Claflin University School of

Education
EDUC 450: Professional Clinical Practice
Reflective Lesson Plan Model
Name:

Rachel Troutman

Date: February 24, 2016

PART I: PLANNING
What is Soil?
Title of Lesson
Is this lesson original idea? If not, from what source did you borrow this lesson?

Source

The entirety of this lesson is my idea. However, elements of this lesson did come from
https://jr.brainpop.com/science/land/soil/.

Science
Subject Area (s)
First
Grade Level
Curriculum Standards

1.E.4A.1 Analyze and interpret data from observations and

measurements to compare the properties of Earth materials
(including rocks, soils, sand, and water).
Describe the lessons activities and content to provide a clear overview of the lesson.

Description and
Background Information

Lesson Objectives

The teacher will begin the lesson by asking the students What is soil.
The students will then watch the Brain Pop Jr. clip on different types of
soil. The teacher will stop the clip at different points to check for
understanding. The students will The students will gather a soil
sample. The students may need plastic spoons for this. They will be
given detailed instructions and then given a small cup to gather their
sample (They can do this during recess or the time designated for
science).The student will label and describe their soil sample. The
student will explain what they have found and then the teacher will
read Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin to close the lesson.
What will students be able to do at the conclusion of this lesson? Make sure that your
objective(s) are measurable.

The students will learn about the characteristics of the soil.

Varying Objectives for

Individuals Needs
(Differentiated Instruction-content;

How will you vary these objectives for students who do not understand the material?
How will you vary these objectives for students who have already mastered the concept?
How will you vary these objectives for students who are presently learning English?
The students who do not understand the material will be able to ask questions at the end
of the lesson. For students who have mastered the concept, there will be an opportunity

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Process; Product; or Environment)

Statement of Purpose

for them to help the students who do not understand the material. If there were students
in my classroom that were learning English as a second language, I would give them a
more simplified lesson with translation of the lesson.
Why is it important for the students to learn this content?
The students need to know properties of Earth materials (including rocks, soils, sand, and
water).

Materials and Resources

What materials and supplies are needed to help your students achieve the stated
objectives? What will the teacher need? What will the students need? What other
resources are needed? Will you use resource speakers?
I will need my flash drive. I will also need the Brain Pop Jr links, Diary of a Worm by
Doreen Cronin , and I will need the StarBoard and the document camera to complete my
lesson. The students will need small cups, plastic spoons, and pencils to complete their
work.

Anticipatory Set

What will you do to motivate the students and get their attention? What is the hook
that will serve as a focus for the lessons activities?
I will draw sticks at random to determine who answers the question: What is underneath
the grass outside?

Part II: IMPLEMENTATION

How will you find out what students already know about this topic?

Pre-assessment

The students will be asked, What is soil? Why is it important in our daily lives?
What will you do to show students what is expected?

Teacher Modeling or
Demonstration

The teacher will guide the students by showing them how to create a soil sample.
What will we do together as they learn how to succeed at the new task?

Guided Practice
Checking for
Understanding

The students will learn about the soil on Brain Pop Jr.
https://jr.brainpop.com/science/land/soil/ .
What questions will you ask to determine if students understand so far? What techniques
or strategies will be used to determine if students understand so far?
During various parts of the Brain Pop Jr video I will pause it and check for understanding.
What will students do by themselves to show that they have internalized the knowledge?

Independent Practice
Closure

The students will gather a soil sample. The students may need plastic spoons for this.
They will be given detailed instructions and then given a small cup to gather their sample
(They can do this during recess or the time designated for science).
How will you conclude the lesson and relate it to future experiences? How will you wrap
up the lesson to reinforce concepts taught during the lesson?
The students will explain what they found and then the teacher will read Diary of a Worm
by Doreen Cronin.
What will students do to demonstrate what they have learned?

Assessment

The assessment for this lesson will be a completed soil sample from each student.

(Give a description and attach

to lesson plan)
What can students do at home or in the classroom to apply the knowledge or skills? How

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Extension Activities

could you use your colleagues or community agencies to improve student performance?
The students may take the paper they collected off of their soil sample and show their
parents at home.

How will you use technology to assist students with learning the concepts? What technology will you
use to enhance the delivery and comprehension of your content?

Technology
Connection Across the
Curriculum

The starboard and document camera will be used to enhance my lesson.

How will you connect this lesson with other content areas across the curriculum? Include the other
content areas as well as the Arts, PE and Health.
Mathematics: The students will count all of the soil samples they have collected.
ELA: The students will write on their soil sample cup.
Social Studies: The students will talk about how important soil is to the worm community.
Arts: The students will see pictures in the book The Diary of a Worm.
PE: The students will walk around to find a good soil sample.
Health:The students will learn that the soil helps plants grow which help us breathe.

