Phase 1 - Assessing Prior Knowledge

1. Assessing Prior Knowledge: If you were teaching this with the targeted grade level students
   • How would prior experience have been assessed?
   • Prior experience would have been assessed by possibly doing a KWL (know, want to know, learned) chart. Also, in my lesson I stated that we have reviewed each symbol and how to use maps. 
   • What would you expect to learn from assessing your students' prior knowledge?
   • I would expect to learn from assessing my students prior knowledge where they are at before this lesson, if they had none, little, or a lot of experience with my neighborhood map lesson.  
   • How would this information be useful in the planning process
   • Knowing my students knowledge of the subject before hand would help me know how basic or in depth I can start my lesson, so I will have to be really flexible when I am teaching my lesson.