INQUIRY (5E) LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Teachers: Subject: Grade:

Justin Rygiel, William Shropshire Social Studies 8th
Common Core State Standards:
 8.c3.3, 8.c2.1, 8.c1.2
Objective (Explicit):
 Students will work on multi day project by creating their own country, develop their country’s laws
and civilian rights.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
 Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
 Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
 Assign value to each portion of the response

1. Students will create their own Bill of Rights for their country, this is demonstrating their
understanding of civilian rights and government laws.
Sub-Objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex)
 How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
 What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
 How is this objective relative to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

Key vocabulary: Bill of Rights, Amendments, Materials:

Constitution, Democracy, civilian rights. Pencils, poster board, markers, colored pencils,
highlighters, glue sticks, Chromebook, web
resources.
Engage
 How will you activate prior knowledge?
 How will you hook student attention?
 What question will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
1. SDR (bell work) was a review from the previous day curriculum. 1. Students answered SDR questions on
2. I facilitated the SDR
Chromebook.
2. Students gave feedback when we went
through the SDR questions together.
Explore
 How will you model your performance expectations? (Remember you are not modeling what you want students to discover but need to
model expected behavior or required procedures.)
 How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer the question posed in the
Engage?
 What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are “exploring”?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
1. I circulated the classroom when the students 1. Students worked on group project
were working on their group projects, using 2. Students created their own flag for their
proximity to ensure the students stayed on country
task.
2. Answered questions regarding group project
Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?
 I circulated the room and help guide students in completing their project.
 Mr. Shropshire also circulated the room answering students’ questions.
Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 I would take the students who had a hard time staying on task, back to the pod to help them
focus on their group project.
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
 I will ask those students to help other students who are struggling to finish their project.
Explain
 How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
 How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
 How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by answering the question from the
Engage before moving on?
Teacher Will: Students Will:
1. Help students stay engaged in the project 1. Have the opportunity to ask questions in
order to complete the group project.
Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Elaborate
 How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a particular aspect of this
learning at a deep level?
 How will students use higher order thinking at this stage (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a What If? Question)?
 How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Evaluate
 How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the elaborate content)?
 How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the assessment)?

Teacher Will: Students Will: