Lesson Plan Form Day 2 / 3 (4) Webquest Data Gathering

Teacher: Mark Lanza Subject: Social Studies / Colonial America

Central Focus: Webquest of Colonial America Grade Level: 5th

State Specific Goal(s) and Objective(s) for the Lesson: 5.0 United States History and
Geography: Making a New Nation 5.4 Students understand the political, religious,
social and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era. Content areas will
include 5.4.3 (religious aspects). 5.4.5 (free market economic systems) and 5.4.6 (issues
surrounding slavery) Reading / Language Arts: 2.0 Reading Comprehension: 2.3
Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and assessing evidence that
supports those ideas. 2.5 Distinguish facts, supported inferences, and opinions in texts.
Pre-Assessments connecting to prior Knowledge / prior learning: Review KWL
charts from previous day.
Identified Academic Language to be addressed: Review wordwall terms /additions
from previous day.

Learner Characteristics:
a) Special Need: None
b) English Language Learner: None
c) Other: 3 boys that require constant checking in to ensure they stay on task.
Lesson Delivery:
Set: After tapping into the background knowledge of the kids (K) and what they want to
know (W), day 2 and 3 will focus on the L (learning) portion of the lesson plan(s).

Instruction: Kids are broken out into 4 groups of 6 kids. Each group will have 3 Mac
laptops with pair sharing between 2 kids. Each group will be assigned one of the 4 topics
to review. One student will navigate the Webquest with the other student filling out
details found on a sheet of paper. The website to be used for this webquest is:
http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/colonial/ or use this tiny URL:
http://tinyurl.com/ykopfb9

Kids will be directed to the website with the Introduction and Task read out loud together
to frontload the work to be done. Kids will then begin to work on the Process portion of
the webquest. Each table will create a detailed understanding of their topic and fill in
Each of the 4 topics has multiple websites for review so each group will need to decide
who reviews what to ensure minimal redundancy. Kids will add to a Word Wall any new
(to them) terms they have learned.

Assessment: Anecdotal observation. Are kids working together, are all kids
contributing. Note taking is critical here.

Closure: Each table will be asked how they are proceeding with a determination made as
to their progress. This research might take another day so the next lesson plan will
assume closure of data gathering. Homework will be kids finding / making props on their
pics as they will be giving oral report presentation to the class on what they have learned.