Daily Lesson Plan Template

Blythewood High School Carly Rogers

School Your Name:
3/16/17 United States Government
Date: Course:
44 minutes 12th grade
Length of Class: Grade Level(s):
Number of 1st: 26 # of Adults 2: Mr. Johnson and Ms. Rogers
Students: 2nd: 23 in
Classroom:
6th: 29
7th: 22
8th: 6

Unit Topic/Title: Powers of the President (Part Two)

Rationale/ This is relevant because students should know the powers of the president, as well
Purpose for as the checks and balances within the federal government.
Lesson:

Learning Students will be able to analyze the requirements to be Presidents.

Outcomes: Students will be able to discuss the different domestic and foreign powers that the
President has.
Students will be able to create different products in order to demonstrate what
they have learned about the Presidency so far.
Content Standards USG-3.2: Evaluate the formal and informal structure, role, responsibilities, and
Addressed authority of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the national
government as the embodiments of constitutional principles.

Items to Display as Agenda: (Activities)

1. Finish Powers of the President
2. Tic-Tac-Toe

Materials Chrome books, paper, Google Classroom, Smartboard and PowerPoint.

Required:
In the usual arrangement of desks in pairs, in rows, facing the Smartboard.
Classroom
Geography:

Approximately what percentage of the time are students do each of the following? (Should = 100%)

% Independent reading % Partner work % {Add your own}

100% Independent writing % Group work % {Add your own}

 Direct Instruction by
% teacher % {Add your own } % {Add your own}
Engaging in whole
% group discussion % {Add your own} % {Add your own}

Lesson Sequence
Estimated Detailed Description of Teaching and Learning
Time Needed (Include language to identify instructional goals activate prior
knowledge, engage, model, investigate, apply, review, closure, etc.)

Unknown Finish Powers of the President: If the PowerPoint from the previous day was not
finished, start where we left off.
Rest of Period Tic-Tac-Toe: Students will look at the board I posted on Google Classroom.
Students need to choose three assignments that would make a line (three across,
down, or diagonal).
 Homework for Tomorrow
Tic-Tac-Toe assignment if it was not finished in class.

Assessments
The Tic-Tac-Toe assignment will be used as a formative assessment in order to check for the
understanding of what has been taught about the Presidency so far.

Adaptations/Extensions
I could modify my lesson for a range of diverse learners by having students create their own
activities for the tic-tac-toe board and then letting them choose from those.

Notes / Reflections
What worked? What didnt work? How will or did you follow-up? What did you learn about
your teaching from this lesson? What did you learn about your students that will inform your
teaching in subsequent lessons? What changes will you make to the lesson when you teach it
again?

This will be completed after the lesson.

What Comments Did Others in the Room Make? (Optional)

(If your coaching teacher mentor, teaching partner, or university supervisor observed this lesson,
what comments did these adults make about the lesson and your instruction that you want to
consider?)

This will be completed after the lesson.