LESSON PLAN FORMAT

CSL 570
SPRING 2017

NAME: Lisa Williams

LESSON TOPIC: Introduction to Ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta (2 Days)

RATIONALE: This lesson gives the students an opportunity to be introduced to ancient Greece.
The students will engage in collaborative discussions as well as examine multiple photographs
that allow the students to preview information about ancient Greece. The photographs will
include ancient Greek civilizations, geography, Greek culture, military as well as different
aspects of the economy. The students will also be introduced to the geographical features that
make up ancient Greece. All of this information is essential for the students to learn because
ancient civilizations have impacted the world we live in today. This introductory lesson is
essential to the unit they are learning because it is the foundation to learning all about ancient
Greece. As the students learn all of this information they will be ready to continue on their
journey to learning more about ancient Greece.

COMMON CORE STANDARD (S):

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs,

videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1 -Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions

(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and
issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1.C - Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and

detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2 - Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats

(e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue
under study.

OBJECTIVE: (The student will be able to)

The students will be able to engage in a collaborative discussion based on ancient Greece.
 The students will be able to ask as well as respond to various questions based on the
collaborative discussion points while examining multiple photographs.

The students will be able to describe the geographical features of ancient Greece.
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE:

Ancient Greece
Olympics
Geography
Peninsula
City-State

MOTIVATION OR ANTICIPATORY SET:

Day 1:

The teacher will explain to the students that they are now all Olympian contestants,
representing their city-state at the Olympic games!
The class will be split up into groups of four students. Each group is a team. Each group will
create a name for their team and will create a quick flag using construction paper and markers.
The Olympic games will begin. The students will complete three different tasks. The first
task is Javelin Throwing. Each team will create a paper javelin and then they will throw their
javelins and see which team can throw it the farthest. The next task is ball in a basket. Each team
will begin at a line and there will be a basket about 10-15 feet away from the line. Each team will
have 5 balls. They have to throw the balls and try to get as many balls as they can in the basket.
The third and final task is art recognition. Each team will pick a piece of paper out of a box. Each
piece of paper has the name of an item. Whichever piece of paper the team picks up, they must
draw that item as best as they can.
When all the tasks are completed, the teacher will ask the students, Where was the first
Olympics held? The teacher will then explain that the Olympics originated in ancient Greece
and how this is going to be the next unit that they are learning about in social studies.

BRIEF PROCEDURE:

Day 2:

The teacher will place the students in five groups. There will be about 4-5 students in each
group. Each group will have one iPad, which they will utilize throughout the lesson.
 The students will travel around the classroom to examine the gallery walk. As the students
travel around the classroom there will be five different stations. At each station there is going to
be a QR code as well as chart paper.
As the students travel around the classroom with their groups, they will use their iPads to
scan the QR code. When they scan the QR code they will be brought to a guiding question and
various pictures. All of the pictures and questions will allow the students to discuss ancient
Greece and preview the topics they will soon be learning more about. After the students view the
questions and pictures, they will write down their thoughts and answers to the questions on the
chart paper provided. The teacher will walk around to provide additional questions as well as
support as the students are engaged in their gallery walk.
After each group visits each station of the gallery walk, the whole class will come together
to have a whole class discussion. The teacher will lead the students in a brief but meaningful
discussion in regards to the various questions that was at each station.
The teacher will present a brief Prezi personation to introduce geography as well as
city-states to the students. The students will fill in notes in their social studies notebook.
At the conclusion of the lesson, the students will receive two post-its. They will place these
post-its on the parking lot (What do you know before you go?) as they finish. On one post-it
the students will describe the geography of ancient Greece. On the other post-it, the students will
write down one question that they have in regards to ancient Greece. The students will stick their
post-its on the parking lot. The teacher will refer back to the students questions throughout the
unit plan. The students can also record their questions down in their social studies notebook so
they can refer back to them as well as write down the answer as they learn more about the topic.

MATERIALS USED:
Paper
Basket
Balls
Markers
Pencils
iPad
QR Codes
Chart Paper
Prezi Presentation (https://prezi.com/jshycm3oazpf/edit/#57_30863873)
Social Studies Notebook
Post-Its

TECHNOLOGY COMPONENT (IF APPLICABLE):

The students will use an iPad to scan QR codes throughout the gallery walk.
 The teacher will present a Prezi presentation using the SMART board.

ASSESSMENT OF COMMON CORE STANDARD (S)

Formal The students will answer the questions on the chart paper as they travel around the
classroom on the gallery walk. The students will also be creating their own question about
ancient Greece at the conclusion of the lesson. In addition, the students will be assessed on the
knowledge about the geography of ancient Greece as they fill out their post-it for the parking
lot.
Informal The teacher will be walking around as the students engage in their collaborative
discussions. The teacher will walk around with a clipboard and jot down some of the discussion
points each group talked about.

ADAPTATIONS:
Student with special needs The students with special needs will receive a note organizer
that includes sentence starters in order to support their writing as they take notes throughout the
Prezi presentation. Visuals will be provided as well. In addition, the students with special needs
will be heterogeneously grouped with other students who can model as well as provide support
and guidance.
English Language Learner The students who are English language learners will receive a
note organizer with visuals to support their learning.
Struggling Reader The students who struggle with reading will be heterogeneously
grouped with other students who can model as well as provide support and guidance.

Reference

Ancient Greek Olympics. (n.d.). Retrieved from

http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/GreekOlympics.html#OPEN
 ArtRecognition

Horse

WarHelmet

WarShield

OlympicTorch

Technology: QR Codes

QR Code Station #1

QR Code Station #2

OR Code Station #3
QR Code Station #4

QR Code Station #5
Name___________________________________ Date_________________

IntroductiontoAncient__________

GeographyofGreece

___________isasmallcountryin_____________.

Greeceisnearthe_________________________________.

__________hasmanytall________________.

 ThemainpartofGreeceislocatedona___________________.

Apeninsulaisabodyoflandthatissurroundedon___________

sidesofwater.

TheotherpartsofGreecearemadeupof____________.

GreekCity-States

Greecebuiltmany_________________insteadofonecountry.

A_____________isacitywithitsown__________,

_________and___________.