5/23/2013

Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template
Name: Miranda Britt
Lesson Title: WInd
Date:
Grade Level: Pre - School
Developmental Domain: Fine Motor, Cognitive
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Strand: Fine Motor Topic: Small Muscle, touch, grasp, reach, manipulate Standard: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and
wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements. Strand: Science Inquiry and Application Topic: Inquiry Standard Statement:
Record observations using words, pictures, charts, graphs, etc. Strand:CognitiveSkillsTopic:ProblemsolvingStandardStatement:Solve problems by planning
and carrying out a sequence of actions.
Pre-assessment of current knowledge:
Instructional Objectives (1-2)
One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
- Students will be able to
use creative and flexible
thinking to solve
problems.
- Students will be able to
record observations using
words, pictures, charts,
graphs, etc.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
- Students will be able to carry out
tasks, activities, projects or
experiences from beginning to
end.
Safety Considerations:
- No safety concerns

Assessment of Student Learning

Learning Experience

Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data

to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
- Observe and record through photographs what
students were able to successfully use the
materials together to build a weather vane.
- Observe and record on a on a check sheet

Academic Language:
- Weather Vane
- North
- South
- East
- West
- Northwest
- Northeast
- Southwest
- Southeast
Procedural steps:
- Teacher will have students come to the floor and
introduce the topic of wind by asking students what
they know about the wind based on their prior
knowledge.
- Teacher will then ask if the students think the wind
blows in one direction or if it blows in multiple
directions.
- Teacher will then review coordinate directions
(N,S,E,W)
- Teacher will then introduce students to the idea of a
weather vane and its purpose
- Show the children the materials we will be using and
ask how they think they can be used to create a
weather vane to determine the direction of the wind.
- Allow children to work together and with the
materials with adult supervision and help to build a
weather vane to place outside the classroom for the
class to use with their daily weather log

Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile

your evidence into a class or group view?)
- Students will use their weather vane to collect data
on the direction of the wind each day over the
course of five days, and compile that information
into a graph.

5/23/2013

Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on

materials.)
- Paper plate (Base)
- Drink Straw
- Pencil
- Stick pin
- Rocks
- Construction paper
Adult Roles:
- Supervisor
Resources & References:

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)
This lesson we completed again in groups of two or three. Students were taught the four cardinal directions and used them to label a whether vane they
created with adult supervision. The students were not as interested in the building of the whether vane as a majority of it required teacher assistance but they were
excited and engaged once they were brought outside to the courtyard to test the whether vane. At times when the wind was not strong enough to move the
whether vane, students would blow the arrow, making it move themselves. This demonstrates that they have an understanding that wind is a force and can make
things move; segwaying into our next lesson. We were also very please to see that even an hour or so after completing the lesson students demonstrated
comprehension, pointing out a whether vane on top of the flag pole by the playground and stating what direction the wind was blowing in.