Lesson 3

Rationale: To learn the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog.

Overview:

Grade Level: 2^nd Grade

Subject: Science

Topic of Study: Life Cycles

Time Allotment: 1 hour

Standard: Strand 4 Concept 2 P.O 1 & 2 Learning about metamorphosis

Objective: Understand the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog.

Implementation:

Procedure: 1. Ask students what they know and want to learn about butterflies in a KWL chart. Call on students during this time and use pixie to write the chart out and have the students come up and write on the board.

2. Show the students the butterfly song.

3. Use the power point and then take the review on the power point as a class.

4. Review the stages and introduce the game for the students to play online and give them headphones.

5. Play the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

6.  Review the stages again in pixie and have the students make a craft for the assessment.

7. Bring back the KWL chart and see what the class knows about frogs and what they want to learn.

8. Play the frog life cycle song.

9. Introduce the topic through the power point and play the activity involved in the power point.

10. Review the stages and introduce the game for the frog lifecycle. Use head phones.

11. Play the frog and toad story and then have the students make a craft similar to the one the did for the butterfly.

12. At the end of the lesson bring the KWL chart back up and ask the class what they know now.

Technology integration: I will use pixie and have the student come up and write on it as well. The students will play online games. I will show the students songs and short stories with the use of you tube. Also I will have the use of power point twice in my lesson.

Differentiated instruction: Cognitive Delay: When making the craft I will have this type of student only make two stages of their choice.

Ells: Pair this student with a bilingual student and integrate their L1 into the lecture.

Gifted: This type of student will have to write a short story that goes along with their craft.

Assessment: Students will create two separate crafts by folding a piece of paper into four sections, writing 1-4 in each section, labeling each section as stages that the butterfly and the frog go through, and drawing each stage as well as coloring it. They will also need to write a sentence about each section below their drawing.

Materials and Resources:
1. Colored pencils

2. Pixie

3. Computers for games

4. Paper

5. Power point

6. Pencil

7. Head phones

Reflection: Assessing Prior Knowledge and Planning Instruction

1.     Students need to know how to use the computer to play the game as well as knowing how to draw and color.

2.     Before starting the lesson I will make sure to ask the students if they know how to use a computer.

3.     If all students know how to use computers I will continue my lesson as planned but if not, I will have a physical game the class can play that doesn’t involve the internet. If I have time I will teach those who don’t know how to use a computer.

4.     Students should be taught this at this level because they need to be old enough to learn that every living thing has a life cycle including themselves.

5.     The standard is to learn what metamorphosis is and the objective is to learn the metamorphosis of a butterfly and a frog.

6.     Towards the end of the school year so that the class has a chance to go outside and see butterflies.

Designing Instruction

1.     I am using a lot of repetition with this lesson plan so that the students in the classroom fully understand the concept I am trying to get across. I use repetition with the songs, power points, the games, and the craft the students will be doing.

2.     I believe that making things harder by having the gifted students write a short story will keep them on their toes and challenge them. By pairing an ELLs student with a bilingual student and helping them with context clues will help this student understand the lesson. The cognitive delay student will still be able to understand the lesson and material with a less difficult assessment.

3.     By having the students create their own project as an assessment. They will have higher order thinking because they will need to say the stages of a butterfly and frog as well as writing a sentence about the stge.

Planning Assessment

1.     The assessment requires the students to know the stages of metamorphosis and the standard is the know what metamorphosis is.

2.     The point of the lesson is for the students to learn the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog, and the assessment will let me know if each student knows the stages properly.

3.     By having the students write a sentence about each stage incorporates language arts into the lesson, which promotes a higher order of thinking for the students.

4.     The assessment will show me that the students either understand the stages of metamorphosis for a frog and a butterfly or not.

How does your lesson meet each of the standards?

1.     Students will be inspired to learn through the fun song about metamorphosis as well as the game they will be playing. Their creativity will be used when the make the assessment that is actually a craft.

2.     By playing the song online, playing the story off of youtube, playing the game, and using the power point.

3.     Through the use of the power points on metamorphosis that has fun activities at the end of each of them.

4.     1)At the end of the power points there is citations as to were the information was found to create the power points. I will explain to the students how it is important to never use someone else’s work without recognizing that they wrote it. 2) By making sure that each student understand the material by making it more challenging or by making it at a level that they will understand. 3) I will show the students how to use a computer and how to access the Internet to play the online game. 4) When I show the students the citations to the power points, I remind the students not to use other peoples work and if they do they must cite it.

Phase 2:

1  Instructional Decisions/Teaching (InTask Standard # 9): Discuss the implementation process and describe

◦                     What went well and what didn't go well during the implementation of your lesson?

◦                     1. What went well with my lesson was using different aspects such as songs, power points, games, and stories to teach the class. Also I ended right on time. What didn’t go well was how the sound on the computer wasn’t loud enough. I didn’t think to connect speakers to the computer until the lesson was in progress. Now I know to always take that into consideration.

◦                     How well was the alignment to objectives and standards maintained?

◦                     1. The standard had to do with metamorphosis and I covered the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog. The standard was maintained throughout the lesson.

◦                     Describe any modifications made during the implementation of the lesson

◦                     1. I wanted to end with the assessment but had a few minuets left over so I decided to have the class play the second part to the frog game that they ended up really liking.

2  Mechanics:

◦                     What technologies did I use (for the teacher and the learner)?

◦                     I used the power points, the songs, and the games, and the stories on the computer.

◦                     How were the technologies used (by whom and in what manner)?

◦                     1. During the games the students would take turns playing on the computer. We used one computer as a class. For the songs, stories, and the power points I was the only one touching the computer so that the students could just listen and learn.

◦                     My lesson was within the correct time frame

▪                                       It was short because…

▪                                       It was too long because…

▪                                       The lesson was within the correct time frame because... The frog game I used earlier had a second part to it that we played together as a class for the last three minuets.

3  Assessment of Learning (InTask Standard # 6): Refer to Assessing Student Learning

◦                     Include at least 2 digital artifacts that demonstrate what you or your students (peers) have created as a result of your lesson

◦                     Describe your students' level of success in achieving the standards and objectives for your lesson based on your assessment

◦                     1. Both students were successful in the assessments that were given for both the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog. I know this because they put each cycle in order and were able to name them as well as draw the correct picture.

◦                     Describe the level of success you had in teaching the lesson

▪                                       How do your individual reflections support this?

▪                                       1. Overall I did well I should have used head phones for the games and used pixie to draw the life cycles out.

▪                                       How do the comments from your classmates support this?

▪                                       1. They said I could have used head phones and pixie to make my lesson better.