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Developmental Learning Lesson Plans
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In this lesson students investigate art history by researching a particular artist. In this biographical lesson, students are given a brief summary of a artist's life and are assigned to create a report on the person. In this lesson students create an outline based on family background, important dates and schools attended before creating a PowerPoint presentation on the artist.
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of problem solving strategies to solve math word problems. They discuss the steps of the problem solving process, and with the teacher solve a simple money word problem together step-by-step. Students then draw a picture and label their solution to the problem.
6th graders examine the changes occuring during adolescents using children's literature. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the various roles they play in their family. In groups, they use excerpts of plays from Shakespeare to identify the images of youth and compare them to their own images. To end the lesson, they discuss the changes occuring not only physically but mentally.
1st graders discuss the problem solving process and the use of sequence and logic in the problem solving process. They discuss the steps taken to solve a problem and they clearly explain how they solved the problem. 1st graders work through problems step by step.
In this lesson 3rd graders solve a variety of repeated addition problems using sequence and logic. As a class they discuss the step-by-step process of solving a problem, read and solve the problems together, and draw a picture and label the parts and write a number sentence for each problem solved in class.
