Name: Lucy Frey

Date: 18 March 2014 Content Standards(s):

Lesson Title: Becoming a Different Animal. Grade Level: Toddler (16-36 months)

Must be from at least 2 different content areas. Use no more than 2 standards. Domain: Language and Literacy Strand: Reading Topic: Reading Comprehension; Demonstrate an understanding of the meaning of stories and information in books. Domain: Physical Well-Being and Motor Development Strand: Physical Well-Being Topic: Physical Activity; Participate in active physical play and structured activities requiring spontaneous and instructed body movements.

Developmental Skill(s): Physical, Social, Language Instr. Objectives

No more than 2

Assessment of Student Learning Identify Evidence: What will you collect or record to
demonstrate students have met your objective/s?

Learning Experience Must include: Enough detail for someone else to teach the
lesson if you are not there. Include only authentic materials and minds-on-learning. Hook: Ask the students who has ever

Objective/s: The student will be able to... Answer questions orally (if they are old enough) or answer my questions through movement about animals in their habitats (if the students are too young). Reproduce the animals and their actions in the story through using their hands, legs, and facial expressions to act.

I will collect pictures of the students reproducing the animals actions in their habitats using their large motor skills. I will also collect a chart of how different children acted such as did they jump like a kangaroo or did they slither like a snake.

Aggregate/Compile Evidence: How will you aggregate or

compile your evidence into a class or group view?

I will compile how each student depicted the animal on a chart. If the students response was way off such as when reproducing a fish action the child hopped, I would mark this down as maybe the child did not understand that fish do not hop they swim in their habitat.

been to the zoo (have them raise their hand). Then tell the students that there are many different animals from different habitats within the zoo. Define what a habitat is: an environment where a group of animals live. Take out photos of animals from the zoo with attached photo of the habitat they live in and show them to the students. Next, introduce the students to the book Hello, My Baby by Tish Rabe. Explain to them that the book explains the different kinds of environments (habitats) such as the Galapagos Islands to the Australian Outback and the forests of India. As you read each page in the book, ask the students to reproduce the actions of the animals on the page. For example, ask the children how does the kangaroo move? Do this for every page in the book. You can also ask the children to mimic the faces of the animals such as making a fish face (the children can either answer aloud if they are older or they can act out the movement if they are younger). To close the lesson, ask the children to act like their favorite animal that was in the book. Then point out to the students that since many of them chose different animals they are all in different habitats and those that chose the same animals are in the same habitat.

Interpret the Evidence: What have you learned about your Modifications: One modification is if the child is unable to tell me how the animal moves then they can act it out.
students and your teaching and what are you going to do about it? This is part of your reflection after the lesson.

I learned that some of my students were on the shyer side when it came to acting out the animals during class. The students who were on the shyer side needed encouragement to act out the animals rather than those who were on the more social side. If I did not encourage my shy students, I would not have been able to see if they could complete my objectives. This will make me pay more attention to the shyer students in my classroom because maybe these students would have met my objectives during my more extroverted lesson plans if I would have encouraged them more.

What will the other adults in the room be doing? The other adults in the room will be taking pictures since the teacher will not be able to while reading the book. Another adult will be making a chart of how the other students acted out the animals in the book.

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