Intern Name: Kloe Jones

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): ‘China- A Love Story’ Powerpoint

Grade: 2nd
Length of Lesson: 15 minutes
Date Taught: April 26th
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…​ students will participate in a slideshow activity about ancient
Overview China.
Standards of SS.2.3.3: Describe the relationship between resources and the economic
activities of ancient China. (SOL 2.4, SOL 2.7)
Learning
What can you identify about ancient China throughout the slideshow?
Essential Questions
Students will be able to… ​understand how to answer certain questions about the
Objectives Chinese as it is presented throughout the slideshow.
I understand who the ancient Chinese were.
Learning Target I can show my knowledge about the Chinese if presented in a slideshow.
Necessary Prior ● ancient Chinese basic facts
● how to work in groups
Knowledge
● SmartBoard
● ‘China- A Love Story’ slideshow
Materials ● worksheets with questions
● pencils
- Explain to the students what were about to do and how they must listen
and contribute to the slideshow.
Introduction/Hook - Before I start, I ask the students what the title on the story was and what
they thought it would be about.
1. After asking the students what the title could mean, I told the students that I
would pause every now and then so they could work with partners to answer the
following questions on the worksheet.
2. I started reading and paused after the 1st question was shown in the
Instructional powerpoint.
Activities & 3. The students worked in partners to answer the question and then I asked for
Strategies someone to raise their hand and tell the rest of the class the answer.
4. I repeated this step 5 times until all of the questions on the worksheet was
answered.
5. As I got to the ending of the slideshow, I pointed out some interesting facts
that I knew about ancient China. The kids loved me sharing my knowledge.
Key Vocabulary or Students should know where China is located, the land in China, the important
river in China, three contributions from ancient China, and one amazing
Concepts structure the ancient Chinese built.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 Students will work on a worksheet throughout the lesson that asks specific
Assessments questions that they should already know. The slideshow is a just a review but it
challenges them.
The students will repeat the information that the learned in the slideshow back
to me. I also then will ask if the students have any other interesting information
Closure Activity about ancient China that they would like to share with the class. I would do that
just so they could think outside of the box about the ancient Chinese.
Read a little bit slower for some of the kids who can’t comprehend the
Accommodations information as fast.
Resources ‘China- A Love Story’ powerpoint shown on the SmartBoard

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Kloe Jones
Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): ‘China- A Love Story’ Slideshow
Date of Lesson Taught: April 26th
Cooperating Teacher & School: Shurgue Linkhorn Park
Grade: 2nd
Time of Day: 12 p.m.

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
Mrs. Shugrue and I planned this lesson together. She got the powerpoint for me and let me teach it to the class.
She told me everything that I needed to know before I taught this lesson to the class.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
The objectives were focused on resources and economic activities in China. The resources focused on natural
resources (water from the Huang He River, soil), human resources (people), and capital resources (tools). The
economic activities in China focused on farming.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

When I taught the lesson, I wasn’t sure if talking to partners would work but the students actually really
enjoyed talking to their partners. There was a lot of conversation which made the lesson more fun.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

I had to stop more than I thought I would just because of some of the accommodations for certain students.
This made the lesson just a little bit longer than I thought it would be.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

Everything went well but it just took me longer than I thought to get all of the students to sit down and start
listening before I started the lesson.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
I used the worksheet with the questions as my assessment. This worked well because it had spot on questions
that the students should know from learning about ancient China.

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
I think this lesson was a success because all the students seemed to know the information very well and also
had lots of fun while the lesson was being taught. The evidence I have that show this lesson was a success is the
amount of students raising their hand and answering the questions successfully.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to its success?
The time I spent really helped me remember when I needed to stop and ask the students the questions. Having
the powerpoint stop at certain points made sure that the students could retain the information at the correct
time.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
I think that I wouldn’t have the students raise their hands and answer the questions. I think that I would pick
their names out of a bucket and have the kids answer like that so there wouldn’t be the same kids answering
the questions every time.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

I think that my lesson couldn't have been any better just because how much the students in the class enjoyed
me teaching. I honestly think that whatever I thought they would love but this lesson was so good because they
all contributed so much and made me have fun.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)