Lesson II: Phase 1 Overview

OVERVIEW

Grade Level: 3rd

Subject: Social Studies

Topic of Study: Timeline of different governments systems from different countries 

Time Allotment: 60 minutes

Standards:
      AZ Social Studies Standards: 

• Strand 2: World History Concept 1: Research Skills for History PO.1 Use timelines to identify the time sequence of historical data.

      Common Core: 

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5
  Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7
  Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.8
  Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

Objectives:

• Student will be able to pick and conduct research on a different countries form of government.
• Students will create a timeline based on the the research they have conducted to show the progression of a certain government.

Reflect on...

Assessing Prior Knowledge:

• Prior knowledge that the students will have is an idea of what chronological order is (I will go more into depth with this project).  They will also know about different countries around the world to pick from.  They will also have a understanding of different government systems that we have been learning about, but this will be their first research project on it on the topic.
• I will assess their prior knowledge during the discussion that we have in the beginning of the lesson.  If the students seem unclear about any of the topics I ask about, we will have a further discussion.
• I will use this information in the planning process because if I feel that the students are unclear on a certain topic (like different countries to pick from), I will review different countries they can research and what they need to be researching.

Planning Instruction: 

• This content should be taught at this grade level because in third grade, students are utilizing informational texts to pick out the key information and create a product showing those details.
• The objectives align with the standards because they are picking a country to research to find out more about their government system and then creating a timeline about the important events.
• This lesson will be taught more towards the middle of the school year after we have discussed different countries and their government systems.