Lesson Plan II: How a Bill Becomes a Law
5th Grade Social Studies
Assessing Prior Knowledge: If you were teaching this with the targeted grade level students
How would prior experience have been assessed? The students will be filling out a K-W-L chart during the anticipatory set. This is where the teacher will find out what the student recalls from third grade since this objective was introduced prior.
What would you expect to learn from assessing your students’ prior knowledge? The teacher should expect to find out as much as the student is able to recall from this objective that was introduced back in third grade. With what results on the K-W-L chart the teacher will take that knowledge and decide how much they need to build the background knowledge necessary to delve into this lesson and build upon it. This lesson almost acts as a refresher course for the students. The assessment of the students’ prior knowledge will just give the teacher a good diving board to jump into the lesson from.
How would this information be useful in the planning process? As far as being useful in the planning process, the K-W-L chart will tell the teacher how much “building” or “activating” time will be needed in order to begin the lesson with the whole class on the same page. Hopefully the School House Rock video will be of some great help refreshing the students’ minds, if in fact the third grade teacher used the same video when the objective was taught previously.
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