2. Analyze the learner
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21 students
11 girls
10 boys
4th grade
60% Caucasion 20% African-American 20%Hispanic
5 students have ADHD
3. Main Objective
• Students will identify the 43 United States presidents. All students will
develop a better understanding of presidents. Along with teaching the
children the presidents names, they will learn the important jobs of a
president. Students will have time to use the computer lab, along with
the class iPad, to research each presidents. The teacher will monitor
the students by walking around class to observe students work and to
answer questions. Students will have one hour from Monday to
Thursday to complete accurate research. Students will pick a president
that interest them. They will work on an assignment that includes
making a poster-board of the presidents they chose. Name, age, time
frame of presidency, historical facts and a fun fact are required for
poster-board.
4. Day by day breakdown
• Monday- Students will be introduced with U.S Presidents. A video with a song and pictures will play on
the smart board. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsePr32vOxA ) Teacher will talk about first 10
presidents. Students will demonstrate prior knowledge by breaking up into partners to discuss what
they know about presidents. Class will then go to computer lab to do further research. They will also
choose a president for their assignment. Each student will have their picture taken for an assignment
on Tuesday.
• Tuesday- Students will bring poster boards to class. Teacher will teach about 10 more presidents
Students will be given a fun worksheet. Worksheet will have their picture on a presidents body. The
worksheet will consist of fun questions that ask “What would you do if you were president” and
“Where would you travel”..etc. Once students finish they will staple paper on the president bulletin
board. Students will go to computer lab to continue research.
• Wednesday- Teacher will teach about 10 more presidents. Class will go to computer lab and watch youtube videos about their president for 35 minutes. Students will have 15 minutes to work on posterboard.
• Thursday- Teacher will teach about the 13 last presidents. Students will stand in a circle and a beach
ball will be passed from student to student. When a student has the ball they must give a presidents
name. When all 43 presidents have been named they can go to the computer lab for 10 minutes for any
research they need. Then remainder time students will work on poster boards.
• Friday- Students will have 5 minutes to make changes to poster-board, then they will set up posterboards. The class, along with the teacher, will walk to each poster-board for a presentation. Students
will be graded on accurate information and quality.
