Ivana Salazar

Professor Christensen
Edu 201
March 28, 2016

Lesson Plan

A. Standards: Students will be learning about homeschooling and the laws that were made
for it.
1. Objectives: Students will be able to state what homeschooling is.
Students will be able to define what Blending Learning Program.
Students will be able to state a rule that was made for homeschool.
Students will be able to decide what state laws are important.

B. Materials/Equipment: PowerPoints
Assessment (on the last slide of the powerpoint)

C. Procedures:
● In the beginning I will be stating that we will be learning homeschool, the different types
of homeschool. And laws about homeschooling.
● I will have a powerpoint ready to show my students. On the first slide it says
“Homeschool”
● Second slide title is “What is homeschooling and how does it work”. On this slide I will
be talking about what it is and what you must do if you want to homeschool your child.
For example, to be able to homeschool your child you must “file a written notice of intent
to homeschool to the superintendent of your school district.” Also all states have different
regulation on homeschool but I will only be focusing on Nevada regulations.
● Third and fourth slides is about the types of homeschooling there are. There are four
types of homeschooling which are: Traditional Programs, Online Homeschooling
Programs, Blended Learning Programs, and Unschooling. Traditional Programs is when
parents keep the same structure as a school setting. The parents will buy the same things
as a teacher does for their classroom. Online homeschooling is when everything that a
child needs to learn is online. They take the quiz and the score comes in right away. They
also have Academic Advisor to help the parents and students. Blended programs is
Traditional programs and online homeschooling programs mixed together.
● The fifth and sixth slides is about the laws that were made for homeschooling. The laws
names are: New Jersey v. Massa, Null v. Board of Education, State vs Rivera, Battles v.
Anne Arundel County Board of Education, and Brunelle v. Lynn Public Schools. New
Jersey v. Massa is about this parents that fail to send their daughter to school. Null v.
Board of Education is about “If the child's composite test results for any single year for
English, grammar, reading, social studies, science and mathematics fall below the fortieth
 percentile on the selected tests, the person or persons providing home instruction shall
initiate a remedial program to foster achievement above that level. If, after one year, the
child's composite test results are not above the fortieth percentile level, home instruction
shall no longer satisfy the compulsory school attendance requirement exemption.” State
vs Rivera is about “homeschoolers in the state must submit course outlines and weekly
lesson plans, and provide the amount of time spent on areas of curriculum.” Battles v.
Anne Arundel County Board of Education is about “A Maryland law requiring the state’s
monitoring of homeschooling was upheld despite a parent’s claim that the state’s
curriculum promoted atheism, paganism, and evolution.” Last but not least Brunelle v.
Lynn Public Schools is about “Massachusetts court ruled that home visits by a local
superintendent were not a valid requirement for approval by schools officials of a
homeschooling program.”
● The seventh slide title is “Reasons parents use homeschooling”. Some of those reasons
are social reasons, academic reasons, family reasons and/or religious reasons.
● The eighth slide is where I wrote the assessment. I will read the question out loud and
will pick the student who raises their hand first.

D. Closure: The closure is answering the last question on the powerpoint. The last question is
“Do you believe these laws are important? Why?”. I am giving my students the chance to review
what we just learn and to let them make their own opinion about it. I want to find their reason on
why or why not it is important that these laws were made.

E. Assessment: My assessment is on the last slide of the powerpoint. There are five
questions: two true or false questions, a question, fill in the blank, and a question where they give
their own question. They should be able to answer the question since it is over what we just
learned.
F. References:
Kulp, Kimberly. How Does Homeschooling Work- Part I. Retrieved from
http://www.homeschoolacademy.com/blog/how-does-homeschooling-work-part-i/
Justia. Battles v. Anne Arundel County Bd. of Educ., 904 F. Supp. 471 (D. Md. 1995). Retrieved
from
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/904/471/1763042/
Justia. State v. Rivera. Retrieved from
http://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/supreme-court/1993/92-326-0.html
Leagle. NULL v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF COUNTY OF JACKSON. Retrieved from
http://www.leagle.com/decision/19931752815FSupp937_11600/NULL%20v.%20BOARD
%20OF%20EDUC.%20OF%20COUNTY%20OF%20JACKSON
Morris County Court, Law Division, New Jersey. STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff, V. Barbara
MASSA and Frank Massa, Defendants. App. No. 61-66. Retrieved from
http://www.enochnj.org/pdf/massa.pdf
Parkway, Forrest W. (2013). Becoming a Teacher 9th Edition. Washington State University:
Pearson.
Powerpoint
(https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10Zt6AbAVFDcLMmo2RdDpLEw92s8CQ5xwfh5X3fI
_cAk/edit#slide=id.p)