Student: Alisha Larsen_____________________

Subject/Concepts: Social Studies__________________ Grade Level: 4____

1. Standards: CCSD History 5.0 1200 to 1750 Students understand the impact of the interaction of
peoples, cultures, and ideas from 1200 to 1750

o Observable objective: Students will be able to compare and contrast the original 13 colonies
by group. (New England colonies, Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies).

Multicultural goal: Develop a positive attitude toward our own cultural background.

o Observable objective: Students will be able to explain the diversity in the original colonies
of the United States and why it was important.

Auditory-Visual-Kinesthetic learning styles:

o Auditory will be incorporated through the lecture portion of the lesson as well as
through information given in the short introduction video.

o Visual will be used through the video and images used during the lecture portion.

o Kinesthetic learning will be incorporated during the lecture while they take notes, using
the map to remember the groupings and during the independent learning.

Gardner's Intelligence:

o Spatial Intelligence will be used in this lesson when the students need to fill in the blank
map of the original colonies from memory and break them up into the three groupings.

2. Materials: Screen, Projector, Computer, Power Point Presentation The 13 Colonies Lecture,
Crayons or Colored pencils, Markers, Pen or Pencil, Large presentation post-it for each group, and blank
paper.

Handouts: 13 colonies guided practice, New England Summary, Middle Summary, Southern
Summary, Connecticut Colony, Delaware Colony, Georgia Colony, Maryland Colony,
Massachusetts Colony, New Jersey Colony, New York Colony, North Carolina Colony,
Pennsylvania Colony, Rhode Island Colony, and South Carolina Colony.

3. Instruction- learning Process:

Do First: Students will pull out pen and paper to take notes. Power point presentation will be
pulled up and projected on to the screen where the video on the second slide will be played. Go
over questions from the third slide to review information from the video.
 Mini-lesson: The mini-lesson will consist of the lecture from the remaining slides in the Power
Point presentation The 13 Colonies Lecture. We will go over various historical facts relating to
the settling of the colonies. Why the people decided to move, where they went, the diversity
within the regions and between them. At the end there will be time for any remaining questions
the students might have. The students will be taking notes to use later.

Guided Practice: Students will need to close their notes and do the worksheet entitled 13
Colonies Geography. They will have 10 minutes to complete the worksheet. The last five
minutes we will go over the answers as a class and the students will grade their own
worksheets. These will be handed in at the end of the lecture, so the students will have access
to them during the independent practice if needed.

Independent Practice: The students will now break into groups of 3-5 students and work on a
small presentation to share with the class. Each group will be given a summary of each group
(New England, Middle, and Southern) to use as a reference. They will also have access to a
copies of summaries of a few colonies individually broken down, as well as access to a computer
to look up anything else that they might want to use in the presentation. The students will use
these resources to compare the differences between the three colony groups, as well as finding
something from a specific colony in each group that was important for the success of them all as
a group. The students will use the large presentation Post-It and markers to display their
comparisons of the colony groups and how a colony in each group contributed to the success of
the colonies. This will help the students to understand that the differences in the cultures
between the colonies is what allowed them to be successful as a whole. Each group was able to
relay on anothers strengths to help where they were weak. Without the diverse colonies they
would not have been able to eventually cut ties with England and become their own country if
they would still need to depend on England for certain supplies.

Exit Slip: The students will bring the completed projects to the front one group at a time and
show that all participants in the group had some part in the project and that their names have
been written on the back. The students will give a short presentation at the end of the week as a
review before completing a weekly review quiz on the topics of the week.

4. Resources

History.com Staff. (2010). The 13 Colonies. Retrieved from

http://www.history.com/topics/thirteen-colonies

Nussbaum, G. (2015). 13 Colonies. Retrieved from

http://mrnussbaum.com/13-colonies/

5. Reflection:

The student will gain a better understanding of why the colonies were originally established, challenges
they may have faced, what helped them to be successful, and how the different colonies were able to
have the resources they would need to eventually separate from England. They are also able to see that
it is important to have people with different views and cultures working together to achieve success.
Learning the importance of differing viewpoints will help the student to understand the benefits of
different cultures coming together to create a new blend. If all of these people came over and changed
their culture completely to match what was already there, we would not have the chance to learn from
each other and use one groups strengths to benefit another groups weaknesses. That is also the reason
many of these people left England, so that they would have the freedom to practice their religion as
they wanted instead of following the way of the world where they were before. I think there is a decent
balance for the different learning styles so that each type of learner has an opportunity to use their
strongest way of learning whether it be Auditory, Visual or Kinesthetic. Having the students take notes
during the lecture portion will help to keep them engaged in the lesson while also helping the students
who learn better by doing. Having the visual with the verbal speak will also help the students that need
to see things and not just hear things to learn.

I believe the base of this lesson has some strong ideas. I think that looking for a way the individual
colonies benefited the whole is a different view to take on the normal this is what happened type of
lesson. It also forces the students to use their critical thinking to figure out what each colony was able to
share with the others to create success. Having the students work in groups also allowed them to
accomplish more reading by offering them the chance to assign different things for the students to read
and share with their group. Ideally I would like to have a history book to use for students to have access
to for further information. I was able to find a website that had printable sheets with summaries on the
different colonies and the three groups as well as a map already made for the students to be tested on
the locations of each colony. I used the article from History.Com for most of the lecture period as I felt
that was a credible source to obtain information from since I do not know what books I might have
available in the class room to use for the students to read along. I think it might have been better to
paraphrase, but I was worried that because there was not something to look back on it would be better
to speak off of the original words instead of using a paraphrase that might lose some detail through the
time spent between the writing and the actual presentation.