Goals of the lesson plan:
- Introduce the Medieval time
- Discuss why castles were needed
- Discuss how castles were built
- Materials (how changed over time)
- castle within a castle
- Discuss why they stopped being effective and aren't used today.
- Have them build a castle individually or in groups.
- Take pictures and email them to parents that are interested in submitting them for the contest.
Material:
- Books related to castles and how they were built
- legos for building
I may also suggest to them that they all work on a walled town with a castle. My plan is to see what the children prefer to do and let the lesson plan change as needed.
This lesson plan went okay but not as well as I would have liked. Part of the cause was a lack of interest in the topic by some of the kids that were new. Also, some children were not willing to work with one another.
ReplyDeleteI let the children work alone or in groups of 2-3. I think next time I would do it with groups of 3-4 and would require that they draw a picture of the castle first to help guide them in their design. Also I would use a white board to draw parts of a castle as we discussed them to use as discussion points. I tried to do this with books about castles but it didn't work as well.