LESSON PLAN

Co-Teaching Lesson Plan (Direct Instruction)

Teachers: Kendra Quinton

Subject: Social Studies

Standard:
PO 1. Describe the economic development of Arizona: a. mining b. ranching c. farming and dam
PO 2. Describe the advent of innovations in transportation (e.g., steamboats, freighting, stagecoaches, railroads) that helped Arizonas growth and economy.

Objective (Explicit):
Students will be able to accurately describe the economic development of Arizona five cs
I can describe Arizonas five Cs and their importance to Arizona
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
Students will be master this lesson by explaining the 5 cs
Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):
Students will learn about Arizona state symbol, flag, flower and state bird (Tuesday)
After knowning this information the students will learn about the 5 cs that are important to Arizona
Students will work in on a specific C that is given to them.

Key vocabulary: Cotton, Copper, Cattle, Citrus, Climate

Materials: Smart board, Arizona books, Pencils,

highlighters , Any form of technology

Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
Yesterday we learned about Arizona state symbols, the flag flower, and state bird. Today we are going to describe Arizonas five
cs and why they picked these be important to Arizona.

Instruc Teacher Will:

Student Will:
tional
Input Start by asking students if they remember the five cs that Give the 5 Cs to the teacher by answering
Mrs. Spetrini stated before
Climate
Okay 4th grade does anyone remember the 5 Cs that Mrs.
Copper
Spetrini stated a couple days ago ?
After students give me the five cs I will start giving
information on the five cs by a power point

Citrus

Show each slide

and

Each slide will have important information on Arizona 5 cs

Cattle

Cotton

Expect students to remember this information, so I will ask Listen when the teacher is giving information on the 5 Cs
them to write these important facts on a sheet that I provide that they stated earlier
( part of their AZ packet)
Write down the important facts on their worksheets
Ask if any of them have questions on the 5 Cs presented to
them
If students have any questions, they can ask the teacher
and her or Mrs. Spetrini will answer

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation
Lower students will have a worksheet that has the pictures and the five cs provided to them.

Guide Teacher Will:

d
Practic Than introduce what we are going to do with all this
information that we just learned
e

Student Will:
Get one of the Cs

Begin to plan their drawing, writing and abbreviations

Okay class now that we learned the five cs we are going to
Listen to directions carefully by teacher
take this information and make postcard
Everyone is going to get a C and have to work on a
picture,description and a minimum of 3 abbreviations

Say back to teacher what is expected of them when

working on their independent work

describe the expectations of this project by showing an

example
Tell students they will need to write a description on the
back like the example I will show
draw the symbol of their C
Tell students they will need to have 3 abbreviations

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation
Reteach- Students that arent understanding what is going on, will be taught again about the 5 cs and the information
that was presented to them earlier

Indepe Teacher Will:

ndent
Practic Now that you know all that is expected of this assignment
lets get started on your project
e
We will present this assignment when everyone has finished
Will help students, while walking around the room

Student Will:
start to work on their C
Ask any questions they have throughout this assignment
Present their work with the class
Discuss everyones postcard about their C

Discuss students work

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation

Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:

During our lesson we learned how the 5 Cs are important to Arizona. We did this by listening to information and making a
postcard with the symbol and discription. Why do you think we learned this? Why did we need to know the imporatance of the 5
cs to Arizona?