Backward Design Lesson Plan
Teacher
Wen zhao Wang
Grade level 9th,10th, 11th
Time: 50 minutes
Lesson title
Chinese Zodiac Animals
Step 1—Desired Results
Standard Outcomes for Learning (ACTFL Standard 1.1)—Answer’s the question, what should
students know, understand, and be able to do as a result of the lesson?
Students are able to tell basic vocabularies of the 12 animals in Chinese ( mouse, ox, tiger,
rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig) (老鼠，牛，虎，兔，龙，
蛇，马，羊，猴，鸡，狗，猪)
Students are able to ask each other what’s your Chinese zodiac animal is.（---你属什么？-我属。。。——
Step 2—Assessment Evidence
Performance task—What will students do to show what they have learned?
1. Warming-up: show students a short video about the story of Chinese zodiac animals.
And ask students questions: how many animals are mentioned? What are those
animals?
2. Pronunciation drill and practice: show students animals slide by slide. And correct their
pronunciation.
3. Fly Swatter Game: divide students into two groups and let students hit the picture of the
animal said in Chinese Once Only! The winner can get stickers.
4. Image Finding: give each student a bag of animal images and they have to show the pin
yin side of the picture during the first round. During the second round, students are
required to show image side as fast as possible.
5. Match Images with correct pin yin.
6. Dialogue practice
Step 3—Learning Plan
Learning activities - Answer’s the question, how do I teach it?
Step 1. Warming-up: show students a short video about the story of Chinese zodiac animals.
And ask students questions: how many animals are mentioned? What are those animals?
Step 2. Pronunciation Drill: show students picture with pin yin first and encourage students
to read it aloud.
Step 3. Fly Swatter Game: divide students into two groups and let students hit the picture of
the animal said in Chinese Once Only! The winning group can get stickers.
Step 4. Image Finding: give each student a bag of animal images and they have to show the
pin yin side of the picture during the first round. During the second round, students are
required to show image side as fast as possible.
Step 5. Match Images with correct pin yin.
Step 6. give students the handout about the explanation of what their Chinese zodiac animal
is. And let’s try the dialogue: what’s your Chinese Zodiac animal is?
Step 4—Reflection
What happened during my lesson? What did my students learn? How do I know?
What did I learn? How will I improve my lesson next time?
Students are doing a good job by playing the fly swatter game because they remember the
animals’ names very fast and they are interested to know about what their zodiac animal is.
I should give students more time to memorize the pin yin.
Adapted from Tomlinson and McTighe, Integrating Differentiated Instruction + Understanding by Design, ASCD,