Samantha Hess

K. Suk
EDUC 230-02 Education Field Experience
Spring 2019
Formal Lesson Plan and Assessment Rationale Statement

Standard 6- Assessment:

The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own

growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.

(New Jersey Department of Education, 2014, pg. 8).

Artifact: Formal Lesson Plan and Assessment and Science Snowflake Lesson Plan

Date: April 25th, 2019

Course: EDUC 230-02 Education Field Experience and ECHD 185- Infant and Toddler

Programs

Rational Statement:

These artifacts are both formal science lessons for elementary aged students. One lesson

is a first-grade lesson about the life cycle of a plant. The second lesson is a kindergarten lesson

from a farm animals’ unit I created in my Infant and Toddler Programs course. This lesson is

specifically about cows and the process of how cows produce milk. I related these articles to

standard 6.i.5, “The teacher engages learners in multiple ways of demonstrating knowledge and

skill as part of the assessment process” (New Jersey Department of Education, 2014, pg. 8). In

both lessons the teacher has the students using different manipulatives and materials to complete

different activities in order to understand the knowledge and skills being presented. In the Plant
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lesson, the teacher uses a felt board with a thumbs up/thumbs down activity, worksheets, a real

plant and journals as different methods to teach the lesson. The cow lesson includes a factual

book about how cows make milk, having the students demonstrate how farmers milk a cow, a

cow milking activity and recall questions from the lesson to assess that the students successfully

grasped the lesson. The teacher uses these activities as a form of assessment to check if the

students understand the material and can demonstrate the skills and knowledge being taught

during these lessons.

These artifacts have taught me that a teacher can use different activities as different

methods of demonstrating knowledge for a lesson. Using different methods of teaching helps

students better understand the content. All students learn differently and including different

activities and materials in a lesson can help these students learn in different ways. The teacher

can also use these activities as assessments to see if the students are understanding the lesson.

I can use these artifacts as a future educator by using these lessons for science lessons.

They can get added into a future unit if they fit in properly. Even if I do not end up using these

lessons, they have shown me that I can come up with a multitude of demonstrations and

activities during a lesson to help my students better understand the content, and for myself to see

where students are throughout the lesson. I can informally assess their understanding through

these activities.

Reference:

New Jersey Department of Education. (2014, May 5). New Jersey Professional Standards for

Teachers Alignment with InTASC. Retrieved April 24, 2019, from

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https://www.state.nj.us/education/profdev/profstand/ProfStandardsforTeachersAlignmen

twithInTASC.pdf