Amanda Sockow

EDMT 330
T/TH 11-12:15
Life on the Farm
Grade Level: Pre-K
Duration: 90 minutes
Technology: 1 Computer, a projector, and an Ipad.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmc
reate.htm
Standards:
METS:
o PK-2.CT.2. use digital resources (e.g., dictionaries,
encyclopedias, search engines, web sites) to solve
developmentally appropriate problems, with assistance
from teachers, parents, school media specialists, or
student partners.
o PK-2.RI.2. use digital resources (e.g., dictionaries,
encyclopedias, graphs, graphical organizers) to locate and
interpret information relating to a specific curricular topic,
with assistance from teachers, school library media
specialists, parents, or student partners
Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten:
o 4. Early Learning Expectation: Dramatic Play. Children show
how they feel, what they think, and what they are learning
through dramatic play.
o 1. Early Learning Expectation: Emergent Reading. Children
begin to understand written language read to them from a
variety of meaningful materials, use reading-like behaviors,
and make progress towards becoming conventional
readers.
o 2. Early Learning Expectation: Writing Skills. Children begin
to develop writing skills to communicate and express
themselves effectively for a variety of purposes.
o 5. Early Learning Expectation: Viewing Images and Other
Media Materials. Children begin to develop strategies that
assist them in viewing a variety of images and multimedia
materials effectively and critically.
o 6. Early Learning Expectation: Positive Attitudes about
Literacy. Children develop positive attitudes about
themselves as literate beings as readers, writers,
speakers, viewers, and listeners.

o 3. Early Learning Expectation: Research and Information

Literacy. With adult support and supervision, children
interact with developmentally appropriate Internet based
resources. With adult support, children use
developmentally appropriate digital resources to locate and
use information relating to a topic under study.
o 6. Early Learning Expectation: Fine Motor Development.
Children experience growth in fine motor development and
use small muscles to improve a variety of fine motor skills
both in structured and unstructured settings.
o 2. Early Learning Expectation: Living and Non-living Things.
Children show a beginning awareness of scientific
knowledge related to living and non-living things.
Goals:
PreK students will learn about different animals found on a farm.
PreK students will learn about different characteristics of animals
on the farm.
Objectives:
Students will be able to create their own farm using paint at the
art easel using a variety of different colored paint.
Students will be able to identify the different animals on a farm
using the Early Science app to sort animals into categories with
teacher guided assistance.
Students will be able to write their own farm story using a variety
of different tools create their story.
Students will be able to identify at least 3 different farm animals
using technology.
Materials:
Ipad
Projector
Computer
Dirt
Toy Tractors
Paint (Black, brown, pink, yellow, green, and red)
Paint Brushes
Easel
Crayons
Colored Pencils
Markers
Paper

Scissors
Glue
Construction Paper
Prop Box
o Stuffed animals (Pigs, goats, chickens, cows, sheep)
o Overalls
o Farmers hat
Red Barn play set
o People
o Animals
o Tractors

Anticipatory Set Activity: Big Red Barn by Margret Wise Brown and
animal powerpoint. Read the book Big Red Barn making sure to point
out characteristics about the animals in the story. After reading the
story show the powerpoint with the various types of farm animals and
have the children describe what they see and a little bit about each
animal based on the story.
Procedure:
Have 7 centers set up that the children can go to. When the children
go to each station, they will have to highlight their name on a piece of
paper when they finish an activity so that the teacher can see which
child went where and if they completed the activity.
Center 1: Computer. Children will be on the following website:
http://sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmgame.
htm
Children will be required to count the different animals on the website.
Center 2: Ipad. Students will use the Sorting for Early Science App.
They will be sorting animals based on whether they are farm animals
or not. The teacher will be at this table with the children to answer
questions and check for understanding. Students will be called up one
at a time to complete this activity.
Center 3: Sensory Table. There will be dirt in the sensory table with
tractors for the students to roll over the dirt. This will help to develop
fine motor skills.
Center 4: Easel. Students will be given red, black, pink, green, brown,
and yellow paint that they can use to create a farm scene.
Center 5: Drawing/Writing. Students will have crayons, colored pencils,
and markers available to draw a story about a farm. They will also add

writing and write about what they drew. There will also be scissors,
glue, and construction paper that the children can cut out and glue on
to the picture.
Center 6: Dramatic Play. Children will have a farm prop box that will
include stuffed animals (cows, pigs, chicks, and sheep), farmers hat,
and overalls.
Center 7: Floor Play. Children will have a red barn with people, tractors,
and farm animals to play with on the floor.

Child:

Rubric:
Center Number:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Complete: