Lesson 1

Objective:

After reading the book, The Most Magnificent Thing, and viewing the video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy3JCNBgb94) the preschoolers will each participate in
innovation time and explore whole toys, exhibiting 3 out of 4 good innovator practices, and participate
in charting discoveries of the toys in a DO-HAPPEN chart. 

Procedures:

1. Share the book, The Most Magnificent Thing, with the students.
2. Share the video of the book with the students.
3. Discuss the characters in the book.
4. Introduce Whole Toys
5. State the purpose of innovation time
6. Set task: Today we will explore whole toys. (Toys in the middle)
7. Name habit to practice: Good innovators play and explore, speak precisely, collaborate,
and imagine (chart)
8. Chart: What do you have to DO to make something HAPPEN? Do – happen
9. Open exploration time
10. Chart discoveries about the toys
11. Remind innovators to speak precisely 
12. Introduce imagine: Draw what you think is inside the toy

Assessment Plan:

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Lesson Objectives must have these four parts.

1. Audience – who is doing the lesson.

2. Behavior – what the student is expected to do.
3. Conditions – how will they accomplish the task – independently, as a small group, whole class.
 4. Criteria – to what degree will the student be successful.

Lesson 2
Objective:

After reading, Be a Maker, and viewing the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpYPEUJObQ0)

the preschoolers will each explore different tools and choose at least one to draw a sketch on, then
they will participate in charting a Venn diagram, choose a partner and participate in screw perspective
activity, draw a sketch of a screw, and participate in finding screws on different toys.

Procedures:

1. Share the book, Be A Maker, with the students.

2. Share the video of the book with the students.
3. Discuss the characters in the book.
4. Introduce Toys vs. Tools
5. Add notice carefully to the chart & discuss
6. Partner work: blindfolds and screws
7. Compare screws and introduce the word perspective 
8. Sketch a screw (remind that a good innovator is never finished, notice carefully)
9. Find screws on toys (chart number of screws found)
10. Introduce more on Toys vs. Tools
11. Set task: We will explore tools. (tools in the middle)
12. As you play and explore, think about the work the tool is used for
13. Chart: Tools and work they do
14. Sketch: choose a tool to do a careful sketch- Good innovators are never finished
15. Venn diagram- 3 tools on one side and 3 tools on the other. Sort. (use hula hoops, rope,
mat, etc.)

Assessment Plan:

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Lesson 3
Objective:

After reading, Inside the Suitcase, and viewing the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Bs5ChDHaCWo&t=263s) the preschoolers will each explore different parts of things and participate
in a group discussion to chart what they notice and wonder, then they will each sketch a part of the
“thing”, then they will participate as a group to walk around the school and find devices, and each
sketch at least 3 devices they notice around the school.

Procedures:

1. Share the book, Inside the Suitcase, with the students.

2. Share the video of the book with the students.
3. Discuss the characters in the book.
4. Introduce Parts vs. Whole
5. Set task: explore parts of things. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
6. Examples: rainbow blocks, parts of toys, Big Shot camera
7. Sketch a part
8. Introduce Devices
9. Set task: Today we will look for whole devices in our school
10. Go around the building and look for devices. Take pictures and sketch devices. Build on
do-happen
11. Share about devices found

Assessment Plan:

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 Lesson 4
Objective:

After reading, The Girl Who Thought in Pictures, and viewing the video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cEUBJaxkA) the preschoolers will work in partners to find a
way to make their light come on using 2 wires and then again using 3 wires, then they will make a
sketch of the circuit they created.

Procedures:

1. Share the book, The Girl Who Thought in Pictures, with the students.
2. Share the video of the book with the students.
3. Discuss the characters in the book.
4. Introduce Simple Circuits
5. Set task: Making a circuit
6. Introduce essential components: wires. Show the alligator clips and explore.
7. Partner work: two wires, battery pack, and light bulb. Find a way to make your light come
on.
8. How is electricity traveling? Trace the path. Speak precisely.
9. Show knife switch, but don't name it or show how it works.
10. Set task: Use a third wire to add this component to your circuit.
11. How does this new component work? What does it do?
12. Explicitly name the do components and the happen components 
13. Sketch: Make a sketch of your circuit

Assessment Plan:

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circuit they created. wires for wires for their light light and
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sketch. sketch.
 Lesson 5
Objective:

After reading, George’s Energy Adventure, and viewing the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=2ITY9vLhIiM) the preschoolers will participate as a group to make a chart and predictions, then
work in partners to test at least 4 different materials to see if they are insulators or conductors.

Procedures:

1. Share the book, George’s Energy Adventure, with the students.

2. Share the video of the book with the students.
3. Discuss the characters in the book.
4. Introduce Conductivity
5. Set task: Today we will not use switches. We will test materials to see if they are
conductors or insulators
6. Make a chart
7. Make a prediction before each test
8. Work with partners to test materials
9. Share

Assessment Plan:

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materials.