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Content Area
Social Studies
Content Standards
Georgia Performance Standards
1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format ( e.g., textual,
visual, media, digital) in order to make inference and gather meaning.
2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information.
SSCG9 The student will explain the differences between the House of
Representatives and the Senate, with emphasis on terms of office, powers,
organization, leadership, and representation of each house .
Understandings
Essential Questions
Overarching Understandings
Overarching questions
Students will understand the differences between the House and Senate and their
roles in the legislative process
Related Misconceptions
Who are the Majority and Minority leaders for each body?
Students will know the number of members and what they are based on.
After the lesson the students will be able to describe the difference between the House and Senate. Students will be able to
describe roles of both branches of Congress.
Goal
Roles- Under the guidance of the instructor and media specialist the students will create an interactive poster and create a constructed response
Audience: 10th and 11th Graders teachers, media specialist
Situations Students will work in the classroom environment
Product: Students will create an interactive poster
Other Evidence: Students will be provided a handout on plagiarism
Students will bring prior knowledge regarding the House and Senate. Students will answer a constructed response at the which will be
very similar to the one completed prior to the start of the lesson.
The lesson will begin with students watching the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qC32JRxOF8 . In this video students in
New York are asked to create a project on the differences between the House and Senate. After viewing the video students will be
asked what information they have on the differences between the two houses of Congress.
The students along with their partners or by themselves will complete A Glogster Interactive poster on the differences. The teacher will
provide the students with a list of resources. The students are expected to list the difference in terms, leadership, powers, and
representation. The poster must include one of each.
Students will be provided a rubric to evaluate their work as they complete their posters. The students will be reminded to evaluate their
posters based on the rubric.
Students will be encouraged to reflect on the information they have used to create their posters and answer the constructed response.
What are the differences? Do you see one body as more powerful than the other? Why or why not?
How will you tailor and other wise Students will be allowed to use the medium of their choosing to create the poster. They can use audio (voice), pictures, or websites to
personalize the learning plan to
create their posters. They can also choose other mediums such as easel.ly or power point if they choose.
optimize the engagement and
effectiveness of all students,
without compromising the goals
of the unit.
How will you organize and
sequence the learning activities
to optimize the engagement and
achievement of all students.
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