Name: Brian Dawson
Content Area: Business Law
Woodland Hills High School
Lesson Plans
Date: 8/25/2014 - 8/29/2014
Lesson Topic (Standard/Anchor):
NBEA- Business Law I --Basics of Law
Choose a National Standard:
Stage I – Desired Results
Big Ideas: Class Rules, Class Syllabus,,
5.1.C.A Analyze the purposes functions
law Journal Entries, WHHS
Internetof
Safety,
Choose a PA Standard:
Internet Policy, Student Questionaire
Choose a PA Standard:
Student Objectives (Competencies/Outcomes):
Students will be able to:
make journal entries in Microsoft Word as their warm-up
activity
Create an electronic folder, save and retrieve files
Take guided notes as a summary of class concepts
Edit a document in Microsoft Word
Essential Questions: What are the class
rules?
Length of Lesson: 5 days
Understanding Goals (Concepts):
Journal entries as warm-up activity
WHHS Internet Policy understanding
Editing a doucument in Microsoft Word
Saving appropriately & Retrieving files
Vocabulary: Literacy Week 1 Vocab
Editing, Saving, Folder, Student Questionaire,
Download, Internet Safety
What does "Internet Safety mean?
What is the WHHS Internet Policy and why
is it important?
Stage II – Assessment Evidence
Performance Task: Guided Notes, Using the computer as a learning resource, Keyboarding Practice, Editing a document in
Microsoft Word
Other Evidence: teacher
observations
Stage III – Learning Plan
Materials & Resources: Computers, MicroType software, Syllabus, Parent Letter
Formative Assessment(s):
#4. Student Monitoring
#5. Graphic Organizers
#6. Peer Tutoring
#1. Pre-Assessment
#2. Summarizing Key Concepts
#3. Summarizing New Skills
CONTENT AREA READING: Hightlight important steps or key terms
Instructional Procedures*: (includes mini-lessons) Lecture / Guided Notes
Active Engagements used:
#1. Note-Taking
#2. Graphic Organizers
Others: Using
the computer, software and
internet as learning resources
Scaffolding used:
#1. Guided Notes
#2 . Build Vocabulary
Others: Build
on prior knowledge
Describe usage:
Procedures
Describe usage:
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Monday
Discuss "Class Rules" PPT
Discuss class syllabus
Demo and help students
create electronic folders
for saving class work
Demo how to download
files from my teacher
Tuesday
 Demo how to download
files from my teacher
website
 Discuss "WHHS Internet
Policy" PPT as students fill
in guided notes as
summary
Wednesday
 Warm-Up: Create
"Journal" word doc.
and give students first
word to look up and
enter in their journal
 Distribute and discuss
"Parent Letter" to be
Thursday
 Warm-Up: Open Journal and
make 2nd vocab entry
 Instruct students to retrieve
"Student Questionaire" doc.
and continue work filling it
out and saving in Business
Law folder
Friday
 Warm-Up: Open Journal and
make 3rd vocab entry
 Instruct students to retrieve
"Student Questionaire" doc.
and continue work filling it
out and saving in folder
 Instruct students how to
website
 Show "Internet Safety"
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video as students fill in
guided notes as summary
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signed and returned
for credit
 Discuss "Student
Questionaire word
doc. assignment
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 Demo how to
download files from
my teacher website
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Assignments
 Listen about "Class Rules"
 Create electronic folder
for saving class work
 Watch demo about how
to download files from
Mr. Dawson's website
 Download "WHHS Internet
Policy" from teacher
website
 Take Guided Notes on
WHHS Network Policy
 Watch "Internet Safety"
video and fill in guided
notes
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 Complete Warm-Up
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 Download and save
"Student
Questionaire" from
teacher website and
begin to fill out and
save in Business Law
folder
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I updated my teacher website.
 Instruct students how to
submit "Student
Questionaire" appropriately
on my teacher website
 Demo freetypinggame.com
as an internet resource to
help build keyboarding skill
 Assess effort and skill using
the keyboard
submit "Student
Questionaire" appropriately
to my teacher website
 Demo freetypinggame.com
as an internet resource to
help build keyboarding skill
 Assess effort and skill using
the keyboard
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 Complete Warm-Up
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 Electronically retrieve
 Complete Warm-Up
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"Student Questionaire" doc.
and continue work filling it
out and saving in folder
 Submit to Mr. Dawson's
teacher website
 Work on keyboarding skills
using the internet as a
resource
I updated my grades on edline.
 Electronically retrieve
"Student Questionaire" doc.
and continue work filling it
out and saving in Business
Law folder
 Submit to Mr. Dawson's
teacher website
 Turn in "Parent Letter" for
credit
 Work on keyboarding skills
using the internet as a
resource
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