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How will this lesson plan prepare students to be assessed?
This lesson plan will help prepare students for reading, and writing assessment
exams. The in-class written exercise will permit students to demonstrate their
ability to respond to an expository writing prompt. The longer written exercise
will allow students to demonstrate their ability to conduct independent research
and synthesize information from a variety of media.
Procedure:
This lesson is designed to be taught in one session.
- Distribute the students’ version of the “Captain Moore” case
study to your class. Divide the students into groups of two or three.
- Read aloud to them or let them read one section of the case study at a time.
Don’t let them read ahead. After each section, ask each group of students
to brainstorm the answer to the question they have been asked. Then, use the questions
in the teachers’ version of the case study to guide them through a discussion
of what they (in the role of student traveling on the ship) should do at each
point.
- Finish by having students, either individually or in their small groups, complete
the report exercise. Help them use an atlas or world map to sketch a quick map
of the area of the world in which they will be traveling, using latitude and longitude
lines to denote the North Pacific and the areas in which hurricanes or cyclones
can be expected.
- If you wish, have students choose one of the longer term writing assignments
as a homework assignment.
Closure/Assessment:
Review students’ written work both for basic writing or presentation skills,
as well as for students’ ability to explain the steps they would take in
researching weather information.
Then, in small groups or as a whole group, have students review the steps they
should follow when they are confronted with a problem and don’t have enough
information to decide what to do. Ask them to share personal experiences of having
to conduct research to solve a problem. What did they do? How did they use the
information they gathered? What did they do right or wrong? What would they do
if they were confronted with the same problem today?
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