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**Microteaching Lesson Plan**

TCH 347 Social Studies Methods

A Simplified Example:


 * Group Microteaching Lesson Plan **


 * Aligned with PASS Lesson Model and Integrated with Technology **


 * 1. Lesson Info **
 * **Members: ** Han Liu, Ashely Turner, Jessica Mooney
 * **Coordinator: ** Han Liu
 * **Lesson Topic:** Natural Disasters and Our Responses
 * **Subject Area:** Geography
 * **Grade Level:** 4-6
 * **Time:** One week


 * 2. Pennsylvania Standards: **
 * **7.2.3.B: ** Identify the basic physical processes that affect the physical characteristics o f **places** and **regions.**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**7.4.5.A:** Describe and explain the effects of the **physical systems** on people within **regions.**


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. NCSS Standards **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">People, Places, and Environment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Science, Technology, and Society
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Power, Authority, and Governance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Global Connections
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Civic Ideals and Practices

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">What are natural disasters and how natural disasters happen? How should we respond to various natural disasters to protect life and property?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Essential Questions **


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Learning Objectives **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">After this unit, students will **understand** the eight natural disasters (Earthquake, volcano, tsunami, hurricane, tornado, tropical storm, flood, wildfire), and how these natural disasters affect their lives and the environment at home, in the community, or in a bigger geographical region.
 * 2) Students will learn the knowledge and skills that are necessary to help them proactively respond to natural disasters.
 * 3) Students will create projects to demonstrate how human beings effectively fight against natural disasters in different historical periods.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Concepts and Vocabulary: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Earthquake, volcano, tsunami, hurricane, tornado, tropical storm, flood, wildfire

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children’s book: The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, by Laurence Yep; Earthquake for Kids: [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Photos of Hurricane Katrina: []
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Materials **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Other <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Historical or current news sources or pictures showing damages done to people or properties by natural disasters

__**//<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Day One //**__
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. Instruction Activity **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ask students <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">--What is a natural disaster? Let students tell different stories based on their own life experience or their family members’ experiences about different kinds of natural disasters. <Make SS Meaningful> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Taking notes of what they responded to the above three questions, especially write down the names of disasters kids mentioned.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Warm Up Activity //**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Video: [|Images Earthquake Rocks Haiti] [|Volcanic Eruption] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Hurricane Katrina Part Two] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Mississippi River Flood 1993] __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Japan Tsunami] __ __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Tuscaloosa Tornado 2011] __
 * //<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Engaging <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> learner with technology //**

__**//<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Day Two //**__

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">--How does it happen? Or what caused natural disasters? <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><Make SS Challenging> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">e.g. Who can tell what caused tropical storm? What about tsunami?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ask students: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a question for higher order thinking. They need to under the casual relations between a natural disaster and the factors that cause it. This learning objective is prepared for higher grades 5-6. Lower grades will ignore this part.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the engaging method is to have students conduct a research on the Internet to find out the major factors that caused various natural disasters.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**// Teaching content with technology//** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will learn the natural disaster by visiting the website prepared by FEMA

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gateway: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|FEMA for Kids]

//**__Day Three__**//

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Ask Students:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">--What should you do when a natural disaster is coming? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Discuss on how people should respond to a natural disaster when it comes. People should keep getting the latest information about the event by watching TV, attending to telephone calls, and listening to the radio. At the same time, people should prepare resources for survival, such as flashlight, food, water, tent, etc. and get ready for evacuation. Most importantly, people should help each other, especially help the weak and elderly, fully exercise responsible citizenship at a critical moment. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"><Make SS Value-based>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Eight Disaster and Appropriate Responses to Them]
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teaching content with technology //**

-- How to Response to Natural Disasters <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Get Ready]
 * Ask Students:**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Given different scenarios of natural disasters, students will simulate or role play how to proactively response to different kinds of natural disasters to effectively protect life and property.
 * //__Day Four__//**


 * //__Day Five__//**

Assessment

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will play the games and do the quizzes within each instruction section in the FEMA website <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|FEMA for Kids] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a culminating assessment, students will take the <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|test here.]
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Assessment **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">For performance assessment, students will create a levy <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">to demonstrate how people effectively keep water damage during a river flood. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Make SS Active)

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will in groups conduct a research on an assigned natural disaster. They will identify a very famous one happened in the history of the world, describe the damages in terms property loss, human casualty, environment pollution, consequences to the economy, and global connections. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Make SS Integrated – Cross Curricula> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Describe the disaster’s impacts globally if any. Finally, draw a conclusion by making suggestions on how to be more proactively, effectively, and efficiently prepare for and respond to natural disasters, the common enemy of the human race.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Heather Kerkeslager use video to make up the lesson she missed.]