Lesson Sketch for EDT 313 Investigation Hook Lesson

Individuals completing this plan: Jade Raad and Jackie Tonies

Lesson title: How Does Your Body Move? Investigation topic: How our Bodies Move

Early Learning and Development Content Standards:

1. Physical Well-Being and Motor Development: Motor Development: Large Muscle: Balance

and Coordination: Demonstrate locomotor skills with control, coordination, and balance during

active play.

2. Language and Literacy: Reading: Reading Comprehension: Actively engage in group reading

with purpose and understanding.

3. Language and Literacy: Listening and Speaking: Expressive Language: Use language to

communicate in a variety of ways with others to share observations, ideas, and experiences;

problem-solve, reason, predict, and seek new information.

Instructional Objectives:

1. The student will be able to use his or her large muscles to demonstrate different body

movements.

2. The student will be able to show he or she is engaged in the book by mimicking the body

movements read in the story.

3. The student will be able to recall different ways in which his or her body can move by telling

the teacher.

Experience:

First, one of us will read the book called Spunky Little Monkey by Bill Martin Jr. to the students.

We will make sure to keep the students engaged in the story by asking them questions throughout

the book and reading with enthusiasm in our voices. We will also keep the students engaged by
 asking them to mimic the body movements that are read in the story. After the book is read, we

will ask the students, How does your body move? For each answer that is given, we will write

it on a large piece of paper hanging up on the board in the front of the classroom for all the

students to see. After the students spend some time brainstorming different ways their bodies

can move, we will have the students stand up and demonstrate their answers as a group. Based

off their answers, we will be able to determine the students prior knowledge about different

ways the body can move. We will also gain a better understanding on their interest in different

body movements.

Assessments of Student Learning:

1. Data to be Collected: The data we will collect is the students answers to How does your body

move? and their demonstrations of the different body movements. We will also observe the

students while we are reading the book to them to see if they are able to mimic the body

movements that are read in the story. We also want to see if they are able to self-regulate, start

and stop their body movements at appropriate times.

2. Method Used to Record/Aggregate Data: We will take a picture of the students answers

written on the large piece of paper. We will also create a checklist that includes the three

objectives and the names of each student that participates in the lesson. On the checklist, we will

mark which students met all three objectives, which students met two out of the three objectives,

which students met one out of the three objectives, and which students did not meet any of the

objectives based on our observations during and after the lesson. See attached checklist.
3. Interpretation of Assessment Data: Based on the students answers and demonstrations, we

will be able to determine the class, as a whole, prior knowledge about different ways the body

can move.

Reflection on Lesson:
 We chose to teach this lesson because we wanted to see how much the students already

know about different ways the body can move. We chose to read Spunky Little Monkey by Bill

Martin Jr. because it is a developmentally appropriate book about a monkey who does not want

to get out of bed. This book is great because it got the students involved in more than just

listening to the story. Each move the monkey made in the story was repeated so the students

were able to join in and clap their hands, stomp their feet, and shake with the monkey. We

wanted to see if the students are able to use their large muscles to demonstrate various body

movements, start and stop body movements at appropriate times by mimicking the body

movements that are read in the book, and recall different ways the body can move after the book

is read.

The students seemed to enjoy and interact well with the book while it was being read to

them. All of the students actively participated during the story. After the story, the students were

able to remember the body movements from the story. As the students remembered the

movements, they were written on the board. The students were able to brainstorm ideas for

different ways the body moves and their suggestions, along with the movements from the book,

were written on the board for all to see. After the suggestions were given, the group participated

by repeating the movement that was just suggested. At the end of the lesson, the group sat down

and looked at the board to recap the different body movements they came up with.

From teaching this lesson, we learned which students are able to use their large muscles

to demonstrate different body movements, which students are able to mimic body movements

read to them in a story, and which students are able to recall different ways the body can move.

On the day we taught the lesson, there were only seven out of twelve students present. All seven

students were able to use their large muscles to demonstrate body movements and mimic body
movements that were read to them in a story. However, only four out of the seven students

present were able to recall different ways the body can move. We also learned that the students

have some knowledge about the human body, such as: humans have muscles, brains, veins,

lungs, bones, and blood in their bodies.

Overall, the students seemed to be interested in the topic of different ways the body can

move. It took some time to get suggestions of body movements out of the students. They

seemed to keep going back to the movements from the book. The students want to learn about

the muscles that are involved in brushing your teeth, eating, walking, and yoga and how muscles

work together to accomplish tasks. In our investigation, we plan to focus on muscles and how

muscles work together to make our bodies move. We plan to talk about what muscles look like

and how they expand and contract by relating that concept to how rubber bands expand and

contract. We also plan to talk about how muscles work together to help our bodies accomplish

tasks, such as: yoga, walking, running, kicking, and jumping. Throughout our lessons, we plan

to have the students demonstrate various body movements and recall what those body

movements are called. Looking forward, we plan to use the students interest on the topic to

discuss things they already know about the human body to expand their prior knowledge and

discover something new.