Elizabeth Walko

My SIOP lesson was a 7

th
-9
th
grade lesson on animals as consumers. My
objectives were that the student ill be able to identify and understand the
differences between a carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore, and that the students will
be able to characterize animals by what they eat, by sorting pictures of animals into
the three separate categories carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore. These objectives
were achieved; I know this because throughout the lesson Taralyn was able to
distinguish between these three types of animals as she participated in the Smart
board interactive activities. Also Taralyn successful completed our assessment,
which was to categorize pictures of animals into the correct section.
When it came to challenging Taralyn, I am not sure we were completely
successful. Ally and I both agreed that Taralyn was not challenged during the lesson.
I found this surprising because the smart board lesson and the material was
supposed to be taught at the 7
th
grade level. However the one part of the lesson that
was a bit challenging to Taralyn was actually categorizing the animals. In other
words she knew exactly what being a carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore were, and
what they ate but it was slightly difficult for her to know and use prior knowledge to
figure out which animals feel into each group.
There was one part of the lesson I felt as though was easy and that was some
of the smart board instruction, when Ally and I ask Taralyn what it meant for
animals to be carnivores, herbivore, and omnivores she already knew before
instruction, therefore when it came to that part of the instruction, she knew and
completed the activity with ease.
I dont know how much I would have changed for an actual ELL student
because I felt as though this lesson was very visual and hands on which I think
would be extremely beneficial to an ELL student. The content of the lesson was
labeled and accompanied by visuals for the entire length of the lesson, however for
our assessment when the students would categorize the pictures of the animals, it
would be helpful for the ELL student to have the categories on a work sheet, with
several boxes under each name, therefore the students would know how many
pictures would go under each name.
Overall I thought the lesson went very well, but Taralyn is very smart and
was not totally challenged by this topic.