Lesson+Plan

Use the ASSURE Model as your guide for your lesson unit.

//In this lesson it will be a 2nd grade Geography Lesson.// SS.2.G.1.1: Use different types of maps (political, physical, and thematic) to identify map elements. SS.2.G.1.2: Using maps and globes, locate the student’s hometown, Florida, and North America, and locate the state capital and the national capital. SS.2.G.1.3: Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole. SS.2.G.1.4: Use a map to locate the countries in North America (Canada, United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands).
 * Analyze your learners: **

- Given a beach ball, students will draw the continents on it as they would on a globe with 75% accuracy. - Given reliable websites about the countries, students will pick a country and make a kidspiration about their country and present it to the class.

**Materials:**
Internet Computers Beach balls Markers Kidspiration program Globe

Require Learner participation
I want the students to explore and experience for themselves the world. A lot of the lessons this week are allowing the students to learn by researching themselves and experiencing it.

By creating the globe as they learn the continents, students will get a better understanding of what the continents look like and where they are located. Watching the videos will allow them to picture what it is like to live there and give them some experience of what it looks like.

By researching, creating a project, and then presenting the project to the class, they will learn alot more information about their country. By working with the material over many different tasks, the information should be understood by all types of learners in my classroom.

Students will be evaluated on the globes they created. Each continent has to look generally like what it looks like on a map. They also need to be generally in the correct location. I will also be looking for correct labeling of the Continents and Oceans.

For their Country Project, I will be grading them on their research, Kidspiration creation, as well as their presentation to the class. I will be looking for general understanding and comprehension of what they found. Also, I will be looking that all important facts are included in their creation and presentation. I basically want to make sure that each student understands what they are suppose to be doing and what information they are finding when they research. When they relay it to the other students, I will be looking for clear explanations and correct information from them.