Using Explain Paper Lesson Plan for 12th Grade Example Students

Topic: using explain paper to understand academic papers

Objectives & Outcomes

• By the end of this lesson, students will be able to understand the importance of using explain paper to understand academic papers.

Materials

• Explain paper
• Academic paper for class discussion

Warm-up

• Ask students to share their experiences when reading academic papers. What do they normally do when facing difficulties in understanding the content?
• Encourage students to share their good habits in reading academic papers.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of explain paper and its purpose. Explain that explain paper is a tool to help us understand the main ideas and arguments in an academic paper.
• Provide examples of explain paper features, such as headings, subheadings and charts.
• Demonstrate how to use explain paper to understand an academic paper by using a sample paper.

Guided Practice:

• Provide students with an academic paper and have them use explain paper to understand it.
• Have students present their understandings to the class and facilitate a discussion on their main ideas and arguments.

Independent Practice:

• Have students choose an academic paper on a topic of interest and use explain paper to create a presentation on it.
• Encourage students to be creative and use the presentation software to enhance their understanding of the paper.

Closure:

• Have students present their presentations to the class.
• Ask students to reflect on how using explain paper helped them to understand the academic paper.

Assessment:

• Observe students during independent practice to see if they are able to use explain paper effectively to understand an academic paper.
• Evaluate their explain papers to assess their understanding of the academic paper.