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I even require that my students to begin their lesson plans with the phrase “I want my students to understand…” 

Reasons are important!

I ask each student to complete these two sentences: 1. "I know about or understand"_______________________ 2. "I know how to"_________________________________ The students are told that these understanding and skills can be about anything, and not necessarily social studies, which is what I teach. Usually, students are comfortable expressing what they understand and know how to do when the context for doing so is not threatening. When they have finished writing the completions to the sentences, there is period when I ask each student to tell the class what it is they understand and know how to do. During the process, I question them about how they came to understand whatever they wrote and how they learned the skill they indicated. It is an interesting exercise.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted by Larry Ferlazzo on February 15, 2009 ON YOUR OWN Watch these movies and take the quizzes: Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X Learn about Rosa Parks. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Listen To Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech and find the mistakes. Watch this video of King Here’s another video about King.

Who Do You Think Are The Greatest Americans? Posted by Larry Ferlazzo on March 30, 2009 A television channel did a poll to find out who people thought were the Greatest Americans, and then ranked them from the most important to the one hundredth most important. Think about all the Americans we have studied so far.  Pick who you think are the top five Americans and rank them one-through-five.  Find a picture of them, write about what you think was their major accomplishment, and explain why you ranked them where you did.