Overall Instructor Rating: Satisfactory
Ratings explanation:
- Exemplary - A model answer in almost every way (this is given out very rarely).
- Satisfactory - Very well done; you've met the expectations of the assignment. There are some minor problems, so read my feedback well.
- Marginal Pass - You pass, but there are lots of issues to consider. Read my feedback very carefully and be sure you understand the points/issues I raise.
- Not satisfactory, redo and resubmit - The assignment was not completed appropriately. I am concerned that you do not understand the process well enough yet. To get credit for the assignment, you need to redo it, most probably on another topic. Read and consider my feedback very carefully before redoing.
Instructor's Overall Feedback:
Hi Ben:
Your lesson design is logical and should be effective in helping your students achieve the learning objectives. Please complete the other IDA's as soon as possible. I suggest you use this content as a basis for the other IDA's to make it more manageable in the time remaining.
Dr. Law
The purpose of this activity is to design a specific lesson based on the lesson objectives identified in one of your unit instructional curriculum maps (ICMs). This IDA is designed to give you practice in planning lesson based on Gagne's events of instruction (see Dick, Carey, and Carey, chapter 8).
Complete the instructional strategy planning sheet below for one lesson of your choice. Preferably, this is a lesson that you identified during the unit design analysis. However, you can choose any lesson you wish. As outlined by Dick, Carey, and Carey, it may be helpful to organize the events of instruction in the following major groups or components: Pre-instructional activities, Content presentation, Learner participation, Assessment, Follow-through activities.
Your instructional plan should emphasize materials-centered instruction. That is, you should consider resources other than a live instructor for the delivery of the lesson. As you consider possible media, also consider the affordances, or special characteristics, that various media possess.
Instructional Strategy Planning Sheet
Write the instructional objectives of your lesson here (it can be more than one):
Your final response:
Given the GEN Curriculum, teachers will be able to list and describe the life-support functions provided by Earth's ecosystem.
The instructor's feedback to this step:
No specific feedback given on this step.
Enter your instructional plan for each of the instructional components. Also indicate your media choice for each instructional component.
Instructional Component |
Instructional Plan |
Media Choice |
1. Pre-instructional activities
- a. Motivating the learners/gaining their attention
- b. Informing the learners of the lesson objectives or purposes
- c. Informing the learner of what they already need to know to be successful in this lesson (i.e. prerequisite skills)
2. Content presentation
- a. Presenting the content to be learned (i.e. stimulus material)
- b. Guiding the learners as they are presented with the content
3. Learner participation
- a. Giving the learner opportunites for practice (i.e. eliciting the performance)
- b. Giving the learner feedback during practice
4. Assessment
- Tests and other assessments to see if anything has been learned as a result of this lesson
5. Follow-through activities
- a. Memory aids for retention
- b. Activities to help learners transfer their learning to other contexts
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Your final response:
No final draft
1.) Pre-Instructional activities:
1a)Discuss the importance of knowing the list of the life-support functions and being able to the describe them. Explain how it relates with today and how knowing the life-support functions are more important today.
1b)Describe that the goal of the lesson is teachers will be able to list and describe the life-support functions provided by Earth's ecosystem. Explain that teachers will be able to instruct students and understand
1c)Explain that prior knowledge of biology and ecology terms and processes are expected.
2.) Content Presentation
2a/b)Distribute a list of the life-support functions provided by the earth's ecosystem. Explain and discuss each life-support in to great detail through images and video or powerpoint.
3.) Learner Participation
3a) Create a game for learners to play by placing the learners in small groups and through powerpoint ask questions pertaining to life-support functions. This will help them have fun and remember the life-supports.
3b) Assist students when necessary. When someone gets an answer wrong spend time going over that answer so that the learner and everyone else will understand why that was the wrong answer and what is the right answer.
4.) Assessment
4a) Provide a quiz that will ask students to list and describe the life-support functions provided by the earth's ecosystem. Do no allow students to use their notes.
5.) Follow-through activities
5a) Allow students to keep the list of some life-support functions
5b) Have them research and find other life-support functions that were not discussed in class.
The instructor's feedback to this step:
No specific feedback given on this step.
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Your final response:
No final draft
images and video
powerpoint
study guide
oral presentation
The instructor's feedback to this step:
No specific feedback given on this step.
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Provide a rationale for your media choices. How do the media you have selected support the instructional plan you have designed? Do the affordances of the media you've selected match the instructional strategy and support student learning?
Examples of media affordances:
- Video: dynamic representation of people, social situations, psychomotor tasks, etc.
- Computer simulation: dynamic representation of concepts and principles
- Computer spreadsheets: dynamic representation of numeric relationships
- Computer databases: dynamic representation of categorical relationships
Your final response:
No final draft
The main instructional media used in this lesson would be powerpoint. The powerpoint helps with discussing the lecture of the life-supports functions and a great tool for the interactive game that the students play in an attempt to help them learn these functions. Images and videos play a big role as well since they allow students to relate an image to the function. The study guide of a list of functions is a great reference as well for students.
The instructor's feedback to step 4:
No specific feedback given on this step.
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