Context
This original lesson plan was created as a fulfillment of my course work for CI 3110 Social Studies Methods in the Fall 2005 semester.  This lesson plan can be used with fourth grade in teaching about North Carolina's history, particularly the Coastal Plain's regional history. 

Impact
This lesson can be used to teach students about the history of North Carolina, as well as how the state was initially settled.  In teaching this lesson, I addressed several NCSCOS goals such as teaching the students about the history of colonization, specifically the Lost Colony and their settlement.  Another goal that was met through designing and teaching this lesson was that of having students write an imaginative response to information text so as to increase their reading and writing fluency.  This addresses several NCSCOS goals for fourth grade writing. The technology component of this lesson addresses the need for fourth graders to be able to word process documents and practice keyboarding techniques.  Students will have a chance to experience many different aspects and subjects of learning by participating in this lesson.

Alignment

• Standard 4

Indicator 8: This lesson plan shows my understanding of historical concepts concerning North Carolina because I had to read and research the Lost Colony in order to be able to understand it and teach my students.

• Standard 7
  Indicator 2:  This standard is met because I integrated my social studies lesson with language arts and technologies that were appropriate for the lesson, such as word processing students' writing.
  Indicator 5: This standard was met because I helped students develop multiple learning strategies, including critical thinking by asking students a higher order thinking question based on Bloom's Taxonomy so that they could complete a writing assignment.  Students developed multiple learning strategies by listening, analyzing, and writing.
  Indicator 6:  Individual needs of students were met in my creating alternatives ways to teach students with diverse needs such as higher and lower level learners, auditory learners, and visual learners.
  Indicator 7: In designing a lesson that could be assessed formatively and summatively, both individually and as a whole, this lesson meets the needs for teachers to design a variety of assessments to gauge student learning on multiple levels.

• Standard 8
  Indicator 3: I encouraged students to think critically by what they read in that I asked them to think about everything they had heard and read about the Lost Colony, and then write a narrative as if they were a member of the Lost Colony.  This encouraged students to think critically, and it also meets the indicator for this standard.