This week my blog is about using the Alabama Learning
Exchange (ALEX) to locate and design a lesson plan. Once I created an account,
I was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer number of lesson plans available. ALEX
made searching for an interesting lesson plan easy. There were a variety of
lesson plans for my educational focus in social sciences. The ALEX website also
features a podcast library with hundreds of useful podcasts. ALEX also lets you
post your own podcasts and lesson plans to the site.
After spending time exploring the ALEX website, I found a
number of useful lesson plans. The lesson plan I chose was titled “From the
Trenches of WWI”. It is intended to help students gain a better understanding
of the soldier’s experience of trench warfare during WWI. The lesson plan
involved using first person literary and audio accounts to show the extreme
human experience of modern war.
The students would compose a letter to a loved one from
the perspective of a soldier engaged in trench warfare. Then the student would
record the letter in the form of a podcast. This would be an excellent exercise
that would reinforce what the student learned about the realities of trench
warfare. The ALEX website makes it incredibly easy to find and utilize lesson
plans for any classroom. Every educator should make use of this helpful tool.
Link to lesson plan: http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=22529
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