Sunday, March 18, 2012

Reflection on UDL Lesson Plan

I found the UDL lesson plan a little confusing and difficult to understand. I was unable to fully understand the difference between a UDL lesson plan and any other lesson plan which I would create for my lessons. It seems to involve the same criteria with the exception that the UDL lesson plan asks for materials used and the other lesson plans I use do not.
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CAST’s UDL LESSON BUILDER
Lesson Overview
Title:             Grandfather's Journey
Author:         Allen Say
Subject:         ELA, Science, Math & Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th
Duration:           Six Weeks
Subject Area:    All Core Subjects
Unit Description:   Reading and Writing
Lesson Description for Day:   Begin reading Chapter 1 in the book
State Standards:       TEKS 2 (A-C), 3 - 22
Goals:                       Reading with understanding
Unit Goals:               Read with understanding, write legibly and with clarity
Lesson Goals:          Understand the key terms "culture" and "customs"
Methods:                  
Anticipatory Set:     In order to engage students in the assignment, ask the students to talk about    different places they have been. As a class discuss the different things they saw and some things they noticed that were different from where they live.
Introduce and Model New Knowledge:  Students will use the book and sources to learn about different cultures. Students will learn how to create their own book using an online program.
Provide Guided Practice:   As a class, we will read the story Grandfather's Journey; the teacher will guide the students through the steps of using the computer to research different cultures read about in the book.
Provide Independent Practice:  Students will work independently on researching a particular culture for a country or place they will write about in their own book.
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Assessment:       
Formative/Ongoing Assessment:   Periodically, students will be asked to tell about the main character in a particular chapter.
Summative/End Of Lesson Assessment:   At the end of the book, students will be given a quiz on who the main character was in the book and what was the main theme. Students will also be asked to tell what 2 of the different places were the Grandfather went.
Materials:  The book Grandfather's Journey in hardcopy and audio vers ion, Computers, 1 voice recognition computer with speak and type software, paper, pencils, markers, scissors, scanner, projector,  Maps, globe, books on customs and cultures