Class: 7th Grade/Social Studies                               

Teacher:Lee Ann Erickson               Unit: Trade and Culture

Date: 11/07                                         Topic: Eastern Hemisphere Geography

Lesson Title:Resources and Trade   

Content Objective:

 Students will have a better understanding of the definitions of resources and trade

Literacy Objectives:

Students will discuss with their groups the details of their element and then write down what they decide are the details that describe their element.

Students will write down notes on an in class presentation.

Materials/Resources needed:pencils or pens, computer, class set of laminated maps and/or globes, “Candyland” index cards, picture of Candyland Board, paper, Google Doc presentations on Trade and Resources

Adaption

**IEP and ELL students will receive extra instruction for clarification and extra time if needed.

Note to self:

Write on the board Agenda items:

1. Trade and Culture Review - Candyland

2. Resources and Trade-Mini Lesson

3. Online-Research EH Resources

4. Homework- Reading Packet #3-Due Wednesday

            -highlight the vocabulary words we talked about in class today

Future Due Dates:

            Personal Atlases Wednesday 11/08

            Cornell Notes on Culture 11/08

            Reading Small Group questions (1, 2 and 3)

            Cornell Notes on Resources and Trade 11/08

Welcome/Fill in Agendas and settle down.       

Go ahead and log on and turn off your monitors as well as fill in your agenda, as you are filling in your agenda, I am going to go around the room and pass out an index card to you. Hold onto it and when you finish your agenda I will tell you what we are going to do with them.

I want you to note the future dates I’ve included on the board. Remember that homework is due on Wednesday. The Personal Atlas you have been working on will be due on Wednesday so that I can review and score them before you take it home to use as a study aid for the test coming up next Monday. Remember that there isn’t any school Friday so you’ll have all weekend to study for that test.

Let’s refocus, eyes on me.

Set:

Who is familiar with the game Candyland? Today we are going to look at this picture of the board that you play that game on and create and write down the details that would describe one part or element that would make up a culture for Candyland.

Input:

Take that index card I just gave you and hold it up with the color of the square facing everyone else. When I say “Go” I want you to move and find the other people with the same color that you have and sit down with them. You will need your card and a pencil for this activity. “Go”

We are going to describe what the elements of the culture of Candyland are. Each of your index card also says in the bottom right hand side which element of culture you will be describing. There are 8 groups, one for each element of culture. Keep in mind everything you know about the game of Candyland you are going to make up the details of that element I have given you.  You have 10 minutes to write the details of your element of culture. We will present what you wrote tomorrow.                                                                                                                                              

  10 min

                                                                                                                        (Transition 3 min)

Closure:

Let's review again what the elements of culture are, raise your hand and tell me one element.  

Set:

On Wednesday you need to have read the 3^rd and last reading packet I gave you. So that you have some background when you do the reading we are going to talk about some of the key words you’ll be seeing in that reading.

Input:

We are going to move on to the trade and resources presentation I have for you. Please get out a piece of paper to take some notes, please use Cornell style notes since you are used to doing them that way already.

20 min

Daily Reflection:

           The students had a lot of fun with the Candyland activity today. The intent of the activity was to continue to build on the idea that culture could be almost anything and that by know what it is that makes up the culture as a whole you could start with the whole and move to the parts.

            I am eager to put together the elements they came up with into one whole story and share it with them tomorrow.

            I was also to start tying in some information on trade routes today when I did the resources presentation. There was an amazing photo I found of modern day trade routes that I included in the presentation on resources and want to briefly go over transportation with the class tomorrow.

            We did not have time to get to the research I wanted them to do on ancient trade routes in the Eastern Hemisphere. While I did not intend to include an lessons on specific trade routes in my 10 day lesson because of how much more coverage on culture and geography did, I wanted them to be ready to begin start studying the Silk Road when they were done because that is was their regular teacher would be covering in their lesson. I believe it will also help tie in what we had been talking about as far as cultures trading with each other, the geography we’d looked at and the idea of the change in transportation.

            I find I’m learning to make adjustments as I go much easier now. Lesson plans aren’t nearly as cumbersome and I find that I can make bullet points or write brief sentences and it’s enough to remind me what I wanted to cover and keep me on track for sticking to the overall objectives for the lesson.