Lesson Plan Guide
Lesson Plan Guide
When you write a lesson, you must consider some key elements to ensure the
lesson plan is focused and designed to meet all your students' needs.
Author Salyer (2016) says that good teaching begins with a well-designed lesson
plan. Good lesson plans are vital for positive student learning outcomes.
There are three components that you should include in a lesson plan to ensure
that it is solid and effective:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The terminology has been recently updated to include the following six
levels of learning. These 6 levels can be used to structure the learning
objectives, lessons, and assessment.
1. Remembering: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from
long‐term memory.
2. Understanding: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages
through interpreting,
exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
3. Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure for executing or implementing.
4. Analyzing: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts
relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating,
organizing, and attributing.
5. Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through
checking and critiquing.
6. Creating: Combining elements to form a coherent or functional
whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating,
planning, or producing.
How Bloom’s works with learning outcomes?
Some of the verbs on the table below are associated with multiple Bloom’s
Taxonomy levels. These “multilevel-verbs” are actions that could apply to
different activities.
For example, you could have an outcome that states “At the end of this lesson,
students will be able to explain the difference between Fitness and Wellness.
This would be an understanding level objective. However, if you wanted the
students to be able to”….explain the inclusion of fitness and wellness into your
daily lifestyle for the purpose of improving your health conditions.” This would be
an analyzing level verb.
Just keep in mind that it is the skill, action or activity you need to teach using the
verb that determines the Bloom’s Taxonomy Level.
Steps Towards Writing Effective Learning Outcomes
2. Each outcome needs one verb. Either a student can master the objective, or
they fail to master it. If an outcome has two verbs (say, define and apply), what
happens if a student can define, but not apply? Are they demonstrating
mastery?
3. Ensure that the verbs in the course level outcomes are at least at the highest
Bloom’s Taxonomy as the highest lesson level outcomes that support
it. (Because we can’t verify, they can evaluate if our lessons only taught them
(and assessed) to define.)
4. Strive to keep all your learning outcomes measurable, clear and concise.
Bloom’s Level Key Verbs (keywords) Example Learning Objective
Create design, formulate, build, invent, create, compose, By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to design an
generate, derive, modify, develop. original homework problem dealing with the
principle of conservation of energy.
Evaluate choose, support, relate, determine, defend, judge, By the end of this lesson, the student
grade, compare, contrast, argue, justify, support, will be able to determine whether using conservation of energy
convince, select, evaluate. or conservation of momentum would be more
appropriate for solving a dynamics problem.
Analyze classify, break down, categorize, analyze, diagram, By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to differentiate
illustrate, criticize, simplify, associate. between potential and kinetic energy.
Apply calculate, predict, apply, solve, illustrate, use, By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to calculate
demonstrate, determine, model, perform, present the kinetic energy of a projectile.
Understand describe, explain, paraphrase, restate, give original By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to describe
examples of, summarize, contrast, interpret, Newton’s three laws of motion to in her/his own words
discuss.
Remember list, recite, outline, define, name, By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to recite
match, quote, recall, identify, label, recognize. Newton’s three laws of motion.
Mix Objectives
Mix
Objectives
For example:
Evaluate
Analyze
Apply
Understand
Remember
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