PART III: REFLECTION

Describe the strengths of your instructional techniques, strategies and classroom management.
Describe the strengths of student engagement.
This lesson was strong because I feel that it covers many content areas.

Strengths

Weaknesses
Suggestions for
Improvement

Describe the weaknesses of your instructional techniques, strategies and classroom management.
Describe the weaknesses of student engagement.
This lesson was weak because the students had some trouble getting soil samples without getting
dirty.
What would you change when teaching this lesson again?
I would leave more time for collecting soil samples.

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CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
REFLECTIVE LESSON PLAN MODEL RUBRIC
Candidate____________________________________ Title of Lesson ________________________________________________ Date: ________________

INTRODUCTION
(Title, Source, Subject
Area, Grade Level)
ACEI .1.0
NAEYC 1a
CURRICULUM
STANDARDS
2.1-2.7
NAEYC 4c
DESCRIPTION AND
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
ACEI 1.0; 3.1
NAEYC 1a
LESSON
OBJECTIVES
2.1-2.7
NAEYC 5c

Target
(5 Points)

Highly Acceptable
(4 Points)

Acceptable
(3 Points)

The candidate includes all

introductory components
and all components are
appropriate to the lesson

The candidate includes

most introductory
components that are
appropriate to the lesson

The candidate includes

some introductory
components that are
appropriate to the lesson

The candidate identifies all

appropriate standards for
the lesson.

The candidate identifies

some of the standards that
are appropriate for the
lesson.

The candidate describes

the lessons activities and
content in a detailed
manner.

The candidate describes

the lessons activities and
content in a manner that
provides a clear overview
of the lesson
The candidate includes
measurable performance
objectives, but objectives
are not clearly or concisely
written for the lesson

The candidate identifies

some appropriate
standards and some
inappropriate standards
for the lesson.
The candidate identifies
the lessons activities
and content but fails to
provide a clear overview
of the lesson
The candidate includes
clearly written
objectives that are not
measurable

The candidate includes

concise, clearly written,
measurable performance
objectives for all standards

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Moderately
Acceptable
(2 Points)
The candidate includes
only one introductory
component that is
appropriate to the
lesson
The candidate lists
standards, but standards
are inappropriate for the
lesson.
The candidate identifies
the lessons activities or
the lessons content

The candidate includes

objectives that are not
measurable or clearly
written

Unacceptable
(1 Point)
The candidate fails to
include the
Introductory
components

The candidate fails to

identify curriculum
standards.

The candidate fails to

identify the lessons
activities and content

The candidate fails to

include objectives for
the lesson

Score

DIFFERENTIATION
OF OBJECTIVES
ACEI 3.2
NAEYC 1b; 5c

STATEMENT OF
PURPOSE

The candidate varies all

objectives to promote rigor
and challenge for all
students, including diverse
students, , and identifies
teacher actions that
accommodate diverse
students needs

The candidate varies most

of the objectives to
promote rigor and a
challenge for all students,
including diverse students,
and identifies teacher
actions that accommodate
diverse students needs

The candidate varies

some of the objectives to
address diverse students
needs and includes some
teacher actions that
accommodate those
needs

The candidate does not

vary the objectives, but
the candidate identifies
teacher actions that
accommodate diverse
students needs.

The candidate fails to

differentiate objectives

The candidate clearly

explains the importance of
the content for the student.

The candidate
appropriately explains the
importance of the content
for the student, but more
information is needed.

The candidate makes an

adequate attempt to
explain the importance
of the content to for the
student.

The candidate does not

explain the relevance of
the content for the
student.

The candidate makes

no attempt to explain
the relevance of the
content for the student

The candidate provides

comprehensive lists of
lesson materials and
resources with
explanations of how they
will be used by the teacher
and students

The candidate provides

comprehensive lists of
lesson materials and
resources to be used by the
teacher and the students,
but no explanations

The candidate provides

lists of some of the
materials and resources
to be used by the teacher
and the students for the
lesson

The candidate provides

a list of lesson materials
and resources to be
used by the teacher or
the students, but not
both

The candidate fails to

provide a list of
materials and resources
for the lesson

The candidate clearly

describes a well-organized
student centered lesson
that reflects all
organizational issues: preassessment, motivation
(anticipatory set), purpose,
modeling/demonstration,
guided and independent
practice, closure, extension
activities and other
instructional strategies.
The lesson plan reflects
differentiated instruction

The candidate clearly

describes a studentcentered lesson that
reflects most of the
organizational issues:
pre-assessment,
motivation, purpose,
modeling/demonstration,
guided and independent
practice, closure,
extension activities and
other instructional
strategies. The lesson plan
reflects differentiated
instruction

The candidate clearly

describes a studentcentered lesson that
contains few of the
organizational issues,
and addresses some
differentiated
instruction.

