EDPC605 Curriculum Design and Instruction

Candidate’s Name: Shany Justman Grade Level: 2 Title of the lesson: Continents, countries, states, cities, What’s the Difference? Length of the lesson: 30 min Central focus of the lesson (The central focus should align with the CCSS/content standards and support students to develop an essential literacy strategy and requisite skills for comprehending or composing texts in meaningful contexts) Key questions: what do you want your students to learn? How to make a model to represent the kinds of lands what are the important understandings and core concepts you want students to develop within the learning segment? Students should learn what the difference between continents, countries and cities. Knowledge of students to inform teaching (prior knowledge/prerequisite skills and personal/cultural/community assets) Key questions: What do students know, what can they do, what are they learning to do? Students have heard of countries and cities, however they may ...

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