Class: 7th Grade/Social Studies                               

Teacher:Lee Ann Erickson               Unit: Trade and Culture

Date: 10/31                                      Topic: Eastern Hemisphere Geography

Lesson Title:Pre-assessment and Eastern Hemisphere

Content Objectives: (SWBAT)

Students will be able to locate the Eastern Hemisphere on a world atlas.

Students will be able to identify and locate at least 5 of 10 countries presented in today’s lesson.

Literacy Objectives:

Students will write down a list of countries covered in the daily lesson.

Students will write and label a pre-unit survey.

Students will take home a 3 page reading packet for their independent practice.

Materials/Resources needed:classroom set of laminated world maps, dry eraser pens, pencils, pre-assessment, smart board, note book paper (for notes), lap top with Google Earth Prsentation, Eastern Hemisphere Presentation,

 3 page Reading Packet to take home (see Reading Packet #1 under Daily Plans).

Input: Students should already be aware of that there are different parts to a globe as well as different regions of the world.

They should also be aware that each continent is made up of different countries and cities.  This understanding will be reinforced throughout today’s lesson.

Note to self: Write on white board:

            Agenda items:                                    Objectives:

1.      Unit Survey                              1. SWBAT locate the Eastern Hemisphere on a world atlas.

2.      Eastern Hemisphere                2. SWBAT identify and locate several countries presented in today’s lesson.

3.      Exit Pass

4.      Reading Packet: Read by Wednesday 11/02

            Class Expectations: Respect, Attention and Determination (RAD)

Set:  Welcome/Fill in Agendas and settle down.                

Hi everyone! I know some of you probably already have your agendas out because you know that is what you are supposed to do, please finish filling in your agenda. There are four items we’ll go over, first we are going to take a unit survey, then we’ll be doing a short lesson about the Eastern Hemisphere, third you will be completing an Exit Pass which will be you showing me what you remember from today’s lesson you will be taking home a short reading packet to be read by Wednesday. I know you don’t normally get home work on Mondays, but I’m going to change this up just a little while I’m here. 

When you are finished please make sure you have a pencil or a pen ready when you are done, we’ll be doing an activity right after we have finished our agendas and I have your attention.            

I would like everyone to turn their chair so they are facing me for 2 minutes. As you may have already guessed I start teaching today. The days I’ve been here before were just observation and assisting days, now I’m the teacher and Mr. Rideout is the assistant.  We are going to get right to business and if I can have your attention during the lesson and activities we’ll play a game at the end of class, but if I don’t get the attention and focus I know we need in order to get our work done, we won’t be able to. Am I going to have your attention? There are two more things I want to show you on the board here: I will always write what I expect you to learn in each class right here. I’ll update it every day, so if you are the kind of person who likes to know what is always going on, you can look right here every day and you will know. The second thing is my expectations of you.  I expect you to RESPECT each other and me, always being paying ATTENTION to me, to your peers and to your surroundings and last I expect DETERMINATION from you, I will see your determination by how well you focus and participate. The number one thing I want to see you all do is try you’re hardest. Let’s all be R.A.D

Please get out a pencil or pen and be ready for your first activity.

(5 min)

                                                                                                                        transition 1 min

SET: What is a survey?

Pre-Assessment: Today we are going to take a survey. Raise your hand if you know what a survey is? A survey is a series of questions that is going to tell me what you know about certain subjects. We are doing this because I don’t want to waste your time going over things in class you already know, although I know you might think that is easier, I also think it would be boring to teach you something you already know! I want you to try to answer every question.  If you think you know, then I want you to write down what you think you know. You might know the answer you might not, either one is ok, but I need to know that.  I want you to also write in complete sentences and use your neatest handwriting.

 Once I start handing these out, you are no longer allowed to talk until everyone is done with their survey.  While I am handing these surveys out, please turn your chair around and move your keyboard so you have room to write. As soon as I hand it to you go ahead and start working on it.  Are you allowed to talk when I start handing them out? No, Right, please no more talking until all of you are done. When you are done, I want you to turn over your test and draw a picture or write a story on the back that tells me something about yourself. I’m going to write the steps for this portion of the class on the board while you get started.

1.      When I have handed you your survey, start working.

2.      When you are done with your survey, turn it over and draw a picture or write a story.

3.      Please be quiet until everyone is done.

 I will let you know when we are all finished and we will take a minute to stand up and stretch and then hand them in.                 

