My+UDL+Lesson

Creating this lesson was an interesting experience for me. For one I had to transition from a high school level of thinking to a primary education level of thinking. My group decided to use a 5th Grade Social Studies TEKS to create our project. The lesson that I developed was about the U.S. government, its three branches and the system of Checks and Balances. As I was thinking about how to create this lesson, it dawned on me that one of the best ways to illustrate the concept of Checks and Balances was to use the game of Rocks, Papers and Scissors. So I used this idea and incorporated the game into my introduction of the lesson. Through searching, I was able to find a worksheet that I could use as an assessment tool to check for student understanding.