Lesson Plan Critique

Lesson Plan Critique

Lesson Plan Title Where am I?   Reviewer Taylor Henderson, Megan Mccreary, Lindsey Jackson, Michael Smith, and Dylan Yussman

Question:	Yes		No
Is the target audience clear?			No
Does it provide enough detail to give a rich description of the classroom?			No
What other information would be helpful to know about the students or classroom?
What grade this lesson is targeted for? How the classroom is setup?
Does the author have a clear idea of what they want students to do?		Yes
Are the standards chosen appropriate for the target audience they outlined?		Yes
Does the objective match the state standards they chose?		Yes
Do the topic, goal, and standards seem compatible with the target audience?		Yes
Are there any objectives that you would revise, and how would you revise them?
No they are all related to the topic.
Is the time appropriate for the lesson? Why or why not?.
Yes if it was split into two lessons. If not it would be to lengthy to hold the students attention.
Does the introduction activity get students engaged and focused?
Yes because it gets them physically and verbally involved.
Does the author provide step by step instructions so that anyone can pick up the lesson and teach from it?
Yes they do.
Do the activities match the objectives?  Give an example.
Yes the activities help the students to reach the objectives. One objective says point out important things on a globe and then she has the students physically pointing things out on a globe by using longitude and latitude.
Do the activities prepare the students for the assessment? Explain how.
The activities are the assessment.
Do the plans for materials seem appropriate for the activities? How might you improve them?
She doesn’t give all the materials that she actually uses in the activities. She could have listed all of the materials instead of just one.
Do the plans for technology seem appropriate?  Are the students using the technology? Is the technology appropriate for the content?  How will the technology help students learn?
Yes at one point they use a computer to look at different websites such as google earth. The technology is appropriate for teaching the geographical lessons.
Does the assessment seem to match the objectives? Give an example.
There was no real assessments because she just collected the activity handouts as the assessment.
What is a strength of this lesson plan? Use specific examples.
The activites because they are really detailed and seems like something the kids would engage in a understand. One example is how she had them toss around the globe and have them find different place made the lessons handout.
How could this lesson be improved? Use specific examples.
On the learning objectives she could say how she is going to teach them to find latitude and longitude. She did not give assessment such as a quiz or test.
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