Ed+Rabel+Lesson+Plan

http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/jparker/uploaded_images/Moon040721-772085.jpg [] **Title**: Moon Landing Video of original moon landing. Editorial cartoon Footprint document Students will watch a short video on the original moon landing. The class will discuss questions based on how that changed history. The students will each receive a KWL chart. They will use the cartoon and the video for prior knowledge to fill out the chart. They will each discuss their outcomes with the class. The students will then break into groups of four. They will examine the document of Neil Armstrong’s footprint. Using the SEA method they will work together to complete it. The students will create their own cartoon if we landed on Mars today with a sketch of their own footprint on Mars surface. The students will be evaluated on each activity using a rubric. This lesson would integrate with history and social studies. It would create critical thinking skills by incorporating group work, individual, and creativity. Ed, I like to do creative activities with my students. I think your students will enjoy creating a cartoon of their own footprint. This activity requires them to plan, organize,show symbolism etc. We can really evaluate concept learning through the creation of a project. (Pat Cassner)
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Ed, I like how you are molding the cross-curriculum together with history and social studies. It will enable students to link years of class from prior knoweldge and apply to the future. The more studies that that done about teaching across the curriculum, the more that it seem we need to link all classes together. I also love the activities, especially when the kids get to make their own cartoon. It will bring out their personality, even if they use stick figures like me! (Brett Livingston) Ed, I loved the activities and the cartoons. I believe this may instill in the students the difference between the world then and now. Remember that this was a HUGE undertaking and while the movie that they may be familiar with //Apollo,// things were a bit different than is portrayed. As a cultural experience for them, you may want to have one of your teachers that experienced it (yes, some of us were alive when we landed on the moon) come in and speak to your students. The space program was such a HUGE part of our lives simply because we had been ingrained to believe that the Russians were going to attack us. There are still many school buildings that have a basement that was a location for everyone to go to. That might be an even cooler thing to do - check out one of the spots within your district! (Shirley)