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Student Guide: Creating a Lesson Plan

Your Memory Project Web page will be more useful to teachers and students if it is accompanied by a lesson plan. Students are strongly encouraged to earn extra credit by preparing a lesson plan related to their Web page. A lesson plan linked to your Memory Project will increase the chances that your project will be seen and used by fellow students all over your state and in other states across the nation. In creating your lesson plan, use the Sample Lesson Plan Outline as a guide and a template.

1. Objective

   The object of the lesson plan is:

   • to focus on one particular idea, theme, or artifact, on the Web page; and
   • to provide an activity students that can do, in class and/or at home, to learn about that idea.

   There are probably several important themes and concepts that other students could learn about from looking at your Web page and primary source materials, but you only need to develop one activity. Review your state learning objectives to get ideas about how your Web page might relate to curriculum objectives.

2. Key Words

   In order to discuss or write about the concept that you pick, students will need to know some key words and facts. It is your responsibility to identify these in your lesson plan, so that the teachers may introduce them to their classes.

3. Resources

   Students will be expected to make connections between the primary source material on your page and other topics/themes in state and U.S. history through further reading and research. In your lesson plan, you will need to provide teachers with useful and relevant online and print resources that they may suggest to their classes.

4. Curriculum Framework

   Teachers must keep records of their classroom activities to demonstrate that they have completed the required subjects in the state history curriculum. In your lesson plan, you will help them do this, by analyzing your state history standards as they relate to your Web page topic. The curriculum strand, grade level, and numbered objective that your Web page addresses must be part of your lesson plan.