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Lesson Templates

Introduction

An online lesson should have the following format:

Lesson Information:

  • A list of the Voluntary National Standards in Economics to which the online lesson relates.
  • Lesson objectives.
  • A short list of key economic concepts that the lesson will address.

The main body of the Online lesson:

The online lesson title:

Write a short paragraph here to introduce the lesson to the students. If there is a role or scenario involved (e.g., You are a detective trying to identify the mysterious poet.) then here is where you'll set the stage. If there's no motivational intro like that, use this section to provide a short advance organizer or overview. Set the stage and provide some background information for the learner. This should wet the appetite of the student to learn about the topic.

The task:

Describe crisply and clearly what the end result of the learners' activities will be. The task could be a: series of questions that must be answered, summary to be created, problem to be solved, position to be formulated and defended, creative work, or anything that requires the learners to process and transform the information they've gathered.

Information sources:

Use this space to point out places on the Internet (or physical resources in the classroom or material written specifically for the lesson. These resources could include spreadsheets, graphs, charts, and mini-essays) that will be available for the learners to use to accomplish the task. Embed the anchors within a description of each resource so that your learners know in advance what they're clicking on.

The process:

To accomplish the task, what steps should the learners go through? This would include questions about the information sources and other creative ways to use those sources. The sources can be mixed with the questions or the activity can be completed after students view all the sources. The students must do something.

Learning advice:

Here you would provide some guidance on how to organize the information gathered. This advice could include suggestions to use flowcharts, summary tables, concept maps, or other organizing structures. The advice could also take the form of a checklist of questions to analyze the information with, or things to notice or think about.

It's possible that the learning advice would flow best if merged in with the process description. If you're providing a lot of advice, or if the data gathering and analysis process has more than a few steps, it might be best to break Learning Advice out to a separate section.

Conclusion:

Put a couple of sentences here that summarize what they will have accomplished or learned by completing this lesson. You might also include some rhetorical questions that encourage them to extend their thinking into other content.

Evaluation activity:

Include several activities that should be used to evaluate the students understanding of the concepts presented through the lesson.