Mr. Harms is a full time teacher and coach at Iowa Falls-Alden High School in Iowa Falls Iowa USA. Mr. Harms specializes in History Simulations and PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations. The goal is to produce higher order thinking lesson plans that engage students and help them learn concepts through multiple substantive conversations and experiences.
Mr. Harms is a full time teacher and coach at Iowa Falls-Alden High School in Iowa Falls Iowa USA. Mr. Harms specializes in History Simulations and PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations. The goal is to produce higher order thinking lesson plans that engage students and help them learn concepts through multiple substantive conversations and experiences.
Micro Lessons: I organized these lessons to increase engagement in my classroom by having smaller assignments in different formats. I thought this would help keep students engaged longer. What I didn’t expect was for it to make teaching more enjoyable for me. By breaking a lesson into 3-5 parts with different activities, teaching is more enjoyable. Students say the class period seems to go by fast!
Micro Lessons are 15-20 Minute partial lessons over smaller sections of a lesson.
File Types: (Power Point, Keynote)-Zip drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs
Materials Included:
Links will create copies on your Google Drive
Keynote/PowerPoints included in Zip File Download
Unit Guide: PDF with links
Lesson 10.1 The Byzantine Empire
10.1a Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.1b Individual Organizer
10.1c Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.1d Collective Organizer
10.1 Student Notes & Study Guide Video
Lesson 10.2 Early Russia
10.2a Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.2b Coggle Activity
10.2c Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.2d Collective Organizer
10.2 Student Notes & Study Guide Video
Lesson 10.3 Charlemagne Unites Germanic Kingdoms
10.3a Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.3b Individual Organizer
10.3c Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.3d Coggle Activity
10.3e Collective Organizer
10.3 Student Notes & Study Guide Video
Lesson 10.4 Feudalism & Manorialism
10.4a Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.4b Individual Organizer
10.4c Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.4 Student Notes & Study Guide Video
Lesson 10.5 Society in the Feudal Era
10.5a Collective Organizer
10.5b Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.5c Power Point/Keynote Presentations
10.5d Coggle Activity
10.5 Student Notes & Study Guide Video
PowerPoint/Keynote Presentation includes both Keynote and PowerPoints for that lesson and a Google Doc of the Presenter’s Notes, Higher Order Questions, Social Studies Concepts. Graphics and Animations that help students learn.
Google Docs and Google Sheets have links for you to create a copy of the document. Please respect the work and do not share those with others.
Individual Organizer (Google Sheets) Individual Graphic Organizer, Higher Order Questions, Social Studies Concepts
Collective Organizer (Google Sheets) Group Graphic Organizer, Higher Order Questions, Social Studies Concepts
Coggle: Free Mind Mapping program that allows students to organize their notes, concepts and links to more information.
Unit Guide: Micro Lesson Plan for the Unit; including: Main Idea for the lesson, Success Criteria, Social Studies Concepts & Explanations.
These materials were prepared by Harms LLC and have neither been developed, reviewed, nor endorsed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, publisher of the original World History Patterns of Interaction work on which this material is based.
Micro Lesson Keynote Video:
https://youtu.be/g8Buxf6L87o