Lesson Plan 1

Teacher

Lesson Plan 1

Title: Discovering Your Learning Style

Subject: Ancient Egypt and Learning Styles

Grade Level: 5^th Grade

Time Duration: 2 Lab periods of approximately 45 - 60 minutes each.

Overview:

Students will discover how they learn by completing a learning inventory survey. Once they have completed the survey they will go to the Die Like an Egyptian Web Quest and choose an activity to complete that matches their learning style.

Objectives:

The Learner will:

· Complete the learning inventory and state orally how he/she learns

· Complete the Web Quest project that matches his/her learning style

· Give a brief, oral presentation of what the project was, learning style used, and what was learned

Materials:

· Computer

· Internet Connection

· Printers

· Paper

· Pencils

· Hand out with URLs of the web sites to be used or have them bookmarked and ready to go

· TeamBoard if available, this is a nice too for projecting web sites on to a screen for group viewing.

· Learning Inventory found at http://www.accelerated-learning.net/learning_test.html

· Die Like an Egyptian Web Quest http://www.d118.scook.k12.il.us/south/curriculum/team6c/Egypt/egypt2.htm

· Virtual Tours found at http://www.egyptvoyager.com/pyramids_giza_virtual.htm

Activities and Procedures:

*This lesson plan is to be used after you have given the students an introductory lesson on ancient Egypt.*

1. Talk to students about the ways in which people learn. Lead them into a discussion about how they think they learn. Tell them they are going to go to the computer lab where they will print out and complete a learning inventory that will help them discover how they learn best. Have them share their results with the class and ask them if they feel the results accurately describe themselves.

2. Explain that after they have completed their inventory and turned it in that they will go the Die Like an Egyptian Web Quest site. They are required to pick one of the projects to complete matching their learning style as suggested by the inventory to one of the learning style projects at the site.

3. When everyone has completed their project, they will be expected to present what they have learned to the rest of the class. Limit their time to about a minute so they just give a brief summary.

4. If students finish their projects with time to spare, they may go to http://www.egyptvoyager.com/pyramids_giza_virtual.htm and take a virtual tour of Giza. They will click on the red dots on the map to navigate the site.

Conclusion:

Ask students if they think that their learning inventory made completing this lesson easier and why or why not?