Backward Design Lesson Plan Template

Name Lesson title Shelby Denman Subject _Social Studies_____ Grade level Preschool

Community Helpers

Step 1Desired Results Standards, benchmarks, other objectives as needed (e.g., IEP)What should students know, understand, and be able to do as a result of the lesson? The United States government has specific functions that are determined by the way that power is delegated and controlled among various bodies: the three levels (federal, state, local) and the three branches (legislative, executive, judicial) of government.

Identify workers in our community Preschoolers will be able to identify the community helpers 100% of the time when shown pictures of people in uniform.

Step 2Assessment Evidence Performance taskWhat will students do to show what they have learned? Performance criteriaHow good is good enough to meet standards?

Assess children individually by showing them pictures and having them explain whom it is and what they do.

Step 3Learning Plan

Learning activities (step by step from start to finish, detailed enough for another teacher to follow) Read the story All through my Town Students will learn the Community Helpers song on YouTube (connected to PowerPoint) As a group, navigate through the PowerPoint about community helpers. Assess children individually by showing them pictures and having them explain whom it is and what they do. Also, allow children to navigate through the PowerPoint themselves and see if they get the correct answers.

Adapted from Tomlinson and McTighe, Integrating Differentiated Instruction + Understanding by Design , ASCD, 2006.

Tools for Assessment

Written Advertisement Biography Book report Book review Brochure Campaign speech Crossword puzzle Editorial Essay Experiment record Game Journal Lab report Letter Log Magazine article Memo Newspaper article Poem Portfolio Position paper Proposal Questionnaire Research report Script Story Test Yearbook Oral Audiotape Balagtasan Debate Discussion Dramatization Haiku Interview Newscast Oral presentation Oral report Poetry reading Rap Readers Theater Role play Skit Speech Song Teach a lesson Visual Advertisement Banner Brochure Campaign flyer Cartoon Chart Collage Collection Computer graphic Construction Data display Design Diagram Display Diorama/shoebox Drawing Graph Graphic Organizer Map Mobile Model Painting Photograph Portfolio Poster Scrapbook Sculpture Slide show Storyboard Venn Diagram Videotape Kinesthetic Community outreach Dramatization Field trips Letter writing Oral interviews Play Presentation Service learning Simulations Role play Skit Scavenger hunt