non-curricular micro-teaching lesson-plan

 

Non-Curricular Lesson Plan: Basic Rules and Principles of Chess

Main objective: Learn chess, generate interest in its complexity 

Materials: board and pieces, chess timer

Probe for prior knowledge: “Show of hands: how many of you know how to play chess already?” (If large majority… spend less time on Lesson pt. 1)

Introduction (~1 minute): Brief history of Chess

Objective: promote idea of its ubiquity and as a long standing “tradition”

    - Chaturanga in India 1500 years ago, developing into many different games

Lesson pt.1 (~2-3 minutes): Objective of the game, and how each piece moves

Objective: Student will learn to play on their own 

    - In small group, explain how to set up board, explain each piece as you go

Lesson pt.2 (~2-3 minutes): Basic principles, openings, “advanced” moves

Objective: introduce complexity of the game

    - center control, piece development, pawn structure, protecting the king
    - kings pawn and queens pawn, four knights game, French defense
    - “pawn special moves” and castling

Activity 1 (~2-3 minutes): Timed game

Objective: class participation, fun

    - 2 volunteers to play a timed game,
    - set up chess timer for 1-minute of total time for each player

if there's time....

Lesson pt. 3 (~2 minutes): Analyze final position of the game

    - ask class about the position of each players positions while considering the principles covered earlier
    - what might be some possible moves for whichever student was next?

Activity 2  (~1 minute): Analyze position of a specific game

 *allow for questions between each part of the lesson/activity