Stating the Point of the Lesson
State the main idea of the lesson.
Expand it with no more than three essential
details.
Use this statement to keep your lesson
compact and focused.
If the lesson pattern
is predictable,
the students can concentrate
on the content.
Tell the student, in a few sentences, the essential skills or ideas that you will develop in the lesson.
This statement serves several purposes:
- It helps you keep the lesson tightly focused; if you have too many details to include in a few sentences, you’re probably overloading the lesson.
- It tells the student—right at the start—what to expect from the lesson.
- It gives the student a handy summary of the lesson, which aids memory and helps in reviewing the entire course.
In an elementary astronomy course, one lesson might explain why observers
on the earth see only one side of the moon. The writer might make
the following statement of the point of the lesson:
| From the earth, we can see only the “near side” of the moon.
As the moon circles us, it also spins on its axis. One circle and one spin take the same length of time. That equal timing keeps one side of the moon always toward us. |
Which of the following pieces of information belongs in the lesson that explains why observers on the earth see only one side of the moon?
No one on earth saw the far side of the moon until 1959, when the Soviet Lunik III spacecraft photographed it.
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