Universal Design for Learning Lesson Plan

Teacher(s): Corinne Spaeth Date: 5/6/16 Subject: Social

Studies

Materials Needed:

Make sure you have all of your materials collected and

organized so your lesson will flow smoothly. If you are presenting this lesson
collaboratively, make sure you know who is responsible for what.
Do Now Piktochart of the Causes of the Great Depression; Activity Packet that
contains the graph, Unemployment in the United States, and passages about how the
Great Depression affected African Americans, farmers, women, and children with
questions for each passage and a graphic organizer for the students to fill out;
Kahoot assessment quiz; VoiceThread about effects of the Great Depression on
African Americans, farmers, women, and children; Class set of iPads with headphones;
SMARTBoard.

Lesson Objective(s):

State your objectives behaviorally. For example:

Given (state the condition under which the students will perform the objective), the
students will (state an observable student behavior) with (state the criteria here a
statement that specifies how well the student must perform the behavior) accuracy. An
example of a behavioral objective is: Given an unlabeled diagram of the solar system, the
students will label the nine planets and the sun with 80% accuracy.

 Students will be able to interpret the graph Unemployment in the United

States to analyze the severity of unemployment as an effect of the
Great Depression, and answer accompanying questions with 90% accuracy.
Students will be able to analyze how the Great Depression affected
African Americans, farmers, women, and children, and complete a Kahoot
quiz with 80% accuracy as an exit assessment.

Standard/Benchmark/Indicator:

Are you aligning your lesson

with district or state standards?

Common Core Standards:

R1: Students will cite textual evidence from the Effects of the
Great Depression packet to support conclusions about how the
Great Depression affected African Americans, women, farmers, and
children.
R7: Students will use multiple sources of information such as the
graph, Unemployment in the United States to examine how
unemployment increases after the stock market crash.
SL1: Students will have collaborative discussions to teach each
other about how one specific group was affected by the Great
Depression.
W4: Students will use clear and coherent writing that assess their
understanding of the effects of the Great Depression by producing
an exit slip at the conclusion of the lesson.
New York State Standards:
8.4a: Risky investing, protectionism, and a weak global economy
during the 1920s led to the collapse of the stock market, a wave of
bank failures, and a long and severe downturn in the economy called
the Great Depression
8.4b: The Great Depression affected all American families, but the
effects varied across geographic regions and class, race, and gender
lines. The Dust Bowl devastated farming regions in the Great Plains
and forced thousands to relocate. The federal government

responded with environmental conservation legislation.

Anticipatory Set:

How are you going to motivate your students...assess or

review prior knowledge...introduce your topic...organize your lesson for students?

Students will discuss the previous days lesson, the Causes of the Great
Depression, as a review in the form of a Piktochart. This will also provide the
students with background information for the current lesson.
To introduce the topic of the Effects of the Great Depression, students will
interpret the graph Unemployment in the United States to analyze the severity
of the effects of the Great Depression on the American people during the
1930s.
The students will look at the Causes of the Great Depression Piktochart as a
class. Students will then complete the Unemployment in the United States
graph and accompanying questions independently, and go over their responses as
a class. They will then break into groups of 4 to do a jigsaw lesson about how the
Great Depression affected African Americans, farmers, women, and children.
Students will be grouped heterogeneously, so that more proficient readers can
assist struggling readers. As an assessment, students will complete a Kahoot quiz
to determine their understanding of the lesson. They will also answer the exit
comment question, Which group of people do you think was impacted the most
by the Great Depression and why?, choosing to respond using written text, an
illustration, or a combination of both options.

Multiple Means of Representation:

How are you going to

present your content so that it meets the needs of all students...is the information
represented in different ways? For example, utilizing guided notes and graphic organizers
in addition to a lecture format or having several books that represent different reading
levels.

1.1: Offer ways of customizing the display of information: Students will be

provided with a packet that includes a graph and pictures. The students
will also be provided with a Piktochart of the Causes of the Great
Depression Review as a Do Now discussion activity, and will access a
VoiceThread for the 4 groups of Americans on their iPads.

 2.5: Illustrate through multiple media: In this lesson, the material will be
presented to students through the use of graphs, written text, a graphic
organizer, pictures, and narration of the text.
3.1: Activate or supply background knowledge: Students will begin this
lesson by reviewing the previous days lesson, which focuses on the causes
of the Great Depression. This will help the students make connections
between the causes and effects, and scaffold big ideas and key
information.
3.2: Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships: Big
ideas and critical features of this lesson will be highlighted by the use of a
graphic organizer.

Multiple Means of Engagement:

How are you going to provide

multiple pathways for students to actually learn the material presented? Practice, or
active mental/physical engagement, is required by students to make real learning happen.
For example, some students may benefit from small group learning opportunities; others
may require more focused practice with precise feedback, while others might benefit from
working independently. Some students will need to write, others will need to talk through
ideas before they understand, while others may need to physically represent what they
are learning.

7.1: Optimize individual choice and autonomy: Students will be provided

with a choice when answering the question for the exit comment. They will
be allowed to write their response, illustrate it, or use both words and
pictures. This will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of
the lesson topic in a way that works best for them.
8.3: Foster collaboration and community: In this lesson, students will be
divided into heterogeneous groups for the purpose of analyzing the
packet, answering higher order thinking questions, and completing a
graphic organizer. Students will discuss the four different groups of
Americans as a group, and work collaboratively to complete the packet.
9.3: Develop self-assessment and reflection: Students will answer an exit
comment to reflect on the big ideas of the lesson. Before handing in their

exit slips, the students will discuss their responses as a class. This will
allow for the teacher to gauge student understanding, and to clarify any
misconceptions or misunderstandings the students have about the lesson.

Multiple Means of Expression:

How will students demonstrate

what they have learned? Again, the creation of many paths is key. Some students are good
test-takers, while others are not. Tiered assignments, oral exams, building a model, making
a video, using portfolio assessment are examples of alternatives to traditional paper/pencil
tests.

5.1: Use multiple media for communication: The exit slip for this lesson will
allow students to answer the question through the use of written text, an
illustration, or the combination of both. This will allow students to choose
the option through which they can best demonstrate their understanding
of the lessons big ideas. The students will also complete a Kahoot quiz as
another way for them to demonstrate their knowledge.
6.3: Facilitate managing information and resources: Students will be
provided with a graphic organizer to help them record the key information
and big ideas for each group of Americans they are to analyze: African
Americans, farmers, women, and children.