The candidate describes

a lesson that is
somewhat studentcentered with few of the
organizational issues,
with no differentiated
instruction

The candidate
describes an ill-planned
lesson that is not
student-centered or the
candidate fails to
describe the lesson

NAEYC 5c

MATERIALS AND
RESOURCES
ACEI 1.0
NAEYC 4b

LESSON DESIGN
ACEI 3.1-3.5
NAEYC 4b

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The candidate includes

assessments within the
plan which correlate to
the objectives and the
lesson, but does not
describe or attach the
assessment.
The candidate lists and
describes strategies/
techniques, but does not
list any questions

The candidate includes

assessments within the
plan that do not
correlate to the
objectives and the
lesson.

The candidate fails to

include and/or attach
the assessment(s).

The candidate lists

questions, but fails to
describe or list
strategies and
techniques

The candidate does not

list or describe any
strategies/techniques or
asks questions to check
for understanding

The candidate
meaningfully incorporates
and describes teacher used
technology in the lesson

The candidate
incorporates and
describes technology in
the lesson in superficial
ways.

The candidate
incorporates technology
in the lesson in
superficial ways;
candidate does not
describe the use of
technology

The candidate fails to

address the issue of
technology

The candidate
demonstrates a high level
of competence in spelling,
grammar and typing

The candidate
demonstrates competence
in spelling, grammar and
typing, but exhibits few
errors

The candidate
demonstrates sufficient
competence in spelling,
grammar and typing, but
exhibits several errors

The candidate
demonstrates little
competence in spelling,
grammar and typing,
through many errors

The candidate
demonstrates little
competence in spelling,
grammar and typing
through a significant
number of errors

EXTENSION
ACTIVITIES
ACEI 5.3-5.4
NAEYC 4c

The candidate provides

more than one extension
activity to connect the
lesson with the home,
community and
community agencies

The candidate provides at

least one extension activity
to connect the lesson with
the home and community,
but not community
agencies

The candidate provides

extension activities that
connect the home, but
not the community and
community agencies

The candidate provides

extension activities that
do not connect the
home, community and
community agencies

The candidate fails to

provide extension
activities

CONNECTION
ACROSS THE
CURRICULUM
ACEI 2.8

The candidate includes

connections to all of the
curriculum content areas
during the lesson.

The candidate includes

connections to at least 5 of
the 7 curriculum areas in
the lesson

The candidate includes

connections to the four
core content areas in the
lesson

The candidate connects

the lesson to at least
two curriculum content
areas

The candidate fails to

connect the lesson to
other curriculum
content areas

KEY ASSESSMENTS
ACEI 4.0
NAEYC 3b-c

CHECKING FOR
UNDERSTANDING
ACEI 3.1-3.5
NAEYC 5c

TECHNOLOGY
ACEI 3.1-3.5
NAEYC 4b

PRESENTATIONS &
CONVENTIONS
ACEI 5.1
NAEYC 6b

The candidate describes

specific assessments that
correlate to all of the
objectives and lesson or
attaches the assessment.

The candidate describes

assessments that correlate
to some of the objectives
and the lesson and/ or
attaches the assessment.

The candidate describes

and lists specific strategies
and techniques and/or lists
questions to be asked to
check for understanding

The candidate describes

and lists several strategies/
techniques and questions
to be asked to check for
understanding

The candidate
meaningfully incorporates
and describes student used
technology in the lesson or
explains why technology
cannot be meaningfully
incorporated

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NAEYC 5c

REFLECTIONS
ACEI 5.1
NAEYC 4d

The candidate provides

thorough information that
shows an understanding of
the effectiveness and
ineffectiveness of the
lesson; gives information
regarding changes for
future implementation of
the lesson

The candidate somewhat

provides information that
shows an understanding of
the effectiveness of the
lesson; gives information
regarding changes for
future implementation of
the lesson

The candidate provides

information regarding
the effectiveness and
ineffectiveness of the
lesson, but gives no
information regarding
future implementation

T OT A L
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The candidate provides

superficial information
regarding the
effectiveness and the
ineffectiveness of the
lesson, and gives no
information regarding
future implementation
of the lesson.

The candidate fails to

provide information
regarding reflections
from the
implementation of the
lesson