Barack Obama Lesson Plan: Individuals’ Contributions and Identities
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Barack Obama, and supports the standard of understanding how individuals have contributed to social change in the United States. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Ask students:
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign Barack Obama Challenge and Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about Barack Obama while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
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