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The lesson plan is for a 4th grade social studies unit on St. Augustine, Florida. Students will learn about key figures and places in St. Augustine's history through hands-on activities. They will create flipbooks describing Ponce de Leon, the Fountain of Youth, and Castillo de San Marcos fort. Students will then make models of the St. Augustine Lighthouse and write Haiku poems about it. Finally, students will create a character map describing Ponce de Leon's senses during his discovery of Florida. The lesson aims to teach students about the historical significance of St. Augustine through engaging projects.

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Day 4

The lesson plan is for a 4th grade social studies unit on St. Augustine, Florida. Students will learn about key figures and places in St. Augustine's history through hands-on activities. They will create flipbooks describing Ponce de Leon, the Fountain of Youth, and Castillo de San Marcos fort. Students will then make models of the St. Augustine Lighthouse and write Haiku poems about it. Finally, students will create a character map describing Ponce de Leon's senses during his discovery of Florida. The lesson aims to teach students about the historical significance of St. Augustine through engaging projects.

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Teacher(s) Name: Amy Rudolph, Matt Shourds, Zack Rudin Thematic Unit Theme/Title/Grade Level: St.

Augustine, 4th grade Wiki space address: http://ucf4staugustinef11t.wikispaces.com/ Daily Lesson Plan Day/Title: Day 4 Traveling Suitcase
Learning Objectives
What will students accomplish / be able to do at the end of this lesson? Be sure to set significant (related to SSS), challenging and appropriate learning goals!

The students will know who Ponce De Leon is and how he discovered Florida The students will be able to describe the fort and the elements that the fort was comprised of. The students will learn about the Spanish Watchtower, known today as the St. Augustine Lighthouse

NCSS Theme/ NGSSS- Next Generation Sunshine State Standards


List each standard. Cutting and pasting from the website is allowed. These can be downloaded
from the Florida Dept of Education http://flstandards.org.

NCSS THEMES -Explorers -Significant places in St. Augustine NGSSS

SS.4.A.3.1: Identify explorers who came to Florida and the motivations for their expeditions. SS.4.A.3.3: Identify the significance of St. Augustine as the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States. SS.4.A.6.3: Describe the contributions of significant individuals to Florida. Unit Pre-Assessment: Unit Post-Assessment: On-going assessments that the teacher will be doing is: observation, questions and answers (reviewing), reading the poems and flipbooks that the students will be doing. Anticipatory Set: 1. The students will listen to a voki that will explain to them what we will be doing today. http://www.voki.com/pickup.php? scid=4872727&height=267&width=200 2. We will create our suitcases and begin our exploration around the classroom. (ESOL: Visual Aid) Procedures: 1. Each student will have a paper suitcase. There will be 3 activities for the students to do on their field trip. 2. The first activity will be designing their own flipbook. In this flipbook they will be describing the three main features of St. Augustine: Ponce De Leon, Fountain of Youth, and Castillo de San Marcos. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/ The teacher will show the students how to make a flipbook. (ESOL: Visual Aids) 3. The teacher will first review the information about each feature they will be describing. Then the students will create the flipbook from information they have learn over the course of the week, they will be

Assessment
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Design for Instruction


Student Activities & Procedures

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How will you communicate student expectations? What products will be developed and created by students?

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Exceptionalities
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writing short facts about each, and drawing a picture to go with each. 4. Our second activity will be a model of the St. Augustine Lighthouse. 5. We will watch a video about the lighthouse. http://youtu.be/jvh4t3ZMHs 6. Each student will then construct their own lighthouse. 7. Each student will need a paper towel roll (one without paper towels on it) and a piece of red and yellow construction paper. 8. I will show pictures of the light house to the students so they can design their paper towel roll the same color of the lighthouse. Also explain to the students that the yellow piece of construction paper is going to be the light in our lighthouse. (ESOL: Visual Aids) 9. Once the students have colored their roll it is time to put the light and top part of the lighthouse on the base of the lighthouse. The students will glue the top part of the lighthouse with the light in it. 10. After the students have built their lighthouse, they will have to write a Haiku poem about the lighthouse. (ESOL: Show them examples) 11. The third activity is all about Ponce de Leon. The students will be creating a character map on Ponce de Leon. They will draw a picture of Ponce de Leon and describe something that he sees, hears, touch, wears and eats when he founded Florida. 12. After the students have finished all three activities they will put all their souvenirs in their suitcase.

Resources/Materials

Resources: http://youtu.be/jv-h4t3ZMHs http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/ http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=4872727&height=267&width=200 Materials: The students will each need an empty roll of paper towels, glue, markers, construction paper (red and yellow) white printer paper, notebook paper, staples and tap.

Discussion Notes: Students will need to bring their permission slips back for the field trip. The students homework is to go home and show their parents where they went for the day and the materials we made.

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