PROJECT: LESSON PLAN FOR PROFESSOR

Grade: 4
Type of ESL class: Self-contained
Number of ELLs: 16
ESL levels: Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced

Topic/content area: Colonial America/Social Studies

Aim and lesson focus
1. Students will analyze how life in colonial America compares to life today.
2. Students will select information from various written sources and organize it for a written presentation.
3. Students will apply their knowledge of computers and Web sites to design a Web page.

Social Studies standard
1: History of the United States and New York

ESL standards
1. Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information and understanding.
3. Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for critical analysis and evaluation.
4. Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for classroom and social interaction.

ISTE standards
1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
2. Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
3. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

Instructional materials/resources
5 computers
Internet access
Students' Social Studies notebooks
Pencils
LCD projector
Printer

Motivation: The class has been studying colonial America for the past week.

Procedure:
Day One:

• In the regular classroom, the teacher will introduce the WebQuest and will divide the class into four teams of four.
• The class will go to the computer lab and each team will sit at a computer.
• The teacher will instruct the class to begin looking at the WebQuest.
• Once the students have gotten to the "Process" section of the WebQuest, the teachers will assign a different identity (student, slave, militiaman, teacher) to each of the teams.
• The students will begin researching their character using the Web sites in the WebQuest.
• The students will take notes in their notebooks.
• The teacher will circulate, checking progress and scaffolding.

Day Two:

• The class will return to the computer lab and each team will sit at a computer.
• Each team will print a question sheet that's embedded in the WebQuest (for illustration purposes, I included a sample question sheet for the student character only. The other question sheets for the other characters are just copies).
• The teacher will instruct the class to follow the directions in the WebQuest, which explains how to complete the question sheet. She'll remind students to refer to the notes they took the previous day.
• The students will write the answers to their questions in their notebooks. Then they'll peer edit one another's answers.
• The teacher will explain the students' project: creating a Web page. She'll demonstrate on the LCD projector how the students can create the Web page.
• The teams will design their Web pages, using instructions found in the WebQuest.

Day Three:

• The class will return to the computer lab, where the teams will complete their Web pages.
• Then the teams will read one anothers' Web pages on the computer.
• Each team will add a comment to their classmates' Web pages listing two things they learned from each Web page.

Assessment: The students will use this rubric, which appears in the WebQuest: http://classconnect.blogspot.com/2008/08/evaluation.html