Directions:  Each lesson plan you construct for this class must include all the elements listed below under the two categories: the planning stage and the lesson plan content.   Where applicable, each element includes the BTSA language as well as the TPE objective. Please note that this lesson plan template addresses the same topics, strategies, content, etc. requirements for the School of Education's generic lesson plan template.

The Planning Stage: You need to address the following during your planning stage:

Topic.  What is the topic of your lesson?

Name of Course and Grade Level. What particular history class does this lesson plan address and what is the grade level you are teaching?

Theme(s) or Question(s). Which of your overall course themes or questions for your history class will be emphasized?

Language objectives for ELL students. (TPE 1, 7 and BTSA “language focus”) How will you meet the language needs of your ELL students?

Key Vocabulary/Academic language: What vocabulary words will be incorporated into your lesson? What academic language used by historians will be incorporated into your lesson (i.e., historical interpretation, primary documentation, historiography, critical analysis, etc.)?

California Social Science Content Standards. (Corresponds with BTSA requirement for “academic content standards.”)  Which of the grade-level appropriate California History-Social Science Standards are addressed in your lesson?

Learning Objectives . (TPE 1 and corresponds with BTSA requirement for “Outcomes.”)  What should students understand after this lesson is taught?

Timeline. (Corresponds with BTSA requirement for “sequencing activities.”) How many days or weeks will it take? How does this lesson fit into a larger content unit?

Interdisciplinary component. How and where will you use other disciplines in the lesson plan - geography, music, art, literature, etc.?

Prior knowledge/personal experience. What strategies will you use to link the students' prior knowledge and/or personal experience to this lesson?

Accommodation for special needs/accelerated learners. (TPEs 4, 5 and corresponds with BTSA requirement to “adjust and differentiate the lesson.”)   How will you adjust and differentiate this lesson to accommodate unique learning needs of your students?

Resources/Materials and or technology needed for this lesson: (TPE 4,9)  What resources and materials will  you need to teach this lesson? 

The Lesson Plan Content and Instructional Strategy: Please address each of the following components. (TPEs 1,4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Introduction. How will you link the focus and content of yesterday's lesson with the focus and content of today's lesson? In other words, how will you continue the story you are telling?

Hook.  How will you introduce the lesson in a way that “hooks” student interest by making it interesting and relevant to their lives?

Transition:  How will you connect the hook directly to the lesson content?

Lesson Content. (Corresponds with BTSA requirements for “outcomes,” “teaching strategies,” “asking critical questions,” and “language focus.”)  What is the complete content of your lesson?

• Content - Will students complete a silent, group, or class reading assignment; be involved in a lecture/discussion and take notes; watch a movie; hear a guest speaker; participate in a debate?  You must include the full content of your lecture and/or summarize the reading material, movie, debate content and format, and information provided by the guest speaker, etc.  (BTSA “teaching strategies”)
• Class discussion - What analytical questions will you ask students during the content discussion, after the movie, reading, or guest speaker?  (BTSA “critical questions”)
• In-class activities - What required map exercises and primary documents will be used?  Will you use music, artistic interpretations, biography, literature?  Will there be a vocabulary and literacy component?  (BTA “language focus”)
• Themes/Questions - How will you integrate the course theme(s) or question(s) directly into the lesson content?   (BTSA “outcomes”)

Conclusion. How will you conclude your lesson in a manner that emphasizes the course theme(s) or question(s) in today's lesson?

At home work. What work will students complete at home and how long should it take?

Assessment. (TPEs 2, 3 and corresponds with BTSA requirement for “assessments.”) How will you assess your student's attainment of the learning objectives and understanding of the course theme(s) or question(s)?

Bibliography.  What bibliographical resources did you use?  Include a bibliography of all resources used.