Basic

Productivity Tools (BPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Animal Categories
Content Area: Farm and Zoo Animals
Grade Level(s): Kindergarten
Content Standard Addressed:
ELAGSEKL5: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word
meanings.
a. Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories
represent.


Technology Standard Addressed:
3. Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative
artifacts and make
a. plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their
intellectual or creative pursuits.


Selected Technology Tool: PowerPoint

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration

Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation:
I will introduce students to a book called Big Red Barn by Margaret Wine Brown. I will have the class gathered
around on the carpet and begin reading to them. After each page, I will ask them what animals are on the
page. Then, we will discuss what animals are on a farm and what animals are at Zoos. I will have them go back
to their seat and pick out two animals that are found at the farm and describe the animal. Once they are
done, they act out the animal to the class and the class has to guess what animal they are. Each student acts
out two animals each. I will ask my students basic questions like: How do you know which animals are zoo
animals and which are farm animals? Each student will make their own e-book about their favorite farm
animal. They will choose one animal and make a PowerPoint of what that animal eats, where on a farm it
lives, and why they chose that animal. They will have a few days to complete this using the computer lab. It
will be graded based on completion and if they have covered the listed topics.

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