Adaption

**For those students who have IEP designations indicating they will need additional time for in-class work and tests there

are a several options for them to get the extra time they need it. There is an LRC room in the school, there is a library and

there are empty classrooms available. Based on availability and if the student ends up needing more time than the rest of

he class then we can move them to a different area of the school to finish. If they didn’t want to do that, I will give them extra

time the next day to finish.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                (30 min)

Gather pre-assessment                                                                                                                                                                    (2 min)

                                                                                                                                                                                                 transition 3 min

Set: Projected picture of Earth on the Smart Board, What is this picture of?

Mini-lesson:

Thank you for your focus on the survey, I will look at them tonight and then we’ll go over them tomorrow. Please bring your chairs closer to the front desk so you can see the screen. Please sit down and eyes forward.

In today’s lesson we are going to go over locating specific Eastern Hemisphere countries so that you will be able to locate them on a map when we begin to talk about specific trade routes because this unit we are beginning today is Culture and Trade. We are going to begin with finding where the four hemispheres of the Earth are.

What are the four ways we tell direction: North, South, East, and West (pointing to each spot on the picture?)

Does anyone know what the line that separates the East from the West? The Prime Meridian.

Who remembers which invisible line separates the North from the South? The Equator.

When I show you this picture, if you focus on the green area of the map, which area does it show, which hemisphere is top part of the globe? Northern Hemisphere and can you tell me which continents are in the Northern Hemisphere? Now if you look at the picture of the globe and focus on this area (pointing to the southern region) which is hemisphere is this? The Southern Hemisphere and which continents are in the Southern Hemisphere?  How about this region (pointing to the western region)? The Western Hemisphere and which countries are located here? Which leaves the last region which is what? and which continents are in the Eastern Hemisphere?

We are going to focus on the Eastern Hemisphere. Take a look at this picture, which continent is this? Africa. Let’s look at the next one. Which one is this? Asia. What about this one? Europe. And the last one? Oceania. Great job!

Here is the Earth again. We are going to look at the continents of the Eastern Hemisphere and look closer at some specific countries. 1. Egypt 2. China 3. France 4. Spain 5. Italy 6. Malaysia 7. Saudi Arabia 8. India 9. Japan 10. Ethiopia

We are going to go through each region and country again, please raise your hand if know what the name of the country or region is.  (Atlas projected on the board to point to as they verbally tell me the names)

                                                                                                                                     (15 min)

Closure: Exit Pass: On a piece of paper, write the name of the hemisphere we are focusing on, which continents we are focusing on and then list the name of every country you remember that we identified. You have 3 minutes, please no talking, And Go.

                                                                                                                                        (3 min)

Independent Practice: Reading packet Due Wednesday                                                     Total 58 min

Lesson Reflection:

Today’s lesson went really well! I had already built a really good repoire with the students and when I took over they didn’t seem at all disturbed or disrupted by the change. Because I had talked to them when I was there previously and explained I’d be teaching a class, although they didn’t know which class I would be teaching it wasn’t a surprise them when I announced at the beginning that I would be taking over. Mr. Rideout (my cooperating teacher) was still in the classroom, but he was there just as support.

I started the lesson with the pre-assessment, explaining to them it was a survey and I just wanted them to try and answer as much as they could. It ended up taking longer than I thought it would, and I made some adjustments in the original lesson so that they could have time to finish as much as they could.   They seemed to react to the pre-assessment well, I did have to go around and answer individual questions about clarifying the questions (there are a number of ELL and transitioned ELL students in my class).  Once we finished up the pre-assessment I brought them in around the smart board to do a presentation on the hemispheres, continents and then Google Earth presentation on specific countries located in the Eastern Hemisphere. It was very interactive and conversational. The Students seemed to really like the Google Earth presentation and were offering up comments and asking additional questions about things we were looking at.

I believe the lesson was at least effective enough to get them thinking about these regions. My intention was to introduce the hemispheres and countries to get them thinking more specifically about the region so that when we looked at it the next day and I asked them to recall locations they would be able to have a place to start from. Their exit pass was to list as many of the countries and continents we talked about during the lesson and for the most part they were able to list at least 4 or 5 out of the 14 we talked about, there were several who were able to list almost all of them.  My intention with this lesson was to begin to create some awareness and prior knowledge. They may not know how to locate these 14 regions that day, however the next day when we begin to actually work on putting them onto a map or recall the locations they will have a place to begin by having heard the names and seen where they go at least once.  I considered it a successful lesson based on the fact that we were able to pick up the next day having seen this information and continue to build on the previous lesson.