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Lesson Plan-Bill of Rights

This lesson plan outlines a two day lesson for high school students to analyze and understand the Bill of Rights. On the first day, students will participate in a pre-assessment Kahoot game, learn about the 10 amendments from a teacher lecture, and research current events related to their assigned amendment in groups. On the second day, groups will present their findings and create murals depicting their amendment before a post-assessment Kahoot game to check student understanding and progress.

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Lesson Plan-Bill of Rights

This lesson plan outlines a two day lesson for high school students to analyze and understand the Bill of Rights. On the first day, students will participate in a pre-assessment Kahoot game, learn about the 10 amendments from a teacher lecture, and research current events related to their assigned amendment in groups. On the second day, groups will present their findings and create murals depicting their amendment before a post-assessment Kahoot game to check student understanding and progress.

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American History Lesson Plan

The Bill of Rights Comprehension

Skylar Bradley

High School Social Studies

Common Core Standards:


Students apply skills by utilizing a variety of resources to construct theses and support or refute
contentions made by others. Alternative explanations of historical events are analyzed and questions of
historical inevitability are explored.

Some documents in American history have considerable importance for the development of the nation.
Students use historical thinking to examine key documents which form the basis for the United States
of America.

Lesson Summary:

Students will be expected to analyze and inspect aspects of The Bill of Rights.

Estimated Duration:

This lesson will be broken up into two day segments, both lasting 50 min. due to 55-60 min. class times. The
rest of time will be used for directions and clean up.

Commentary:
By placing students in a constructive setting, they will be able to get creative when given the opportunity to
draw which will in turn get them interested with the lesson. Throughout this lesson I plan to struggle with
students getting off task when given the opportunity to work in a group.

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1:
First 10 minutes: Introductory activity- Students will participate in a pre-assessment involving a game of
Kahoot and are expected to record their scores
20 minutes: I will provide students with a copy of The Bill of Rights, and do a quick lecture on each of the 10
amendments.
20 minutes: There will be note cards with the numbers 1-10 on them (3 notecards for each amendment) these
will be passed out randomly and students will group up according to what number they receive. In these groups
with the school provided laptops, they will research current events that relate back to their given amendment.

Day 2:
First 10 minuets: Each group of students will share what current events they found in the previous class that
relate back to their amendment.
30 minuets: Studentswill get back into their groups and be asked to make a mural of their amendment number.
Inside of this number, students may include quotes and pictures that will help remember and understand the
amendment. These murals will be hung up around the classroom.
Last 10 minutes: We will round up class by playing a final game of Kahoot where students will be asked to
record their scores again so I may see their progress at the end of the lesson.

Pre-Assessment:
Game of Kahoot at the beginning of class.
Scoring Guidelines:
I will ask students to record their Kahoot scores at the end of the assessment. While students are
playing this game, I am able to see how many people chose a specific answer for each question and be
able to pin point what I need to focus my lesson on.

Post-Assessment:
Game of Kahoot at the end of class.

Scoring Guidelines:
I will ask students to record their scores once more so that I may check their progress and see if it
would be beneficial to go back and spend more time in this lesson!

Differentiated Instructional Support


To help and challenge students on both ends of the spectrum, I would take out the randomness of assigning
amendments to groups and instead make the groups myself. I would give more advanced students harder
amendments to grasps and make sure student who were struggling got easier amendments. To continue, I
would offer a small study session after class if students were still having problems grasping the lesson!
Extension
https://constitutioncenter.org/billofrightsgame/
This is a link where students may test their Bill of Rights knowledge.

Homework Options and Home Connections


Students are expected to review their notes and come to class prepared with an example of how the Bill of
Rights benefited them this week.

Interdisciplinary Connections
In this lesson, I will be pulling from other subjects such as Sociology (why these would have been made and
why these amendments are important) and English (decoding old English)

Materials and Resources:

For teachers Kahoot account, computer, printouts of the Bill of Rights, notecards.

For students Copy of Bill of Rights, computer/phone, markers, pencil, paper.

Key Vocabulary
Bill of Rights, Amendment, Amendments 1-10

Additional Notes

Be sure to receive feedback from the students to know whether or not to keep this lesson for next year.

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