WGU D091 Task 2: Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template with
Complete Solutions
General Information
Lesson Title: Diverse Dwellings of Native Utah Tribes
Subject(s): Social Studies, History, State History
Grade/Level/Setting: 4th Grade
Prerequisite Skills/Prior Knowledge:
Students will have learned previously that indigenous people populated the region now known as Utah prior to the
arrival of explorers and settlers.
Standards and Objectives
State/National Academic Standard(s):
UT Strand 1: NATIVE INNOVATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS
https://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=6400
Learning Objective(s):
Presented with various pictures of typical native dwellings, students will be able associate the
appropriate tribe with the pictured dwelling with 80% accuracy.
Materials Technology
Worksheet, pencil, power point, projector/display Teacher will use a PowerPoint presentation
because sharing images of native dwellings and
their associated tribes will help visual learners
internalize the material.
Language Demands
, Language Function(s):
The students will be evaluating images of native dwellings and determining which native tribes utilized them.
Vocabulary:
Dwelling, Native, Tribe, Explorer, Settler, Associate
Discourse and/or Syntax:
Discourse: Students will be asking and answering questions orally.
Syntax: Students will be writing on a worksheet, drawing lines to associate pairs of images and tribe
names.
Planned Language Supports:
The teacher will be explaining the constructions of each type of dwelling including materials, design and
method as well as rational behind the choices that lead to these selections while students listen and
respond to the teacher.
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks
Anticipatory Set:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
The teacher will ask the students to imagine Student will participate in class discussion
what kind of shelter they would build if they regarding what materials and methods they
lived in the high desert and why. would use and why.
Presentation Procedures for New Information and/or Modeling:
Complete Solutions
General Information
Lesson Title: Diverse Dwellings of Native Utah Tribes
Subject(s): Social Studies, History, State History
Grade/Level/Setting: 4th Grade
Prerequisite Skills/Prior Knowledge:
Students will have learned previously that indigenous people populated the region now known as Utah prior to the
arrival of explorers and settlers.
Standards and Objectives
State/National Academic Standard(s):
UT Strand 1: NATIVE INNOVATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS
https://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=6400
Learning Objective(s):
Presented with various pictures of typical native dwellings, students will be able associate the
appropriate tribe with the pictured dwelling with 80% accuracy.
Materials Technology
Worksheet, pencil, power point, projector/display Teacher will use a PowerPoint presentation
because sharing images of native dwellings and
their associated tribes will help visual learners
internalize the material.
Language Demands
, Language Function(s):
The students will be evaluating images of native dwellings and determining which native tribes utilized them.
Vocabulary:
Dwelling, Native, Tribe, Explorer, Settler, Associate
Discourse and/or Syntax:
Discourse: Students will be asking and answering questions orally.
Syntax: Students will be writing on a worksheet, drawing lines to associate pairs of images and tribe
names.
Planned Language Supports:
The teacher will be explaining the constructions of each type of dwelling including materials, design and
method as well as rational behind the choices that lead to these selections while students listen and
respond to the teacher.
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks
Anticipatory Set:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
The teacher will ask the students to imagine Student will participate in class discussion
what kind of shelter they would build if they regarding what materials and methods they
lived in the high desert and why. would use and why.
Presentation Procedures for New Information and/or Modeling:
