TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
LESSON PLAN FORMAT
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Teacher Candidate: Mandy Tenanty
Subject: Science
Topic/Title: Plant & Animal Cells
SOL 5.5a
Objectives
What will your students know and be able to do as
a result of this lesson? Which standards are
targeted with this lesson?
Materials
What materials, texts, etc will you need for this
lesson? What technological resources (if any)
will you need
Procedures
Introductory Activities
 How will you capture the learner’s
attention and motivate them to be actively
engaged in learning?
 How will you activate prior knowledge?
Developmental Activities
 How will you organize the students for
instruction?
 What content do you plan to share with the
students? A brief, but detailed, outline of
the content should be included with the
plan. A statement such as “share with the
students information about oceans is not
sufficient.
Closing Activities
 How will you tie together the lesson and
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 TSW draw, label, and describe the essential parts
plant and animal cell
 Compare and contrast plant and animal cells and
identify their major parts and functions.
 Diagrams of plant and animal cells
 Overhead/transparencies
 Science interactive notebooks
 Colored pencils
 Smart board- Venn Diagram
 worksheets
 Start the class by showing a short video clip on p
and animal cells. The video is called “Plant and
Animal Cell Rap”
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?
video_id=125855 found on Teacher Tube.
 When taking notes and labeling cell part and
functions, direct instruction will be whole group.
will monitor the students by walking around the
classroom, ensuring that each student is labeling
parts correctly. There will be a notebook check a
we complete both cells.
 See below for daily activities and content.
 bring the lesson to a close?  I will end the lesson by posting a blank cell on th
overhead, pointing to each part, and asking the
students to tell me the part name and then the
function.

Accommodations for Individual Differences:  I will use videos to explain the cell parts.
How does this lesson accommodate individual  I will use visual diagrams of the cells.
differences in approaches to learning, create  I will provide many opportunities for students to
connections between subject matter and student the cell parts and describe functions.
experiences and/or include students with particular
learning differences or needs? How will you tie
together the lesson and bring the lesson to a
close?

Evaluation  Notebook checks to ensure parts of both cells are

How will you know what your students are able to labeled correctly.
do during and as a result of the lesson?  Worksheets on cell parts and functions
 Interactive labeling of cells

Day 1 to 3-
Introduction to plant and animal cells. Students will be asked what all living things are made of? All living
things are made of cells. The cell is the smallest part(structure) of a living thing that can carry out all the
life process (functions). What do we need in order to be able to see cells? ( a microscope). Animal and
plant cells are similar on that they each have a nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm, and vacuoles. Plant
cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts. They differ in shape- plant cells tend to be rectangular and animal
cells tend to be spherical and irregular.

The first cell we will learn about is the animal cell. I will draw an animal cell on the overhead. The
students will draw in their notebooks too. I will label each part and the function. (see attached for
content).

I will repeat the same steps for the plant cell. Students will need to know that the 2 cells have similar
parts, but the plant cell has 2 additional parts- a cell wall and chloroplasts. (see attached for content).

After we have drawn, labeled, and discussed the functions of plant and animal cells, we will complete a
Venn Diagram using the smart board to compare the two cells. Students will be given a blank Venn
diagram to complete as a whole group- put in their interactive notebooks.

Students will be given numerous assignments on cells. They will practice labeling the parts and
describing the cell functions in both plant and animal cells. (see attached).