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Design Your Own Lesson

As you design your lesson, please consider the level of detail: Could another teacher actually use this lesson to teach your class? Please check Lesson Plan 22 as an example of a high quality lesson.

  1. What is the subject area for your lesson?

  2. What is the grade level for your lesson?

  3. Which standards does your lesson address?

  4. What are your learning objectives?

    Write a short paragraph here to introduce the activity to your students. Include the learning objectives, based on the related standards you selected.

  5. How will you design your students' activities?

    Describe the task: a series of questions to be answered, a summary to be created, a problem to be solved, a position to be defended, creative work, or other end results of the learners' activities. List the steps your students will go through as they accomplish this task. How do you want them to organize the information they gather?

  6. What Internet resources will you use to implement your lesson?

    Use this space to point to Web or Internet resources that will be available for your students to accomplish the task. Be sure to annotate your links so your students will know in advance what they're clicking on.

  7. How will you assess your students' products or performances?

    What performance standards will you use? You can link to a separate rubric document from here, or you could briefly summarize your criteria on this page. Will you evaluate students individually, or evaluate the group as a whole?

  8. How will you evaluate the effectiveness of your lesson?

    As you reflect on your lesson, how can you improve it? How can you use feedback from this lesson to improve your own teaching practice?

  9. What is your name?

  10. What is the name of your school?

  11. What is your city, district, or ISD?

  12. Which state is your school in?

    13. Please print this page (ctrl+p) and use it as your guideline.

    Be sure to click "submit" when you're finished.

    In case you have difficulty submitting the form, please e-mail the information for your lesson to the Webmaster.

    Thanks for your contribution!

     

    Design Your Own Lesson
    Updated August 25, 2005
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