📖Standard
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3 Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
⏰LESSON TIME
45 minutes including game play
📲TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED
A device with a web-browser – PC, Mac or Chromebook – or phone or tablet.
📃Summary
This is the sixth in a 10-unit English/ Language Arts unit centered around a visit to their grandmother that integrates English/ Language Arts and indigenous history. Grandma and her grandchild disagree on their favorite president. After completing a question on the Venn diagram comparing the two presidents, students create their own Venn diagram comparing the two Making Camp games they have played.
📚Lesson Plan
1. Introduce the Lesson
Use the Google slides presentation to introduce the lesson. This presentation also explains Venn diagrams and directly teaches the vocabulary words, “set”, “union” and “intersection in the context of Venn diagrams.
1a. Students complete assignment using Venn Diagram
After learning about Venn diagrams, students use the diagram included in the presentation to answer questions on similarities and differences between the two presidents. The Venn diagram assignment is linked in the Google slides presentation. You can also find it here.
The answer key for the Venn diagram assignment is here.
2. Students create their own Venn diagram
In this assignment, also included in the Google slides presentation, with example, students create a Venn diagram of the two games they have played, Making Camp Premium and Making Camp Lakota.
3. Making Camp Premium and Making Camp Lakota
Students may wish to play the two games to complete the assignment above.
Related lessons
The previous lesson in this unit is Vocabulary in the Attic.
The next lesson in this unit is Author’s Purpose.
ASSESSMENT
This lesson plan includes three formative assessments. First, the students complete an assignment using a Venn diagram. Second, students create their own Venn diagram. Third, students complete activities in Making Camp Premium or Making Camp Lakota which are recorded and scored automatically.
You can view your students’ progress on mastering this standard by viewing your Making Camp Premium Teacher Reports. You can view the Making Camp Premium reports here.
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