Museum Mix-Up Lesson Plan: This artifact is a multi-day lesson plan written for my two social studies classes during the 2011-2012 school year. While planning for this lesson, I studied both the Iowa Core standards and local standards extensively to ensure the instruction would align with standard expectations. This alignment is visible at the very beginning of the lesson plan where I have listed the standards addressed. Beginning the plans with standard alignment ensures that my objectives are written in a way they will meet the standards and that the remaining portions of the lesson will as well. I always begin planning for instruction with the standards in mind to ensure I am using instructional time to teach meaningful material.