edTPA/OTES Lesson Plan Template

LESSON TITLE: Economic Impact on Cities SUBJECT AREA: Economics

GRADE LEVEL: 9th grade TIME ALLOCATION: 55 minutes

FOCUS FOR LEARNING: OBJECTIVES (MEASURABLE GOALS/TARGETS with active verbs):

1.) Students will be able to describe the economic impacts on cities
2.) Students will be able to describe to us their plan to improve the North Akron area.
3.) Students will be able to describe the importance of civil engagement

OHIO STANDARDS:
● Individuals can assess how effective communicators address diverse audiences.
● Effective civic participation involves identifying problems or dilemmas, proposing appropriate
solutions, formulating action plans, and assessing the positive and negative results of actions
taken.
STUDENT PROFILE (Analyze students’ development, readiness for learning, preferred learning styles, or backgrounds and
prior experiences. Use more than one procedure to gain this info. )
● In lessons prior, various forms of teaching styles have been used. Students have been observed
learning to see what their preferred learning styles are and what teaching style they react to the
best.

CONNECTION BETWEEN PRIOR AND FUTURE KNOWLEDGE (Discuss students’ readiness for learning, preferred
learning styles, or backgrounds and prior experiences. Describe the procedure(s) used to gain this info ):
● Students will have learned about the economy in previous lessons and have a basic
understanding of it.

TIME ALLOCATIONS: 15 minutes

INDUCTION (introduction to lesson)
We will introduce the topic by giving the students some ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
background information regarding the status of North Akron ● The purpose of this activity
is to get students engaged
North Akron CDC’s website will be displayed on the board when in the lesson that is going to
students come into class. take place. The picture they
will be looking at includes
The students will have a few minutes to look at the picture on the people from various
homepage of North Akron’s website. cultures, races, ethnicities
and backgrounds. North
We will then have a short discussion about what the students Akron CDC focuses on
noticed in the picture. celebrating diversity and
bringing people from
The students will be asked about what they think is going on in diverse backgrounds
the picture and anything that they notice. together. The picture and
discussion will try to give
students an idea of what
North Akron CDC does.
STUDENT GROUPING:
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)
 ● Whole class
IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:
(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
● North Akron CDC website
● Laptop/Computer
● Projector and board
ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:
● Diversity
● North Akron CDC
ASSESSMENT PLANS:
● None
ACTIVITY #1 (Include teacher questions, student expectations, TIME ALLOCATIONS: 20 minutes
modifications for students with special needs)
ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
● For the activity we will have students come up with their Review of prior knowledge/skill?
own solutions to problems businesses in North Akron New knowledge/skill?
face. The activity will also have students identify ways to ● The purpose of the activity
make the community a better place. is to get the students
thinking about ways they
● Students will conduct research about the North Akron area can improve neighboring
and identify areas of need that require improvement such communities. The students
as the community and businesses. will be in small groups and
will be working together to
● The students will propose solutions to the matters that come up with possible
were introduced by The North Akron CDC. solutions to help get the
local community and
● Students will be asked to identify ways they think will economy back on track.
benefit the community and surrounding businesses.
STUDENT GROUPING:
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)
Groups

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)
● Students will be grouped
together so they can bounce
ideas off one another and
they can also discuss their
solutions. The students will
then select a group leader
and the group leader will
present the group’s
proposed solutions.

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
● https://northakroncdc.org/
● Notebook paper
● Projector and board
● Pencil

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

 ASSESSMENT PLANS:
None

ACTIVITY #2 (If needed. Include teacher questions, student TIME ALLOCATIONS: 15 minutes
expectations, modifications for students with special needs)
ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
● After the students time is up to discuss with their groups Review of prior knowledge/skill?
the class will come back together. New knowledge/skill?
The purpose of the activity is a
discussion with the class about
● Each of the groups will have a designated “group leader” what the group's solutions were.
that will discuss the groups solution to bringing the The students will be able to share
community together. their results with the class.
● As the groups present their information with the class the
teacher will be writing the solutions on the board. STUDENT GROUPING:
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)
Whole

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
● Board
● Group’s solutions
● Paper
● Pencil

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

● The North Akron CDC
● Economic Impact

ASSESSMENT PLANS:
None

ACTIVITY #3 (If needed. Include teacher questions, student TIME ALLOCATIONS:

expectations, modifications for students with special needs) (REPEAT
AS NEEDED) ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
Review of prior knowledge/skill?
New knowledge/skill?

STUDENT GROUPING:
(whole, small group, coop, indiv, other)

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:

ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:

ASSESSMENT PLANS:
 None?
Formative?
Summative?

CLOSURE TIME ALLOCATIONS:

● The closing activity will be a Google Form. Students will ● 5 minutes
complete a Google Form that will serve as an exit slip at
the end of class. ACTIVITY PURPOSE:
● The Google Form asks some questions about North Akron ● This activity is trying to see
CDC as well as giving them a chance to apply what they what the students learned in
learned in class to their own life. class for this lesson. It also
gives students a chance to
apply and relate what they
learned in this lesson to
their own life. This
assessment will show if
students really got an
understanding of the lesson
as it has them making
connections and applying
their knowledge.

STUDENT GROUPING:
● Individual

IF GROUPED, EXPLAIN BASIS:

(random, differentiated, other, ..)

MATERIALS/RESOURCES:
● Google Form Link
● Laptops
ACAD LANG CONSIDERATIONS:
● Google Forms
● North Akron CDC
ASSESSMENT PLANS:
● Formative
DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT (Discuss post-teaching plans based on assessment data collected to inform future teaching ):
● The exit slip results will be used to analyze what students took away from the lesson and used to
determine if something in the material needs cleared up or gone over again. Students will be
observed during the lesson and activity to see if this style of lesson and method of teaching
could be used in future lessons or to see if adjustments need to be made.