Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name: Alley Cooney Lesson Title: Let’s Explore Visual Art With Marbles!
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Date: March 3 2024 Grade Level:Preschool Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Approaches to Learning 1.c.5: Carries out tasks, activates, or experiences from beginning to end.

Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Physical Development and Wellness 1.b.6: Preforms tasks requiring precise movements by coordinating the use of hands, fingers,
and wrists to manipulate objects and tools.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: To assess the student’s prior knowledge on their ability to carry out tasks, I will provide them with a task and
observe how well they follow or don’t follow the task given. I will also observe how they use their hands and fingers when preforming these tasks and
how they move.

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
By the end of this lesson students
will be able to use unfamiliar
objects to create a picture.
By the end of this lesson students
will be able to create their own
unique piece of art.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
By the end of this lesson students
will be able to grow their fine motor
skills and understand what it
means to follow through with
carrying out a task.
Safety Considerations:
Use washable and non-toxic
paint
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Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and skill
To demonstrate students have met my objectives and skills
as evidence, I will collect their artwork at the end. I will also
take photos of the students as they are doing the activity and
creating their artwork. Another way I will collect evidence is
by writing anecdotal notes while I observe the students to
see if they have met the goals.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
I will compile my evidence into a class view through taking
their artwork I collected and hanging it around the
classroom for all to see. I will also make a checklist that will
help me see if the class was able to complete what was
being asked of them. If a number of students were
struggling with the same thing I will change the way I do it
next time so it’s easier to understand.
Differentiation:
To differentiate this activity for students who may need it, I
could have them finger paint instead or I could have them
use paintbrushes. I could even have them use q-tips to
keep with the idea of creating art with unfamiliar objects.
Academic Language:
-Marbles
-tray
-colors
-rolling
Procedural steps:
First, I will invite the students to the carpet area to join me for
a read aloud. This read aloud will involve a book about the
different kinds of colors that they will be using in the activity.
Next, I will encourage the students to go and engage in free
play. Then, I will invite the students over into groups of 3 and
introduce them to the activity that they will be doing for art. I
will provide each student with a tray and a piece of white
paper inside. I will then have 4 different colored paints in
small cups with marbles next to them. I will instruct the
students to dip a marble in one of the paints and place it in
their tray with the paper. Then I will instruct them to pick up
the tray and move it around, so the marble rolls around their
paper. I will then ask them to make sure that they keep the
marble on the paper so that the paint doesn’t get on the table.
I will encourage them to continue to do this with different
colors until they are happy with the art they have created.
Finally, once they are done, I will take their work out of the
tray and place it on the drying rack. I will then call the next
group of students over and repeat these steps until each
student has made their art creating with paint and marbles.
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Learning Experience Template

Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real-life, hands-on

materials.)
-white printer paper
-trays
-paint
-marbles
-book

Adult Roles: Sit with the students at the table and

observe them. Be available if they need help with the
task in any way.

Resources & References:

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future
instruction?)

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