1. Topic-
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| Abolition of slavery in the United States |
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2. Content-
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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The student is expected to: create an avatar that will represent
them as on of the slaves.
Students will be able to design a specific slavery outfit for himself.
Students will be able to go to the museum and explore history about
slavery.
Students will be able to react the situations of the past slaves. |
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4. Objectives-
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After the Students have created their avatar, the will be able to
create their own community, interact with each other, and be able
to experience a period of history as when they are happening with
virtual world.
They will be able to interact to each other about situations they
encounter as slaves. |
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5. Materials and Aids-
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| Computers, Internet access, mission US, headphones, smart board,
and notebooks, |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
She will introduce the topic of the lesson.
Explain to the Students how to create their own avatar.
They will find retail stores where they can purchase absolutely anything,
they could use Linden dollar to buy things that they would find in
the real world for their community.
Students can exercise their creativity and open stores where they
sell clothing they have designed or other unique items.
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B. Development-
| The teacher will divide the class in groups and ask them to shear
their experiences. |
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C. Practice-
| The teacher will then allow the Students to go on a vocabulary hunt
in the library to look for new words in relation to slavery ex Amistad.
This will build up their vocabulary and give them the opportunity
of being in a virtual library as if it was real. |
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D. Independent Practice-
| the Students will be able to shop fro the things that they need
from the store. They will be able to communicate to each other to
solve their problems. |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
| Instead of reading from the history book, Students will have the
opportunity to go to the virtual library and read any book that they
want. |
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F. Checking for understanding-
| by creating their own avatar, Students will have the opportunity
to be in the real world setting while in their classroom. |
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G. Closure-
| As the Students finish up their role play experience, the teacher
will bring them back together for another discussion. This time, instead
of asking about their encounter separately, she will ask the Students
to shear their comments together. The teacher will then ask questions
about slavery and new words of the day. |
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7. Evaluation-
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| As the Students work, the teacher will have a notepad and simply
take notes while walking around on how they are doing. The teacher
will join the groups and create his own avatar to become one of the
Students this will give him the knowledge of how and what they are
doing. Closure of the lesson is also an assessment to see if the Students
can generalize the knowledge into the real life. The lesson is set
up to be an ongoing assessment based on observations as the children
work. Another, more formal assessment, would be for the Students to
meet one on one with the teacher and do a project together. Ex: the
teacher would have them in two groups one will be the slaves and the
other group not and they will alternate after each session. |
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8. Teacher Reflection-
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| the teacher will regroup the Students to allow the once that needs
help to benefit by assign a leader to work with the Students that
need help. The special Students will be given extra time and extra
help. |
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