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EDUC2220 - Lesson Plan - Aidan Garling
EDUC2220 - Lesson Plan - Aidan Garling
AIDAN GARLING
First Grade/ Reading and Writing
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and
provide some sense of closure.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.5
With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers,
and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing,
including in collaboration with peers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.8
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from
provided sources to answer a question.
Lesson Summary:
Students will choose an animal to research and will answer prompted questions. They will then use online
resources as well as books from the library to research their animal to create a book and share what they have
learned.
Estimated Duration:
This lesson will be divided amongst multiple days, 6 in total, with about 70 minutes per day allotted for this
project. The zoo field trip will be included on one of those 6 days and will take longer than 70 minutes. There
will be two days for research, two days for writing, one day for the zoo trip, and one day to wrap up the project
and do a gallery walk.
Commentary:
Some students may not like to write which will make it difficult for some to stay motivated but hopefully the
trip to the zoo will cause these students to want to engaged with the project more. Using the internet to
research could cause students to become distracted or get off task by accesign sites that are for things other
than researching so checking in on their progress will be necessary.
Instructional Procedures:
Scoring Guidelines:
Assess how many students are familiar with they steps to writing a book and the process it takes to be an
author. From there you will be able to determine how much group instruction you will need to conduct versus
how much one-on-one time will need to be spent working with students.
Post-Assessment:
Asses students by reviewing their books as well as their daily time logs that will tell you how they used their
time each day.
Scoring Guidelines:
Pay attention to how students:
● Conducted their research
○ did they use online resources?
○ did they use hard copy materials?
○ did they use their time wisely?
● Assembled their books
○ did they present their topic?
○ did they share appropriate facts?
○ did they categorize things in a logical manner?
○ did they end with a sense of closer?
Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material:
To help struggling students you could as a class make a list of good online resources to use to find
information. Another way to help students who may be struggling more than others is to have a book that
already has a template created inside it so that all they have to do is find the information online and fill in the
blanks in the book.
Extension
This is a great website to use when researching your animals:
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/
This is a good worksheet for beginning research or continuing research at home
https://animalfactguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/worksheet_research.pdf
Interdisciplinary Connections
ART: During this lesson students will be creating a book about their animals and will be asked to design the
front cover for their book.
SCIENCE: Students will be exploring and researching their animals as if they were scientists conducting
research on a subject
** HISTORY: Some students may be researching animals that are going extinct and therefore might look into
their pasts to discover how they became endangered.
Materials and Resources:
For teachers A SMART board or a way to project a computer screen to the class to demonstrate
where and how to research their topics.
Worksheets for time logs, for recording information, and for to-do checklists to stay on
track.
folders
field journals
A sample book for students to look over.
field trip permission slips
Key Vocabulary
Search engine, online resources, internet safety, topic/ subject, informative writing, closure.
Additional Notes
For a trip to the zoo be sure to send home a permission slip with a page attached with information about the
trip as well as a way for parents to sign up to chaperone.