Jane Doe

LTEC 4100

9/16/2009

EC-6 ESL

INTRO

• Discover Historical Fort Worth

• 3rd Grade

• Social Studies

• 2 weeks for an hour and a half a day

Analyze Learners

• 22 students• 12 males and 10 females• 8-9 years old• Majority are minorities• After living in Fort Worth they

have visited Downtown and the Stockyards at least once

• 50 kinesthetic learners, 20 auditory learners, and 30 visual learners

Learning Objectives

• §113.5 (1A)  describe how individuals, events, and ideas have changed communities over time

• §113.5 (3B)  create and interpret timelines; and

• §113.5(3C)  describe historical times in terms of years, decades, and centuries

Learning Objectives• §113.5 (16B)sequence and categorize

information • §113.5  (18A)use a problem-solving

process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution; and

• §113.5 (18B)  use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision.

Blooms Taxonomy

• Knowledge– Recalls or recognizes information– knowledge of dates, events, places – knowledge of major ideas – mastery of subject matter

• Comprehension– interpret facts, compare, contrast – order, group, infer causes – understanding information

• Application– use information

Blooms Taxonomy…cont.

• Analysis– organization of parts – identification of components

• Synthesis – generalize from given facts – relate knowledge from several areas

• Evaluation– compare and discriminate between

ideas – assess value of theories,

presentations

How I plan to teach this lesson

• Day 1: Discuss what we will be learning and the projects we will be doing and the field trip that will hopefully take place.

• Day 2 : Go more in depth about the projects (travel brochures for new and old Fort Worth and a Timeline from the settling and establishment of Fort Worth to now). Discussion of the Alamo and the battle of the Alamo

How I plan to teach…cont.

• Day 3: Important people in historical Fort Worth. How the people who first settled in Texas lived. What they ate and how they traveled. Video:

• Day 4: Discuss important historical landmarks and why they were and are so important. Have students separate into small groups and begin working on their travel brochures

How I plan to teach…cont.

• Day 5: Discussion about important dates in Texas history. Continued work on travel brochures

• Day 6: Assign each student group a set of dates and then head off to the library for extra research. Using Google, EBSCO, and other educational research sites.

How I plan to teach…cont.

• Day 7: Another day of research in the library and have students begin working on their timeline.

• Day 8: Working on timeline in class

• Day9: Working on timeline in class

• Day 10: Field trip to the Historical Stockyards and Downtown Fort Worth.

How I will evaluate the effectiveness

• Challenge questions at the end of every lesson to each group and requiring them to get a certain number of points to have pizza on the field trip, instead of sack lunches.

• Grading the timeline and brochure to see how much information they learned and how they displayed what they learned.

How I will evaluate the effectiveness

• I will also give a small test at the end of the lesson, after the field trip to see what they have learned.

• Student participation will play a part in evaluating how comfortable they are with the information

• I will observe how comfortable they are with doing research online and in the library.

References/ Credits

• http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/exams/blooms-taxonomy.html

• http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113a.html

• http://www.fortworthstockyards.org/

• http://www.fortworthgov.org/