Final Project

For my final project I am in an 8th grade US history classroom on the tail end of the Civil War unit. My lesson plan focuses on a three day project in which I will have students break into groups of four to research different battles from the Civil War that we have not specifically learned about in class. Students will have different components of the battles to research (major leaders, troop movements, batlefield statistics, and significance of the battle) and will collaborate to form the information they gather into a presentation, which will be given in front of the class on the third day. For the technology piece, students will be expected to effectively use Google Slides/Weebly/something else creative and a SmartBoard to create an interactive presentation for the audience. As a formative assessment I plan on askikng students to give a short layout of the information they have gathered in bulletpoint form on the second day, just to make sure everyone is researching the assigned battle and gathering the appropriate information. The summative assessment will be the group presentation in front of the class on the third day.