Inquiry Based Lesson Plan

Teachers: Gloria Garza-Wells Subject: 8th Grade Social Studies

Standard: Concept 1: Research Skills for History

 PO 1. Construct charts, graphs, and narratives using historical data.

 PO 2. Interpret historical data displayed in graphs, tables, and charts.
 PO 3. Construct timelines (e.g. Key events, Civil Rights leaders)
 of the historical era being studied.
 PO 7. Analyze cause and effect relationships between and among individuals and/or historical
events.

Objective (Explicit):

 Students will be able to interpret a civil rights leader from Civil Rights Movement
 Create a profile that accurately demonstrates the character and personality of Civil Rights Leader
 Evaluate the social, political, religious, intellectual, political significance of Civil Rights Leader
 Students will be able to explain the importance of the person and/or event
 Analyze and evaluate primary sources.

Evidence of Mastery (Measurable): Evaluation will consist of my observations. I will be able to see if students are
thinking critically and creating their own concept of the Civil Rights Leader. I will also be evaluating the students’
historical thinking through their Feeling journals. Finally, a rubric will be used to help assess Students Mastery

Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

 SWBAT analyze the factors that contributed to the Civil Rights Movement during the late 20th
and early 21st centuries.
Key vocabulary: Materials/Technology Resources to be used:

 NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of  Computer

Colored People  Internet
 Twenty-fourth Amendment: Ratified by the states on
January 23, 1964, this amendment prohibits congress
and states from using any method to keep someone from
voting based on ethnicity.
 Voting Rights Act of 1965: A law designed to help end
formal and informal barriers to African American
suffrage.
 Civil Rights Act of 1964: This act made racial, religious,
and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the
government the power to enforce all laws governing civil
rights, including desegregation of schools and public
places.
 Sit-in: Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and
refuses to leave.
 Boycott: A group's refusal to have commercial dealings
with some organization in protest against its policies
 Freedom : rode in interstate buses into the segregated
southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated
public place.
Engage (Make content and learning relevant to real life and connect to student interest)

Ask students how social media impacts a person’s personal profile

Ask what it would be like if Social Media websites were around during the time of the civil rights movement.

Teacher Will: Student Will:

 Show examples of Social Media •Create characters to gather data in individual and
Profiles of important people in current group settings.
times
Explore

 Ask students what makes a good profile •Examine improvisational skills and techniques in
and have them discuss creating missing information on a character.

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation

Explore the different resources available.

Teacher Will: Student Will:

 Ask students what they want in a leader  Students will create profile
 Ask for justification on their thoughts representing their Civil rights leader
Explain

 Allow students time to discuss in their  Students will create posts on important
groups facts of the leader
Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation

Teacher Will: Student Will:

 Ask Students if there is a similar  Students will be assessed by discussing

person to their leader in History their civil rights leader
Elaborate

 Enforced Vocabulary when discussing  Students will be asked to identify facts

the leader and events of the time. of their leader
 Identify Strengths of their leader
Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation

Evaluate

• Ask a student to represent a Civil Rights Leader

• Rubric will be used assessing their FAKEBOOK profile
• Assess the students based on their participation in a discussion about the impact of their
civil rights leader