Victoria Gomez
Casie Prodoehl
Victoria Stagg
Liz York
ISTC 301
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Practical Teaching Experience Lesson Plan
TOPIC and GRADE LEVEL: We will focus on a history lesson on the
American Revolution that is targeted at 5th grade students. Our topic will
focus on the British colonial policy and the characteristics of loyalists and
patriots.
CONTENT AREA STANDARDS
○ Topic C: Conflict Between Ideas and Institutions
○ Indicator 1: Analyze the causes of the American Revolution
○ Objective A: Examine the viewpoints of Patriots and Loyalists
regarding British colonial policy after the Seven Years’ War.
TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS
○ Standard 1- Students will be provided with multiple websites and
asked to find information for their debate from these websites.
○ Standard 2- Students will be given the opportunity to collaborate in
order to determine the differences between Patriots and Loyalists.
○ Standard 4- Students will be assessed through an Activity Inspire
Activity where they have to decide what differentiates Patriots and
Loyalists.
○ Standard 5- This lesson includes finding educational articles and using
the Smartboard.
InTASC STANDARDs
○ Standard 1- The teachers have knowledge of events leading up to the
American Revolutions.
○ Standard 3/4- The teachers know that their students learn differently,
so they have a variety of instructional methods to facilitate their
learning.
○ Standard 5- The students will be working in groups and encouraged to
actively participate in class activities.
○ Standard 6- There is class discussion, readings, and group work
involved in this lesson.
○ Standard 7- This lesson is planned based on students’ prior knowledge
of the topic.
○ Standard 8- The warm-up, discussion, and debate are informal
assessments. The Activity Inspire Activity is a formal assessment.
● Objective
○ Students will understand the difference in the characteristics between
Patriots and Loyalists.
● PROCEDURES
○ We will begin by reviewing what we learned in our last class. We will
talk about taxes and acts imposed on the colonists by the British. We
will hand out a warm-up sheet and ask our students to fill it out and
then will go over these sheets as a class. This will take five minutes.
○ Students will be divided into two groups. One group will be Loyalists
and the other will be Patriots. Students will research as a group in
order to prepare for a Patriots vs. Loyalist debate.
○ We will provide students with websites they can access in order to
read about characteristics of Patriots and Loyalists. Students will use
this to better their understanding about the two groups in order to
prepare for the debate. They will have five minutes to research.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/11b.asp
http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/eliot/technology/lessons/am_rev_bio/loy_p
at_argue.pdf
http://www.ducksters.com/history/american_revolution/patriots_and_loyalist
s.php
○ We will guide the debate using the following three questions:
■ Loyalists: Why do you want to remain under King George’s
rule?
■ Patriots: Why do you disagree with the Loyalists?
■ Loyalists: How do you feel about the acts imposed on the
colonists?
■ Patriots: How do you feel about the acts imposed on the
colonists?
○ The students will collaborate in order to decide which characteristics
are associated with Patriots and which are associated with Loyalists.
They will drag these characteristics under either the Patriot category
or the Loyalist category.
● ASSESSMENT
○ We will use many different types of formative and summative
assessments throughout our implementation of our lesson.
○ Our first formative assessment will assess what our students already
know. This will be completed on our warm-up sheet and through our
discussion of the warm-up.
○ The debate that we foster will be another formative assessment.
Students will show us what knowledge they have on patriots and
loyalists by having a lively discussion on the characteristics and
thought processes of each.
○ Our last assessment will be our summative assessment. We have
created a smart-board activity and will ask students to come forward
and divide the characteristics of loyalists and patriots into 2 seperate
charts. This will show our students summative knowledge on the
difference of patriots and loyalists.
● DIFFERENTIATION○ Warm-up- those who enjoy writing, those who enjoy working by
themselves, helps students answer in an organized manner
○ Going over the warm-up- allows us to go over the information with
the class and make sure that everyone is on the same page and is
focused
○ Debate- work in groups, those who like talking to the class
○ Smartboard activity- allows students to get up from their seats and
move around.