Name: Jonathan Brown

9-weeks
Date: 10/14/14
LEARNING
TAGETS:
-Students will be
introduced to the
Mountaineer Country
and Mountain Lakes
tourist regions of West
Virginia.
-Students will
analyze various
texts to discover
and collect
information
about a specific
tourist region of
West Virginia.
-Students will work

collaboratively to
produce a brochure
that relates to a
particular tourist
region of West
Virginia.

Grade: 8th
21st CENTURY
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
PresentationSS.8.G.6
SS.8.G.8
SS.8.H.CL7.1
Group ProjectSS.6-8.L.4
SS.6-8.L.13
SS.6-8.L.15
NSS Theme:
#3 People, Places, and
Environments
VOCABULARY

Chapter 2 Terms:
Tourist
Artifacts
Wildcatter

STRATEGIES
Attention Differences Guided Instruction
Physical Differences- Extended Time, Group
Collaboration
Communication Differences- Guided Instruction
Sensory Differences- Graphic Organizer
Multiple Intelligences Addressed:
-Verbal
-Spatial
-Logical
-Bodily

Subject: WV History

ACTIVITIES
-Students will be recording their brain and trivia in
their journals.
-I will be giving a PowerPoint presentation covering
the Mountain Lakes and Mountaineer Country tourist
regions.
-Students will be taking notes from the presentation on
the graphic organizer provided.
-If there is time left, students will be beginning work on
their tourist regions brochures.

ASSESSMENTS
-Assessments will be based off of students
completion of graphic organizers.
-Assessments of group projects will be made
using a provided rubric.

HOMEWORK
NONE