Megan Meyer

Elementary Lesson Plan

Author Megan Meyer
Title of Lesson Practice with Coding
Subject/Course Information Literacy
Grade Level 2nd Grade
Duration ~40 minutes
Model Curriculum Competencies  Recall information from past experience or
information provided to answer question and use
this information to write answer to question.
 With guidance and support, use digital tools to
produce and publish writing in collaboration with
peers.
 With prompting and support, demonstrate proper
etiquette while using and handling technology.
 Demonstrate proper care of technology and
equipment.
AASL Standards I.A.2. Leaners display curiosity and initiative by recalling
prior and background knowledge as context for new
meaning.
I.B.3. Learners engage with new knowledge by following
a process that includes generating products that illustrate
learning.
VI.A.1. Learners follow ethical and legal guidelines for
gathering and using information by responsibly applying
information, technology, and media to learning.
Instructional Objectives SWBAT:
 Identify the life cycle of a sunflower and arrange
the arrows to follow the life cycle before recording
themselves telling me the life cycle of a sunflower
Content Specific Vocabulary Coding – the process of assigning a code to something for
the purposes of classification or identification
Life Cycle – the series of changes in the life of an
organism
Programming – the action or process of writing
computer programs
Sequence – an arrangement of two or more things in a
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Materials/Resources/Equipment
Instructional Procedures
Formative Assessment
Assignment
successive order
 IPads
 Promethean Board
 SeeSaw
 Scratch Jr.
Greet students at the library doors.
 Have them sanitize their hands, and then sit in a
seat above a sit spot.
Introduce today’s lesson and activity.
 Life Cycle of a Sunflower Activity
 Have them get IPads
 Have them log into SeeSaw
 Go through the directions
o Drag the arrows and walk me through the
life cycle of a sunflower
o After that, record yourselves telling me the
life cycle of a sunflower
 If everyone finishes relatively early, then the
whole class can go through some of the basics of
Scratch Jr in order to start making some fun
projects.
o The Start Flag
o Add scenes
o Add characters
o Basic movements and sayings
End Class.
 Put IPads away.
 Line up.
Students will walk me through the correct order of the life
cycle of a sunflower using the arrows and they will also
tell me in a recording the correct order as well.
“Code” a pathway through the life cycle of a sunflower
and then record themselves telling me the order of the life
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Elementary Lesson Plan
cycle of a sunflower.
Accommodations Check-in with Owen that he can hear me and know what
he’s doing.