Teaching American History – Lesson Plan Template



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Social Studies Lesson Plan Template

1. Title: New Frontiers: Moving west / 11th grade American History

2. Overview - Big Ideas:

Enduring Understandings – It is important for students to understand:

• What influences the development of the American Cowhand culture

• Geographical factors that led to the settlement of the Plains and the West

• Creation of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Negative effects of federal policies against Native Americans.

Essential Questions – (What provocative questions will you use to foster inquiry, understanding and transfer of learning?)

What were the major causes and effects of the American Expansion to the West?

3. Lesson Objectives and Key Vocabulary:

• The objective of this lesson is to have students understand the number of factors that lured settlers to moving westward, and how this movement forced Native Americans onto Reservations.

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

• SS.912.A.2.7: Review the Native American experience.

• SS.912.A.3.1: Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to the challenges in the mid to late 1800s

• SS.912.A.3.6: Analyze changes that occurred as the United States shifted from agrarian to an industrial society.

• SS.912.A.1.1: Describe the importance of historiography, which includes how historical knowledge is obtained and transmitted, when interpreting events in history.

• SS.912.A.1.2: Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify author, historical significance, audience, and authenticity to understand a historical period.

• SS.912.A.1.3: Utilize timelines to identify the time sequence of historical data.

Key Terms

• Homestead, Transcontinental Railroad, government boarding school, Great Plains, longhorns, Forty-Niners, gold rush, assimilation, open range, barbed wire, placer mining, dry farming, cowboys, frontier thesis, Bonanza farms

4. Evidence of Student Understanding (Assessment) in this Lesson:

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this lesson?

What will students be able to do as a result of such knowledge and skills?

Both formative and summative assessments are included

5. Materials Needed: (Include primary sources you will use in this lesson)

• American History Textbook

• Power Point on the on the New Frontiers “Moving West”.

• Handout : advertisement “ Promise to the West”

• Handout : Using Photographs In Historical Investigation (AVID Write Path p.47)

• Think –Pair – share ( AVID Write Path II P. 138)

• Handout : Supporting Idea Chart (AVID Write Path p.115)

• Classroom Computers

6. Steps to Deliver the Lesson:

• Introduce your lesson by having the student’s analyze and write details on advertisement “Promise to the West”. “then have the students complete “ identify and examine parts of the Using Photographs In Historical Investigation handout (AVID Write Path p.47)

• Have the students sit with a partner and discuss their discoveries.” Think –Pair – share strategy ( AVID Write Path II P. 138)

• Present “PowerPoint” on the New Frontiers “Moving West” while students are taking Cornell Notes. During this part of the lesson, students must define key terms and the identify main idea of the lesson

• Have the students create a graphic organizer on the causes and effects of the Westward movement (AVID Write Path p.13)

• Close your lesson by having them write a summary on their Cornell Notes.

7. Specific Activities: (From Guided to Independent)

For every activity mentioned below, the teacher will demonstrate the strategies before gradually releasing responsibility from teacher led instruction to independent work

• Teacher will present PowerPoint and guide students through their Cornell Notes. Student will have the responsibilities to define the key terms and complete their Costas Level of question individually based on their understanding of the information.

• Student will create a graphic organizer on the causes and effects of the Westward movement. (Independently)

• Students write the summaries and Costas level 2 and 3 for their Cornell Notes ( Independently)

8. Differentiated Instruction Strategies:

Describe how you will accommodate a variety of student learning needs, remediation strategies as well as enrichment strategies.

• Vocabulary in context ( ELL)

• Rephrasing and simplifying ( ESE, ELL)

• Charts and Graphs ( ESE, ELL)

• Give Examples (ESE, ELL)

• Peer Grouping (ESE, ELL)

• Accommodations as noted on IEP. (ESE)

9. Technology Integration:

Describe activities incorporating technology; e.g., address lesson content through online resources.

• PowerPoint presentation to provide the students an overview of the Movement Westward on the New Frontier.

10. Lesson Closure:

Description of methods to draw ideas together, review concepts, etc.

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