Designing Hook Experiences

Name: _________________________________________ Classroom: ___________________

Lesson Overview: How do you anticipate the children will explore with the materials? What do
you think they will do? What COULD happen?

I think the students will be interested in the hook because we will be planning a picnic in home
center. I think they will begin brainstorming foods and materials needed for this picnic other
than what I placed on display.

Lesson Plan Objectives: what do I INTEND for the children to explore?

I intend for the children to explore filling the basket following the schema enclosing and enveloping and
filling It with the amount of foods that fit.

THE HOOK:
Roles/Responsibilities
● What are the CHILDREN doing? What is your explorable question? Ideally, children
should be able to loop back to this question in their exploration
○

Planning a picnic with friends.

● What is the TEACHER doing? How are you asking children to engage with the explorable
question? Write 3 ways to ask: how; what; where)
○ HOW: will you plan this picnic?
○ WHAT: will you bring?
○ WHERE: are you going to have the picnic?
● How are you DOCUMENTING? What tools are you using for documenting the
experience?
○ Taking photos
○ Taking notes
THE BAIT: basket, play foods, and a blanket
The NEW
● What is NEW about the experience? Is it the materials, the physical space, or
set-up of familiar materials?
The set-up of familiar products and knowing that they can “take it
somewhere” .

● Sketch it out–below sketch out what the experience will look like, highlighting the new
and the questions for each of the three experiences

EXPLORABLE QUESTION: How will they plan the picnic

Schemas anticipated: Enveloping and enclosing,

transportation, and transformation.
Below: At least 3 ways to stage the environment to discover more. Include materials, location, and questions for each.
1. Enveloping and enclosing
because they are filling a basket
with items to bring and have
limited space to pack food items.
2. Transformation because they
are pretending that maybe an
apron is actually the picnic
blanket.
3.
Transportation because they
have to carry materials to
designated location of choice to
have the picnic.
Reflection:

1. What part of this lesson experience went well?

The set up went well because the students were intrigued.

2. What part of this lesson experience surprised you?

I was surprised by how they categorized items they needed to bring like utensils and

beverages and so on.

3. If you could change anything, what would it be and why?

I would have selected different groups to join in the hook experience because some

loved it and extended there stay where other students could not join in.

4. Do you feel the children engaged with the experience as you expected?

I do think they engaged as expected but I assumed there would have been more

students involved but it got crowded in the home center leaving students to do other

things.

5. Provide photos or documentation from your lesson implementation.