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Module Four |
Activity Three: Process/Product Lesson Plan |
Lesson Plans
The multi-dimensional lesson plan is a natural extension of current lesson planning practices. It has been divided into three different steps to facilitate learning the process / product lesson planning idea. The first section of the plan is called the product portion. It is typical of current teacher planning. It may identify goal goal or objective, materials and procedures. It is shown as the first page.
Lesson Plan - Product Overlay |
Product Objectives: (abbreviated)Each student will
be able to label sandstone as a form of rock. |
| Process objectives - see next chart |
| Possible Thematic Goals Geological formations and how formed, proper use of tools, expressions of art and beauty, indigenous styles of carving, using the five senses, work of anthropologists |
| Materials - appropriate reading materials or research opportunities, small pieces of sandstone, carving tools, sandpaper, sample carvings |
| Sample procedures: Discuss geological formations in the Grand Canyon area. Review history of Native or indigenous people in other cultures and the carvings made out of stone or wood. Discuss hieroglyphs made by Native Americans in Arizona and New Mexico. Display and examine fetish necklaces that show animals cut out of stone. Extend the discussion to other cultures such as Inuit Indians (Eskimos) who carved animals out of bone. Have students pick out a stone and sit with it, look at it and hold it, then carry it around for the day. They "listen" to the stone and decide what animal it could resemble. Then they begin carving the stone into that shape. Assume a persona and attempt to "feel" the sandstone chosen for carving - the veins of material, the weak and tough parts of the stone-- even how it became the rock it now is.. |
| Implementation: Give each student an opportunity to select a piece of sandstone. When possible, go out to a site and go through this lesson immersed in geological formations and differing rock areas. Provide time to discuss rocks, look at them, explore the shapes and colors. Encourage them to carry the rock with them for a day. Provide tools for carving. If practical, have someone from the area come in and model the way he or she carves. |