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Ashley Ritz
Albert Simon
CI 350
9 November 2009
I. Analyze Learners
My Unit Plan was written for students in a 4th grade classroom. The
students would be between 9 and 10 years old. My goal is to cover who
and when each part of North America was discovered, when the first
colonies were established, and how colonists created a life for themselves
in the different colonies.
This website is geared toward teachers and is whole page of different links that can be
chosen for different events of Colonial America and the history of Colonial America.
○ http://www.teachervision.fen.com/american-colonies/teacher-resources/6606.html
This website is geared toward teachers and is a resource page. Here teachers can find
different arts and crafts, articles from personal accounts, and biographies of colonists.
as a class and students may answer if they think they know the right answer or
have an answer.
Day 4 – SS. O. 4. 4. 2
Students will be introduced to the New England, Middle, and Southern
colonies, along with names and founding dates of each of the states. The
interactive bulletin board will be used for this and students will match the name of
the colony with the state on the map. Interactions between the colonies will also
be introduced like what they used for transportation, which the colonists
interacted with each other, and what the colonist did for jobs, food, and clothing.
After seeing the bulletin board and learning about the colonies students will be
quizzed on the Smart Board. For homework students must read the chapter in the
text and highlight or take notes. This reading will be discussed during the next
class and students will be able to earn participation points.
Day 5 – SS. O. 4. 5. 6
The chapter on colonies will be discussed and notes will be compared
between the students and here they will be able to earn participation points.
Students will be introduced to the different family roles and social classes in each
of the different sections of the colonies. The class will be split into three groups
and each will be assigned a section of the Thirteen Colonies (i.e. New England,
Middle, and Southern). Each group will create a podcast of their section of the
colonies including family roles and social classes of each of the colonies. Each
team member must talk at least 3 times and they podcast needs to be creative; if
the student wish to they may take it home and work on it if it is not finished in
class.
Day 7 – SS. O. 4. 5. 11
The last day of the class English, French, and Spanish settlements will be
compared with each other. A PowerPoint will be provided on this and discussed
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during the first part of the class. Students will once again be separated into groups
and assigned a country. Students are expected to create a poster describing their
countries settlement and will be documented by camera. Students will have to
interact and speak to get full credit. A study guide for the whole unit will also be
handed out and worked on in groups. This will help the students prepare for the
assessment to come. There will be sometime left in class to work on the study
guide and students may use their fellow classmates for help.
question. A bonus question will also be added to the test of one interesting
fact that was taught over the unit.