LESSON PLAN (1)
Student: Jane Cortinovis
Subject/Grade Level: Science/Kindergarten Date:April 29, 2011
Topic: Living Things
Title: Animal Identity
Time: 80 minutes
SOL/Objective: Students will speak, write, and cut and paste to identify animal characteristics, habitat, and classification using a graphic organizer and sentence frame.
Engagement:5 Minutes
The teacher will tell the students what the lesson will entail (reading an animal book, looking at particular animals, discussing their characteristics and show a completed graphic organizer (James Elwell and Stephanie Barber) detailing the animals. This will give the students the big picture (Mr. Almarode) about what the lesson will be about.
The teacher will share with the students the book: Curious George at the Zoo by H. A. Rey, and prime the students (MrAlmarode) by pointing out the panda, alligator, birds, and zebra; reminding the students that the lesson is going to be about these particular animals.
Exploration:20 Minutes
(Concrete to abstract: MrAlmarode) Pass around pictures of the animals: pandas, alligators, birds, and zebras to show and familiarize the students with the animals they will be working with.
The teacher will discuss animals and their characteristics, and habitats. For example, pandas are mammals (grouping), and live in forests (habitat). They eat bamboo leaves (food), and their coat is fur (covering). This will give the students the big picture (Mr. Almarode).
Explanation:20 Minutes
Using a visualizer the teacher will show each animal (panda, alligator, bird, and zebra) in its natural habitat and discuss each animal’s grouping (mammals, reptile, bird), their food (meat, insect, plants), and body covering (feathers, fur, scales).
Elaborate: 20 Minutes
The students will be given pictures of the animals, habitats, grouping, food, and coverings to cut out and arrange in order.The teacher will show the completed graphic organizer again discuss the different parts (James Elwell and Stephanie Barber). The teacher will show the students where to paste their pictures of the animals, habitats, groupings, food, and covering.
Evaluate: 15 Minutes
The students will choose an animal write a sentence using the sentence frame on the graphic organizer (James Elwell and Stephanie Barber).