Lesson Plan Overview and Description
• Expected Duration-- 60 Minutes
• Social Sciences -- Civics/History
• Concepts (Big Ideas) -- The first republic was developed by Ancient Romans. We still use a similar voting system as 2000 years ago.
• Vocabulary/Skills -- Ancient Rome, Republic
• Broad Goals of Lesson- Students will learn what it means to vote for something that is important to them and understand we got the concept of voting from the Romans.
Content Outline and Bibliography
1. PDE SAS Standards -- Civics/Government, History, Economics, Geography
Lesson Objectives
Teaching Procedures:
Anticipatory Set/Introduction
Teacher and Student Resources and Evaluation of Resources
A. STUDENT READING RESOURCES:
Evaluation Chart
Evaluation Chart
Formative/Summative Assessment of Students (P-12)
Technology
Reflection on Planning:
I enjoyed planning this lesson because of my personal interest in Ancient Rome. An important aspect of Roman history is the implementation of the republic, so I decided the focus of the lesson was on the Roman Republic. I believe the lesson would be very successful if implemented because of the simplicity of the voting process. A potential challenge in the implementation of the lesson would be the students interest in what is being voted for (the next book read during free period). I believe the lesson is interesting and creates a sense of community within the classroom.
• Expected Duration-- 60 Minutes
• Social Sciences -- Civics/History
• Concepts (Big Ideas) -- The first republic was developed by Ancient Romans. We still use a similar voting system as 2000 years ago.
• Vocabulary/Skills -- Ancient Rome, Republic
• Broad Goals of Lesson- Students will learn what it means to vote for something that is important to them and understand we got the concept of voting from the Romans.
Content Outline and Bibliography
- Ancient Rome
- Began with many tiny villages, as the villages grew they combined to form the city of Rome.
- Had the world’s first republic.
- Republic- citizens vote to choose government leaders. The leaders make decisions for all the people.
1. PDE SAS Standards -- Civics/Government, History, Economics, Geography
- 8.3.3.C: Identify and describe how continuity and change have impacted U.S. history. Politics and government
- 8. History- 3. United States History- 3. Grade Three- C. Impact of Continuity and Change on US History
- CC.1.4.3.H: Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic.
- CC. PA Core- 1. English Language Arts- 4. Writing- 3. Grade Three- H. Opinion/Argumentative Focus
- VI. Power, Authority, and Governance— C: Give examples of how government does or does not provide for needs and wants of people, establish order and security, and manage conflict.
Lesson Objectives
- Students will elect learders to vote on a classroom decision.
- The students will write an opinion based paragraph on the Roman Republic
Teaching Procedures:
Anticipatory Set/Introduction
- Ask students how we choose who the president is? Does anyone know where we got the idea of 'electing' officials.
- Begin a SmartBoard Presentation
- Handout a presentation outline with words missing- so the students can fill in as they follow along with the presentation.
- The presentation will discuss Ancient Rome.
- The first slide will show where Rome is located.
- The next slide will discuss how Rome started out being a bunch of small villages and formed into a city.
- The next few slides will discuss the Roman Republic
- 509 BC- 27 BC
- First republic- citizens vote on leaders
- Similar to how we vote for our leaders
- To familiarize the students with the concept of voting each student will discuss and vote for the color marker the teacher will use for the rest of the class.
- The students will then be divided into three groups. Each group will vote to elect a "leader" of the group. - Someone who they believe will take into consideration how the entire group feels.
- The teacher will then announce that an important class decision needs to be made. What is the next book the class will read during their free period. There will be a selection of two books. Each group will have the opportunity to read the summaries of each book title.
- The students then have to discuss (deliberate) as a group which book they would want to read.
- It is the elected leaders job to take everyone's opinion into account and vote for the book they would like to read.
- The teacher needs to make it clear that the elected leaders do not need to listen to their groups opinions, but if they do not listen- their group will not most likely not vote for them to be leaders again.
- Independent differentiation will be made depending on specific accommodations needed.
- The class will discuss why they think the Roman Republic system of voting was successful or not. Also the class will discuss how America's system of voting is similiar to the Roman Republics. Then the students will write a four-sentence paragraph discussing why they think the Roman Republic was successful or not, and why.
- For Homework each student will pick one of the topics discussed in today's class (Roman Republic). They will need to print a picture representing the material, and a three sentence paragraph writing they facts they learned about the topic. This will contribute to their personal timeline they are creating during the Unit.
Teacher and Student Resources and Evaluation of Resources
A. STUDENT READING RESOURCES:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/
- http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/index.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/
- http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/index.html
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/roman_education.htm
Evaluation Chart
Evaluation Chart
Formative/Summative Assessment of Students (P-12)
- Formative assessment will be used through teacher observation through out the lesson
- To measure if the first objective is met, (Students will elect leaders to vote on a classroom decision), the teacher will observe the class during the voting process.
- As a form of summative assessment the opinionated paragraph will be collected and graded.
Technology
- SmartBoard
Reflection on Planning:
I enjoyed planning this lesson because of my personal interest in Ancient Rome. An important aspect of Roman history is the implementation of the republic, so I decided the focus of the lesson was on the Roman Republic. I believe the lesson would be very successful if implemented because of the simplicity of the voting process. A potential challenge in the implementation of the lesson would be the students interest in what is being voted for (the next book read during free period). I believe the lesson is interesting and creates a sense of community within the classroom.