ECOS Lesson Quality Check List

Created by Jennifer Woolf and Jeff Piotrowski

□ The material covered is within your current biology or ecology curriculum

□ The lesson’s appropriate grade level is stated

□ Background knowledge required by students is listed (Pre-teaching requirements)

□ Specific objectives

___ Academic- the exercise teaches a specific aspect of the current curriculum

___ Experimental- the exercise seeks to answer a question through hypothesis

testing

___ Technical- the exercise uses new equipment or measuring devices

___ Personal- students come up with their individual conclusions or presentations

___ Social- the lesson provides group interactions and inquiry

□ The context of the lesson is well explained to the instructor

□ The context of the material is explained to the student’s level

□ The lesson’s duration is outlined and within the instructor’s time frame

□ The materials needed are itemized

___ A list of item that can be used if primary materials not found is provided

□ The methods used are clearly explained

□ The lesson provides a motivation to the students to complete the exercise

□ The lesson encourages unguided inquiry

□ Students are asked to report their findings to the class or lead a mini-lesson

□ Students present they findings with graphs or pictures

□ The lesson includes optional material that may extend the duration

□ The exercise is easily scaled to different grade levels

□ An assessment plan is provided

□ Ideas for extensions and follow-up exercises are provided

□ Answers to questions posed in the exercise are provided for instructors

□ New vocabulary and terms are clearly defined for students and teachers in a separate section

Lesson plan quality check list

joe blow

2005-01-27

Josh Burnham

Samare inc.