Instructions for Online Lesson Plan

Create an online lesson plan directly from your Unit Plan

Create one (1) “completely online” lesson plan for your subject area & grade level.  It should be designed to have your students’ access & complete the assignment from your website on the Internet.  Assume that they can not talk to in person & they are completing the lesson from a remote location. Post the lesson plan on your webpage as lessonplan.htm and create a link from index.html to this page.  Note to SPSE 3220/5220 students:  your lesson plan must come from your “Unit Plan” from the previous section. PE majors should use a health-related subject or rules of various sports, etc. instead of skill building, such as, how to shoot a basketball.

No verbal Communications with students

Assume the only access they have to you is thru the website & via email.  This way they can work outside the classroom, or inside the classroom without taking up your time from the regular class instruction.

 

Lesson Plan Includes

Use any appropriate format that includes:

1.      Title & grade level

2.    State Standard for learning objectives

3.    Set (to capture student’s attention)

4.    Student Learning Objectives ( What the student’s will know when they complete this assignment)

5.    Instructional Procedures (Instructions, examples, hyperlinks, etc will be put into a PowerPoint Presentation & posted on your website.

6.    Checks for Understanding (How you know if the are learning what you intend in the Learning Objectives.)

7.    Guided Practice (as needed)

8.    Materials needed

Learning Objectives

1.      Design an effective online lesson plan that can be done from remote site

2.    Plan for designing handouts, tests, or other aids that your students can use while completing the assignment.

3.    Plan for designing & creating a PowerPoint presentation for your students to view.  This will be their complete instructions on how to complete their assignment.

4.    Plan for providing a method to communicate with your online students, for example, email.

5.    Plan to post the Lesson Plan, Handout/Test, PowerPoint, Assessment Rubric, & Student Instructions Webpage on your website as “htm” files.

Lesson Plan Examples

Dangers of the Internet by Blake Southall, Spg 2006

English III, Literary Device by Leslie Gossett

Biology - 10th, Genetics by Patricia Bias

Art - High School, Impressionist Movement by Leslie Fly

English IV, Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing by Elizabeth Wallace

Click Lesson Plan to see an example of a lesson plan by Dr. Weeks adapted by Dr. Sanders for online student access.

Types of lesson plans that Dr. Weeks presents in 3500. 
Not all of these are appropriate for online instruction:

PREPARING A LESSON FOR CLASS: Frequently Asked Questions

 

INQUIRY

·  Guidelines for Inquiry Lesson  

·  Sample Lesson Plan for Inquiry  

·  Rubric for Inquiry Lesson

 

DEBATE

·  Sample Debate Lesson Plan

·  Rubric for Debate Lesson

 

ROLE PLAY

·  Sample Role Play Lesson Plan

 

SOCRATIC SEMINAR

·  Four Types of Follow-up Questions

·  Sample Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan

·  The Coolhunt

·  Homework Text for Demonstration Lesson

·  Audio interview about Socrates Dick Gordon (WBUR, Boston) interviews Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of Chicago.

 

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING

·  Sample Lesson Plan

·  Problem Based Supplementary Rubric

 

JIGSAW PROBLEM SOLVING

·  Sample Lesson Plan

·  Jigsaw Supplementary Rubric

 

Other technology-related & Online Lesson plans:
To view technology-related lesson plans in actual use at middle Tennessee public schools click on Database of Technology-Related Lesson Plans.  Most of the lesson plans have not been adapted for “online” use.  They do not follow Ed Leadership’s Unit Plan & Lesson Plan formats.   If you use one of these as a guide, you need to adapt it to our online Lesson Plan Format.

Use State Curriculum Guides (Standards) for your lesson plan

Your lesson plan’s learning objectives should be aligned with the state Curriculum Guides.  Look up the state of Tennessee Curriculum Guide number for the state standard under which your Learning Objectives fit.  In your lesson plan cite the actual state standard number for each objective. 

 

To locate the state standards by subject area click on the following site.


Tennessee Department of Education -  address - http://www.state.tn.us/education/ Click on Curriculum Link  & you will find all of the subjects listed under “Guidelines with State Test,” or “Guidelines without State Test.”

Here are several links for basic testing procedures:

Creating Good Teacher-Made Test How to get started in writing a good test.

Guidelines for Types of Tests  Help for writing 5 different types of tests; Short Answer, True & False, Matching, Multiple Choice, & Essay.

Tips for Creating Good Tests 15 Tips from Dr. Jan Hayes about what to avoid in writing a teacher-made test.

Blooms Cognitive Verbs - A list of suggested verbs that may fit with 6 cognitive levels. To view a summary of Bloom's Level of Cognition click Bloom's Taxanomy

For help in preparing lesson plans and later as a classroom teacher:

The United States Department of Education – address - http://www.ed.gov/

 

The National Assessment of Education Progress -  address - http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/sitemap.asp

 

Mid Continent Research of Education and Learning (MCREL) or its Standards Page – address - http://www.mcrel.org/  (these are two different links)

 

Instructional Material Center U of M Kansas City

 

And, of course, our own Virtual Planning Room, where you will find it all!

 

Additional Resources:

Bundaberg Curriculum Exchange Unit Planning

7th Grade Science Unit-Plan with Lesson Plans

Information Resources for Secondary Mathematics Teaching

Unit Planning 101

Design your Own Unit

Using the Computer to Enhance Your Classroom Curriculum by Kathy Schrock

Saving the file in htm:

Prior to starting work on the lesson plan, save the file as a webpage (see previous instructions in Section 1, STEP 2) & then name it lessonplan.htm.  You will be working in htm mode from here on.  It works very similar to the regular Word, except a few of the functions do not work.  When you are finished with this assignment post it on your website as an htm file – lessonplan.htm.