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Hartsville Middle School
Social Studies Lesson Plan Format
Teacher’s Name/Grade: ______Barbara Farrell/Sped______ Week of: ______December 5 – 9, 2011______
Standard:
6-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of life in ancient classical civilizations and their contributions
to the modern world.
Indicators Addressed: 6-2.1: Compare the origins, founding leaders, basic principals, and diffusion of major religions and
Philosophies as they emerged and expanded, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism,
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
6-2.6: Summarize the significant features of the classical Chinese civilization, including the Silk Road and contributions
to the modern world such as gunpowder, paper, silk, and the seismograph.
Spiral Review/Bellwork
(5-8 minutes)
Homework Review
Indicator Number(s)
Essential Question/
Focus Statement
(Objective)
Materials/Resources/
Equipment
Monday
Tuesday
What does the Wheel of Who was the emperor
who had the Great Wall
Life stand for in the
of China built? (Shi
Buddhist religion?
Huangdi -p.110)
Wednesday
What was the name of
the route used by
merchants in ancient
China to transport their
goods? (The Silk
Road)
Thursday
Name a common
product used today that
was invented by the
ancient Chinese.
Friday
Who started
Confucianism?
(Confucius, Kung
Fuzi)
6-2.6
Summarize significant
features of classical
Chinese civilization
including the Silk Road
and the Great Wall of
China.
Textbooks; Video –
“China’s Great Wall”;
laptop; DocuCam;
individual copies of
teacher-made video
quiz
6-2.6
Explain the positive and
negative aspects of
traveling the Silk Road.
6-2.6
Describe the major
contributions and
inventions of classical
Chinese civilization.
6-2.1
Explain the
fundamental beliefs of
Confucianism.
6-2.1
Compare and contrast
the fundamental
beliefs of Taoism and
Confucianism.
Video – “Story of the
Silk Road”; laptop;
DocuCam; map of
Asia; copy of “The
Merchants Tale”;
Graphic organizer –
T-Chart
Video: “Journals
through History Ancient China –
Contributions to the
World”’; Graphic
Organizer
(cluster/word web)
–ancient China
contributions
(individual copies);
Textbooks; website
http://ancienthistory.
mrdonn.org/Confuciu
s.html; DocuCam
Textbooks;
DocuCam; Venn
Diagram;
teacher-made quiz
Relevance to Students/
Life Experience
Prior Learning
Key Terms
Instructional
Methods/Strategies
Differentiating
Instruction/
Modifications
We all want to protect
ourselves, our home,
our families.
Sometimes people will
get a burglar alarm to
protect themselves.
What about a whole
country though? What
do they do to protect
themselves?
construction paper
Have you ever been
Did you ever pick up What ways to we use
traveling in the car
something at the store to try to stay on the
somewhere and come to
and find out it was
right track and lead a
a street you knew was a
made in China?
good life? We try to
dangerous area? What There is a lot of stuff follow rules, many of
did you do? There are that’s made in China
us go to church. In
always dangerous areas
these days. Today,
ancient China, people
we come across when
though, we’re going
were no different.
we travel. When the
to talk about some of
They wanted to “do
ancient Chinese
the things that were
good” and live right.
traveled the Silk Roads, actually invented by Confucius was a man
danger was par for the the Chinese in ancient who lived during that
course. Today we
times.
time and tried to teach
going to take a closer
the people just how to
look at traveling the
live.
Silk Roads of ancient
China.
Shi Huangdi, Qin
Dynasty, provinces,
Great Wall, Han
Dynasty, Gaozu,
ancestor, Sima Qian,
Ban Ahao, civil service
Shi Huangdi, Qin
Dynasty, provinces,
Great Wall, Han
Dynasty, Gaozu,
ancestor, Sima Qian,
Ban Ahao, civil service
Graphic Organizer:
Graphic Organizer:
Text Feature:
T-Chart
Text Feature:
Shi Huangdi, Qin
Dynasty, provinces,
Great Wall, Han
Dynasty, Gaozu,
ancestor, Sima Qian,
Ban Ahao, civil
service
Graphic Organizer:
Cluster/word web
Confucius, Mencius,
Laozi, nobility, Book
of Documents,
analects,
Confucianism,
Mandate of Heaven,
Daoism
Graphic Organizer:
Graphic Organizer:
Text Feature:
Text Feature:
Teacher Modeling (I do)
1. Review bell work
2. F.S. I read
aloud/you read aloud
Confucius, Mencius,
Laozi, nobility, Book
of Documents,
analects,
Confucianism,
Mandate of Heaven,
Daoism
Venn Diagram
Text Feature:
Teacher Modeling (I do)
Teacher Modeling (I do)
Teacher Modeling (I do)
1. Review bell work
1. Review bell work
1. Review bell work
2. F.S. I read
aloud/you read aloud
Teacher Modeling (I do)
1. Review bell work
3. Model locating
China on globe.
