Intern Name: Georgia Hare

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic):

Grade: Kindergarten
Length of Lesson: 2 hours
Date Taught: April 26, 2018
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson students will learn about different animals and their habitats, and
Overview more in depth learning about the earthworm.

Life Process
K6 The students will investigate and understand basic needs and life processes
Standards of of plants and animals.
Learning a) Living things change as they grow, and they need food, water, and air to
survive
What are the different needs for different animals? What are the different
animals habitats?
Essential Questions

Students will be able to understand that all animals live differently from one
another, and can distinguish between them.
Objectives

I understand that animals have different ways of living.

Learning Target I understand different animals live in different habitats.
I can distinguish the differences of each habitat.
Necessary Prior Students need to know different types of animals, and basic writing and
listening skills.
Knowledge
Plastic bowl, dirt, news paper, cups, water, lettuce, a book on zoo animals,
Materials personal writing journals, a smart board, and a white board.

● Gather all of the kids onto the carpet, and read them “The Circus Ship”
by Chris Van Dusen.
● After reading the book ask the children to find the hidden animals in the
Introduction/Hook book.
● Once every animal is found, discuss the habitats of each animal.

1. Have the kids write and draw in their journals about their favorite animal
from the book.
2. Once complete gather the kids around the half circle table, and discuss
Instructional what they think earthworms habitats are like.
Activities & 3. Create the worms habitat.
a) Start with each kid adding dirt to the plastic bowl.
Strategies b) Then have each kid add newspaper, and another layer of dirt on top.
c) Then have each kid add lettuce, and another layer of dirt.
d) Next have each kid poor water on the dirt.
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 e) Repeat step a to d, until the bowl is full.

Key Vocabulary or Habitats, earthworms, animals, basic needs, life cycles, and survival.
Concepts
Once the habitat is finished, ask the children about what the worms need to
Assessments survive. Ask them other questions about what different animals need to be able
to live.
Have each kid present their journals from the book, and explain their picture
and why they chose the animal they chose.
Closure Activity

The kids who struggle with writing will get the extra help when completing
their journals. If some kids still don’t understand the concept of the life cycle
Accommodations and habitats, than talk with them separately to further explain.

The book will be provided by me, and the rest of the materials are provided by
my cooperating teacher.
Resources

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Georgia Hare
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): Ecosystems
Date of Lesson Taught: April 26, 2018
Cooperating Teacher & School
Grade: Mrs. Furst- Johnson at John B. Dye Elementary School
Time of Day: Afternoon

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
Mrs. Furst- Johnson provided me with the earthworm habitat idea, and I discussed with how I can present other
animals. She approved and like my idea of reading the book and writing in their journals.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
They allowed me to narrow down the choices of what to do for the lesson, and keep it focused on the topic at
hand, without distracting from creativity.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
When the kids wrote and presented their journals worked as anticipated, and they were very well behaved and
calm when creating the earthworms habitats.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

The kids got very excited about the book and finding the animals, which led to many interruptions. A few times
I had to remind them that they need to be quiet, and give others turns for the animals.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

Mrs. Furst- Johnson was very kind for providing me most of the materials needed for the lesson, which allowed
me to be well anticipated in general.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
The kids really got excited about what was being asked about the habitat of the different animals. I felt because
of this they answered all my questions, which was effective with helping me determine what they understood.

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of the
lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
The kids were interested and interactive with the lesson throughout. This made me think that the lesson was
really successful, because at the end they could mostly answer all my assessment questions.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
I feel that because both my cooperating teacher and I worked on the lesson, it allowed the lesson to become
very successful with what was being taught and how it was being taught.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
I would explain to them the rules for finding the animals better, because that caused a lot of distractions.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

I was very happy with how this lesson turned out, even if it seems like I was stressed in the
video, which I wasn’t.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)