Name: Katie Mattie Date: 10/4/07

Lesson Plan

Name: Katie Mattie Date: 10/4/07

Subject: Social Studies Grade Level: K Length of Session: 20 min.

Lesson Plan Title: Monkey

Content Standard:

Geography

3.0 Geography enables the students to see, understand and appreciate the web of relationships

between people, places, and environments. Students will use the knowledge, skills, and

understanding of concepts within the six essential elements of geography: world in spatial terms,

places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the uses of

geography.

Materials&Resources: My World Virtual Game

Monkey cut outs

Scissors

Glue or brass tacks

Paper

Monkey Maze Worksheet

PLANNING

Unit Goal(s):
K.3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and
technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
K.3.03 Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes
and maps.
Learning Objectives:
K.3.01.a. Explain what a globe and map represent.
K.3.01.b. Use personal directions such as up, down, left, right, near and far to describe relative
direction.
K.3.03.a. Identify the concept of physical features as in mountains, plains, hills, oceans, and
islands.
K.3.03.c. Describe personal connections to place, especially place as associated with immediate
surroundings.
Enduring Understandings:
CONCEPT(S):
·  Reinforcement of where the monkey lives.
·  The names of the continents.
·  The names of the oceans.
·  A monkey lives in Africa.
·  A monkey lives in the jungle.
·  A monkey loves to eat bananas.
·  A monkey’s physical features.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
·  What are the names of the continents and oceans?
·  What continent does the monkey live on?
·  What part of Africa does the monkey live in?
·  What does the monkey like to eat?
·  What are the physical aspects of the monkey?
·  What does the monkey like to do?

INSTRUCTION

INTROCUCTION or Anticipatory Set Time: 5 min.
Read the book “Me on the Map” by Joan Sweeney to give students a review and to help them recall what they discussed the previous day.
BODY (Activities & Practice)
Activities Time: 10 min.
1.  Students will play the My World Virtual Game.
2.  Students will cut out their monkey cutouts and put together the pieces to make their own monkey by gluing or tacking the pieces together.
CLOSURE: Time: 5 min.
Discuss with students about their monkey crafts. Ask students why they think the monkey likes to eat bananas and swing from vines.
Transition: Students will complete the Monkey Maze Worksheet.

ASSESSMENT

Evaluation:
Students will complete a monkey worksheet. Students will trace the letter “M” and the words “is for monkey.” Students will rewrite the sentence “M is for monkey” on the line provided.

References: http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider/games/game_my_world.html

http://www.dltk-kids.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/image/cpapermonkey.gif

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mpapermonkey.htm

http://twistynoodle.com/m-is-for-monkey-11-worksheet/