4. Call on students to
come to globe and
locate China.
2. F.S. I read
aloud/you read aloud
3. Today we’re going
to read a story about a
man who is a merchant
in ancient China. The
tale of his travels is very
interesting. First,
though, we’re going to
watch a video that gives
us a little more
information about
exactly what the Silk
Road was.
2. F.S. I read
aloud/you read aloud
3. We’ve just
mentioned the fact
that there’s a lot of
stuff made in China
these days. Now
we’re going to learn a
little more about some
pretty important
things we use in
modern times that
were actually
invented by the
ancient Chinese.
2. F.S. I read
aloud/you read aloud
Guided Practice (we do)
1. Read aloud/discuss 3. Have students
open to page 117.
pages 114-116.
2. Follow discussion 4. Remind class that
we learned about
questions 1-3 on
Confucius yesterday.
teacher text p. 115.
Guided Practice (we do)
Today we learn about
CFU
3. Pull up website on someone who was a
1. Have students open
follower of
internet:
to page 110.
http://ancienthistory. Confucius.
2. Read aloud/discuss
mrdonn.org/Confuciu
pages 110-111. CFU
s.html
3. Follow discussion
Guided Practice (we do)
4. Read
questions on p. 111 of
aloud/discuss. CFU
teacher text.
1. Have students
5. Divide class into
4. Point out that we just Guided Practice (we do)
open to page 117.
groups of 3.
read about one of the
2. Read/aloud
Guided Practice (we do)
6. Hand out
most significant
1. Watch/discuss
discuss. CFU
teacher-made activity 3. Have students
contributions of China
video, “Story of the Silk 1. Watch/discuss
sheet, one per group. recall learning about
during this time - the
Road”.
video,
7. Students work
construction of the
Include in discussion:
“Journals through
Confucius yesterday.
together in groups to 4. Place Venn
Great Wall of China.
Why was it built?
History - Ancient
5. Watch/discuss video, Why was it so close to China – Contributions identify 4 things they Diagram under
learned about
“China’s Great Wall”.
the Great Wall?
to the World”. CFU
DocuCam.
Confucius/Confuciani 5. Call on students to
CFU
What were some
2. Read/discuss p.
sm in today’s lesson. state facts about
6. Handout Video Quiz dangers of traveling the 112. CFU
Silk Road? CFU
3. Place word web
Confucianism and
2. Place copy of “The
under DocuCam. In
Taoism that can be
Independent practice (you
Independent practice (you
Merchants Tale” under center circle write
do)
filled in Venn
do)
DocuCam.
“Ancient Chinese
Diagram.
3. Read aloud together Inventions”
Students complete
6. Review. CFU
and discuss. CFU
4. Call on students to
video quiz
4. Divide class into
come to board and fill
independently while I
pairs and give each pair in the circles with
read aloud. When
different inventions
finished, switch papers a question about the
story.
we’ve learned about
Independent practice (you
with a neighbor and
check while we review
answers and discuss.
5. Students work
together to arrive at an
answer.
6. Call on pairs to read
their question and give
their answer. CFU
7. Discuss each
question/answer, asking
for any further input
from rest of class.
8. Place T-Chart under
DocuCam.
9. Call on students to
state positive and
negative aspects of
traveling the Silk
Roads.
10. Fill in answers on
board. CFU
do)
today. Student must
be prepared to tell
some factual
information about
that invention. CFU
Students work
independently to
complete quiz.
Independent practice (you
do)
Using construction
paper divided into 3
sections, illustrate 3
of the inventions
made by the ancient
Chinese.
Independent practice (you
do)
Closure
Call on students to
answer random
questions covering
today’s lesson
Assessment
Informal observation of
student response to
closure activity; video
quiz
Homework
Early Finishers
Drawing sticks, call on
students to state a
positive or negative
aspect of traveling the
Silk Roads.
Informal observation of
student response to
closure activity; student
responses to pair activity
Call on students to
answer random
questions covering
today’s lesson.
Informal observation
of student response to
closure activity
Call on individual
students to name one
of the comments that
was written on their
group paper.
Informal observation
of student response to
closure activity
Call on students to
answer random
questions covering
today’s lesson.
Informal observation
of student response to
closure activity; group
activity; quiz