8th Grade Universal Design WWII Unit Lesson Plan — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

8th Grade Universal Design WWII Unit Lesson Plan

Name: Meiranda Patterson
Major: History
Hometown: Pleasant Prairie, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Name: Taylor Engle
Major: Education
Hometown: Kenosha, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Abstract

The goal of our course project was to create a 8^th Grade WWII Unit lesson plan that is universal in its design in order to teach all types of students with all types of learning and cognitive disabilities, while also creating a case study for a student with Asperger’s Syndrome. The lesson plan contains many different Universal Design elements that offer a wide range of activities and assignments that would benefit all types of students. Through researching elements and through our own personal experiences, we developed a lesson plan to best aid the student case studies and even beyond that to students in real classrooms that have disabilities that could benefit from a lesson plan as diverse as we tried to make ours. Even those without disabilities but have different learning styles; auditory, visual, etc., could benefit from this lesson plan. We feel that this lesson plan would offer a great deal of informational knowledge to all students and would not intimidate or deter any students from learning about WWII, but instead entice the students to learn in fun and creative ways.

Poster file