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Correlation to State Content Standards
Understanding Geography.
Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)
Students will be able to:
Explain the mysterious events of the Bermuda Triangle.
Identify disappearance of vessels by plotting coordinates of Latitude and Longitude.
Create a hypothesis about the Bermuda Triangle.
Common Core Literacy Standard
RH 2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
RH 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
WHST 9: Draw evidence from information texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Anticipatory Set (3 min.)
Starter: 5 W's: Students will take a quiz based on their starters from last week. This is to help build students skill of studying and taking a test. Students will then vote for their student SSC representative.
Direct Instruction (10 min.)
SDAIE: Direct Teach: Bermuda Triangle: Teacher will front load students with the historical events that have made their way into folklore about the Bermuda Triangle.
Guided Practice (10 min.)
SDAIE: TPS: Latitude & Longitude: Teacher will go over the answers to the plotting of the disappearances of vessels into the Bermuda triangle. Will also go over the answers to first two question on the Graphic Organizer.
Independent Practice (20 min.)
SDAIE: Video Clip/Essential Question/Latitude & Longitude: Bermuda Triangle: Students will watch a video clip that introduces the folklore of the Bermuda Triangle. Students will plot vessels on a map and then create a hypothesis to determine the validity of the Bermuda Triangle.
SDAIE: Metacognition: Geography Review: Students will answer a set of questions dealing with the continents, latitude, longitude, and hemispheres as they review for the geography test tomorrow.
Homework.
EdPuzzle: Geography 5 Themes of Geography.
Closure (2 min.)
1. Clean up.
2. Dismiss Class.
Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students
EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.
RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.
GATE: Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.
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