Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template 

Teachers: Subject:
Noah Hinojosa World History
AZ State Standards:
● Analyze how technological innovation and trade has affected economic development and transformed societies.

Learning Objective:
● Students will analyse the role of technological innovation in creating and strengthening economic development.

Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):

◻ How will you assess if your student achieved mastery of the lesson objective?
◻ Determine the type of demonstration/activity the student will use to demonstrate mastery of the objective.
◻ What is the condition and degree, the setting or situation in which the student will be able to express the depth and extent of
learning?
◻ What is an exemplar student response with the level of detail you expect to see?

Formative​: Throughout the lesson and unit, students will engage in discussions in order to answer prompted
questions and questions raised by other students, demonstrating their understanding of the role of different
technological developments.
Summative​: A quiz where students can demonstrate their understanding of technological innovations and their
economic impact, by categorizing different technologies and their impact on the economy. Additionally, students will
be able to demonstrate understanding by comparing and contrasting two similar technologies and their economic
benefits.

Key Academic Vocabulary: (Consider Bloom’s Materials Needed:

Verbs) For Presentation:
Analyze​= examine, scrutinize, break down, dissect, Computer, Projector, Sound System
investigate, determine elements or characteristics of…
Differentiate​= discern, separate, understand,
characterize

Opening Activity
◻ How will you activate student interest?
◻ How will you connect and uncover prior knowledge?
◻ How will you present the lesson objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?

Opening Activity - Students will begin the lesson by working in small groups to brainstorm what
they think are some of the most important technological innovations in history, either recently or
from long ago. Students will then share these with the class in order to start spreading their
ideas around and to get everyone thinking about technology and its impact on daily life. using
their ideas as a starting point, I will transition to the next part of the lesson, introducing
historically significant technological innovations.

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Instructional Input “I do”
Teacher Will:
◻ How will you model/explain/demonstrate all
knowledge/skills required of the objective?
◻ What types of visuals will you use?
◻ How will you address misunderstandings or
common student errors that may be uncovered
within prior knowledge?
◻ How will you explain and model behavioral
expectations?
◻ Is there enough detail in this section so that another
person could teach it?
Teacher will:
● Introduce the concept of technological
innovation and the economic impacts of these
innovations.
● Explain the concept of how technological
innovations are achieved (reason for their
development, other/previous solutions, effect of
their introduction, etc.)
Presentation will use a mixture of visuals, ranging from
photographs, diagrams, and video.
Guided Practice “We do”
Teacher Will:
◻ How will you provide guidance to all students as
they practice?
◻ How will you ensure that all students have multiple
opportunities to practice new content and skills with
your support?
◻ How will you utilize the support of peers within this
practice?
◻ Is there enough detail in this section so that another
person could facilitate this practice?
Teacher will:
● Guide students through the development
process of several key historical technological
developments (ex. cotton gin, steam engine,
etc.).
● Prompt students to think about how these
developments improved upon previous
techniques or created new methods of
completing tasks.
● Have the class work in groups to work through
several example cases of a specific task or
manufacturing process and determine how
specific developments in technology changed
how those tasks were handled. Additionally,
have groups determine some of the economic
benefits of these innovations.
Student Will:
◻ What will students be doing to actively capture and
process the new material and connect to their prior
knowledge?
◻ How will students be engaged?
Students will:
● take notes over key concepts
● ask questions that they have over the lesson and
answer guided questions throughout the lesson.
Student Will:
◻ How will students be engaged?
◻ How will students practice all knowledge/skills required
of the objective, with your support?
◻ How will you elicit student-to-student interaction?
◻ How are students practicing in ways that align to
independent practice?
Students will:
● work in groups or individually to complete the
practice tasks
● share with other students/groups their responses
and provide feedback to others responses.
● Come together as a class to discuss
○ why different technological innovations
were implemented
○ give a simple explanation of what they did
○ how they benefited those who used them
○ share any additional comments or
questions they have on their example or of
other groups' examples.
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 Independent Practice “You do”
Teacher Will: Student Will:
◻ How will you plan to coach and correct during this ◻ How will students be engaged?
practice? ◻ How will students independently practice the knowledge and
◻ How will you provide opportunities for remediation and skills required by the objective?
extension? ◻ How are students practicing in ways that align to
◻ How will you clearly state and model academic and assessment of collection of evidence of mastery?
behavioral expectations within the collection of evidence ◻ How are students using self-assessment to guide their own
of mastery? learning?
◻ Did you provide enough detail so that another person ◻ How are you supporting students giving feedback to one
could facilitate the practice? another?

Teacher will: Students will:

● Give suggestions for possible topics or how to
narrow down between several possible topics
● Guide students to think more critically about why
certain innovations were developed
● approve or reject topics students propose
Closing Activity:
◻ How will students reflect on learning?
◻ Summarizing and stating the significance of what they learned.
◻ Acknowledge the new information that was added/developed within their schema.
● Write a short report on the development process
(background of problem/purpose, the creation of
device or system, economic benefits) of a
technological innovation of their choosing.
○ preferred that they find one that was not
discussed in class
○ can be modern or from history
● Students will be put into small groups to present
their findings and provide peer feedback.

Students will share what they think was the most impactful technological innovation in their own lives is
and how previous innovations led to it. Students will also think about how that technological innovation’s
pros and cons toward their productivity translates to how businesses have to think about the pros and
cons of developing or adopting new technologies.