Grand Rapids University Prep Academy

7th Grade
World History
9-20-16
Standard

District Curriculum Guidelines

Objective

H1.2.1 Explain how historians use a variety of sources

to explore the past (e.g., artifacts, primary and
secondary sources including narratives, technology,
historical maps, visual/mathematical quantitative
data, radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis).
I can make inferences about the people of the past by
examining cave paintings left behind from prehistoric
times.
Students have been placed into groups based on their
behavioral issues and academic abilities. This will
help students stay on task.

Lesson
Management:
Focus and
Organization
Introduction:
Creating
Excitement
and Focus for
the Lesson
Target

Input: Setting
up the Lesson
for Student
Success

When students walk in they will complete their

Problem of the Day (POD). On this POD students will
answer the following question: What important
discovery did four teenagers make at Lascaux, France
in 1940? This same question will be on their test. The
day before students watched a short video on the
discovery of the Lascaux cave paintings. This
question will help the students turn their minds to the
topics of cave paintings.
When students walk into the classroom. The room will
be dark and cave sounds will be playing in the
background. This will give students the feeling that
they are actually in a cave, helping grab their
excitement and focus.
1. Task Analysis:
The two days before students completed
the first half of their chapter one note
guide, where they learned about who
social scientists are, how people study the
past, and what social scientists look for
when studying the past. This information
provided the necessary background
information for the students to become
social scientists themselves and study
cave paintings.

Step 1: Students complete their POD

Step 2: The class discuss the answer to
the POD
Step 3: Students will take out their
Reading Guide Notes and we will discuss
our learning target and the directions for
todays lesson.
Step 4: As a class we will complete the
first question together.
Step 5: Flashlights will be passed out.
Step 6: Students will gather in their
groups underneath their table or their
cave and study the cave paintings
taped underneath their tables. While they
study the cave paintings, they will answer
the questions that correlate to each
picture.
When all the groups have finished the
class will complete an exit slip.
2. Thinking Levels:
Remembering- Remember who social
scientists and artifacts are
Analyzing- Break down the different
images within the cave paintings.
Creating- Create a hypothesis of what is
happening in the cave paintings and
decide what we can learn about the
people who created these paintings.
Evaluating- Justify their hypothesis by
using examples from the cave paintings.
Apply- Apply the knowledge they learned
the last week about prehistoric times to
better make a hypothesis.
Understanding- Explain what they learned
in an exit slip.
3. Accommodations:
For this particular activity I decided to
pair higher excelling students with the
lower students, so that the higher
students can help the lower students
learn and stay on task.
4. Materials:
Reading notes
Flashlights

Modeling: I
D0
Checking for
Understanding
Guided
Practice: We
Do
Collaborative
You Do
Together or
You Do
Closure

Assessment

Reflection

Cave Paintings
Cave soundtrack
I will help students complete the first question of the
Reading Notes with the class.
As students work in groups, I will be walking around
the room checking for understanding. If multiple
students ask the same questions, then I will bring the
class together to discuss the question together.
We will complete the first question of the Reading
Notes as a class.
Students will work in groups to complete the majority
of the Reading Notes.
Students will complete an exit slip. Students will write
on a sticky note: What are some inferences or
guesses that you made about the people who created
these cave paintings? What is a question that you still
have about the people who created these cave
paintings? Students will stick their exit slip on the
white board when finished.
The sticky note exit slip will provide what
understanding the students completed. Students will
also turn in their Reading Notes, which I can grade for
understanding.
Did students meet the objective?
Were students able to create inferences on their own,
without my hints?
Were students able to work in the groups given to
them?
Were students able to handle being on the floor?