerPoint? || How are the materials used? || Explain what the students are doing. How will they use technology in this lesson? || Lesson 2 Part 1 entails the students watching the U.S. Constitution video, participating in a short discussion, and then beginning their own “Family Constitution” by making a draft to bring home which their parents will review and revise. Lesson 2 Part 2 entails the students copying their work onto an old tattered piece of paper and making it appear old with the aid of damn tea bags. The students will share some of their constitutions. They will also be writing in their journals and entering in a class discussion. In Lesson 1 Part 2, the students will take a quiz to test their knowledge after the lesson has been completed. || How do you assess student learning? || The constitution is merely a completion grade as well because all of them will be subjective. The quiz at the end of the unit will be a good quantifier of what the students have learned, and they will receive a grade for their scoring out of ten questions. The total points available will be 20, half completion and half assessment. ||
 * S  || ** S = Select Media and Materials **
 * ^  || The materials needed for this lesson are the social studies text book “Our Communities”, old paper, black tea bags, access to the computer lab/internet, writing journal, take-home handout of the “Family Constitution” and the quiz review worksheet, vocabulary worksheets, a Smart Board, ||
 * U  || ** U = Utilize Media and Materials **
 * ^  || The materials in this lesson are many and very useful. The textbook will be a reading excerpt about the U.S. Constitution leading into the vocab activity. The internet will be used to integrate the videos from the class wikispace, and also allow the students to define their vocabulary words on worksheets, as well as administer a quiz. The old paper and tea bags will be used in the making of the “Family Constitution”. The Smart board will be a means to put the questions asked of the class up so they can all see. ||
 * R  || ** R = Require Learner Participation **
 * ^  || In Lesson 1 Part 1, students will be listening to an excerpt from the textbook, then defining vocabulary words onto a worksheet using links provided on the class wikispace.
 * E  || ** E = Evaluate and Revise **
 * ^  || To evaluate the student learning, I will see if the student can correctly fill in the vocabulary sheet, and then verbally repeat the vocabulary when asked. This will be a completion grade.