STEPP Lesson Plan Form: Colorado State University College of Applied Human Sciences
STEPP Lesson Plan Form: Colorado State University College of Applied Human Sciences
Lesson: #8
Theme 1: Culture
Theme 2: Time, Continuity, and Change
Theme descriptions can be found at the following website: http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands
Understandings: (Big Ideas)
Students will understand the roots of Metal music and what two bands are coined with starting the term
metal within the 1970s.
Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable
questions from standard)
What two bands are coined with starting metal music, and how do we define the term metal music from the 1970s
standpoint.
Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)
Every student will be able to: Explain the Metal music form the 1970s.
I can: I can explain the two bands who are coined with starting metal music and what metal music from the 1970s
sounds like.
This means: This means I understand the fundamental changes within music during the 1970s that brought metal
music to the mainstream market.
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Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the
minute they arrive to the minute they
leave your classroom. Indicate the length
of each segment of the lesson. List actual
minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
-individual practice
-check for understanding
-other
Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
-Attendance
- Word wall (unguided student input)
-Lecture (teacher input)
- Individual poster (modeling, unguided practice)
- Class will finish with work time and the following day class will begin
with poster share out.
For closure of this lesson each student will be assigned a metal band
that either aided to the foundation of metal in the late 1960s or was
considered metal in the 1970s, and they will have to get basic facts
about the band and make a poster to share with the class the following
day. The poster should include things like:
Band Name
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Original Line up
Top Songs
Top Albums
Why are they considered Metal?
To modify this lesson some students will have the opportunity to make
posters within partners and can have an extended amount of time on
the poster if they need it.
The learning target will be assessed through the poster activity and
their ability to explain to the class what makes their band metal.
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