Teacher: Hunter Hall
Date: 11/18/20
Grade/ Subject: 7th Civics
Materials: Chromebooks, Canva
ITSE Standards:
ITSE 1: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and
demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences
ITSE 3: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct
knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves
and others.
ITSE 4: Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve
problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
ITSE 6: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of
purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
ITSE 7: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by
collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
Lesson Objectives: The students will work in groups of three to create an infographic detailing
one of the forms of government that we learned about during Civics this semester. This should
show how well they learned about the different forms of government.
Differentiation Strategies: Students who speak English as a second language are welcome to
create their work in their native language. I will run the words through a translator to see if it
makes sense. Students who cannot communicate through a digital medium can draw out the
assignment on a computer. Students who can do neither can talk to me about the assignment and
do a verbal assessment. If students need to take extra time for the assignment, then that will be
accommodated for. Each accommodation will be based on the student’s IEP/504 Plan.
Engagement: The teacher will introduce the idea of the students creating their own form of
government. The students will be sorted into groups of threes to make an infographic of their
own government. The students will want to ask themselves, “How would I create a
government?” 5 minutes.
Exploration: Students will be given the time to begin working on the assignment. They will be
discussing amongst their group before they start on the infographic. Big Idea questions will be,
“Why is this my favorite form of government?” “What do I like about this form of government?”
“What do I dislike about this form of government?” “How does my government work?” “Who
leads my government?” 10 minutes.
Explanation: Teachers will discuss with the students more in-depth concepts for the students to
explore with their infographic. The teacher will offer up several examples for the students to pick
from if they have not decided their own yet. Teachers will ask pointed questions about what the
students pick out such as “why did you like that one more than the other?” These questions are
meant to illicit a response from the students not lecture the students with more information. 10
minutes.
Elaboration: Students will make their posters and talk with the teacher as they make them.
During this discussion the students will think about what their executive (executive) branch of
the government will look like, how they will make laws (legislative), how will the people be
governed, how much say will the people have in government (autonomy/democracy), how will
the laws be enforced (judicial)? Vocabulary terms are in parenthesis. This is meant to make
students think about the role of the government in our daily lives. As part of society we must
conform to the rules and regulations as laid out by our governing bodies in order to reap the
benefits, so students should be thinking about what they think would be good rules and
regulations. 20 minutes
Evaluation: Students will be informally assessed during the course of the class as to their
understanding of the lesson. The teacher will utilize this informal assessment to help steer the
students in the correct direction or reaffirm student understanding. Students will also answer a
few questions when they submit their work online as a formal assessment. 5 minutes.
