SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas
Essential
Questions
PA/Common
Core/Standards

Clouds
Mr. Morder
Science/ Art, Music and Movement
2nd grade
One class 15-20 minutes
There are three different types of clouds.
Clouds are a part of weather.
What are the three different types of clouds
What do the three different types of clouds look like
look like?

7.2.3.B: Identify the basic physical process that

affects the physical characteristics of places and
regions.

9.1.3.A: Know and use the elements and principles of

each art form to create works in the arts and
humanities.

9.1.3.B: Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a

variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to
produce, review and revise original works in the arts.

Objective

Bloom's
Taxonomy

Students are able to identify the three types of clouds,

from imitating these things by dance/movement and
being able to clearly draw all 3.
Cooperation, Collaboration, movement.

Webb's Depth of
Knowledge
(DOK)
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence

ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning
Accommodation

Students will be observed and evaluated on their

participation in the class both individually and with
their peers
Students will be observed and evaluated on their
movement and sound effects of the corresponding
weather.
Students will be graded on their pictures and their
abilities to demonstrate understanding and correctness
of the clouds within their drawings.
Learning Skills
Collaboration
Communication
Life Skills
Social Skills
Literacy Skills
Ability to communicate the weather effectively
Students will have their own personal pictures of the

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different clouds.
Directions will be both oral and hard copy.
Directions for the story will be given in hard copy to
students with disability.
Some students will only be asked to draw one of the
clouds not all three.

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

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Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

Lesson
Procedure

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge
We will watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn3MhQawLpc

Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Before I start this activity I would show students picture
of the three different types of clouds and have them talk
to me about the differences they see.
Big Idea Statement
There are different types of clouds.
Clouds influence the weather and our surrounding
Essential Questions Statement
What are the three different types of clouds?
Objective Statement
Students are able to identify the three types of clouds,
draw them and act like them threw movement.

Transition
Act like a cloud and float from spot to spot.
Key Vocabulary
Clouds (Cumulus, Cirrus, and the Stratus), weather
PreAssessment of Students
I will have students draw a picture showing as many
different types of weather that they can think of.
Modeling of the Concept
Show them the dance that each cloud does.
Guiding the Practice
Dance along with the students doing each part and
helping individuals by motivating them to do the dance
and by correcting their movement.
Providing the Independent Practice
State the different kinds of clouds and let them do the
specific movements and dances.

Transition
Act like a cloud and float from spot to spot.

Reading
Photos & videos of the three different clouds.
Materials
Paper and colored penciled for the students drawing of
Technology
the different types of clouds picture.
Equipment
Fluffy dusters for the cirrus clouds
Supplies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn3MhQawLpc video

Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Students will write a story that shows all three types of
Learning/Master
clouds we learned about and shows a clear
y of the
understanding of those elements including pictures
Concept

Informal Evaluation
Students will be observed and evaluated on their
participation in the class both individually and with their
peers
Students will be observed and evaluated on their
movement and sound effects of the corresponding
weather.

Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning

Students will then be placed into groups of 3 and create a story about
the clouds. The story must include all three clouds. All of the group
members must be included in the story doing something while the
weather is occurring or being one of the clouds each. A title picture
should be included an include all three types of clouds.

Teacher
Self-reflection

Homework/Assignments
Students will keep a three-day journal where they write
about the clouds for three straight days and how its
affecting things around them. (Ex. Very cloudy, the sun
isnt shining through at all)