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Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Plan

Name: Audrey Lanzotti Lesson Title: Exploring our Sense of Touch Beyond Our Hands
Date: March 23, 2017 Grade Level: Pre-K Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):

CognitionandGeneralKnowledgeScience:Exploreobjects,materialsandeventsintheenvironment.

CognitionandGeneralKnowledgeScience:Describe,compare,sort,classify,andorder

LanguageandLiteracyListeningandSpeaking:Uselanguagetocommunicateinavarietyofwayswithotherstoshareobservations,ideasandexperiences;problemsolve,reason,
predictandseeknewinformation.

PhysicalWellBeingandMotorDevelopmentPhysicalWellBeing:Identifyanddescribethefunctionofbodyparts
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Two weeks prior the students had participated in a hook lesson revolving around the sense of touch and last week they
participated in a lesson that focused on using their sense of touch to make observations.

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

One/Two Assessed Instructional Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
Objective(s): The student will be to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and Touch, Skin, Texture, Smooth, Rough, Bumpy, Slippery
able to... skill?)
Procedural steps:

The student will be able to
describe how the different items
feel on their feet and understand
that the sense of touch extends
beyond just their hands.
The student will be able to touch
the objects on the papers and use
words to describe how they felt.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
One assessed developmental skill
will be language and literacy when
the students use vocabulary words
to describe how different materials
feel.
The teacher will take note of the description words that the
students use to describe what they are feeling. The teacher
will also collect the sheets of paper that have materials
glued to them with the students descriptions of the material
written on the paper.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
The teacher will create a checklist that contains the names
of each of the students present for the lesson and will check
off which students participated in the exploring of the
materials with their feet as well as which students were able
to give description words for the materials they felt on the
papers. This will give the teacher an understanding of
which students have grasped the concept at hand and
which students need further instruction.
1. The teacher will begin by reading the book Super
Senses and asking the students appropriate
questions throughout the read aloud.
2. The teacher will explain how our sense of touch
extends beyond just our hands and how wherever we
have skin; we will be able to feel different sensations
through our sense of touch.
3. The teacher will then instruct the students to take
their shoes and socks off.
4. The teacher will then lay out the bubble wrap on the
floor as well as the cotton balls, the feathers, and the
smooth pebbles.
5. The students will be instructed to walk on the bubble
wrap and describe how it feels on their feet.
6. Once they experience the feeling of the bubble wrap
on their feet, they will be asked to walk on the other
materials as well as the carpet and describe the
feeling of those items on their feet.
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7. The teacher will ask students to touch items that

Safety Considerations: have been glued onto pieces of paper and describe
how they feel and the teacher will write down their
It is important to monitor the description words on the paper.
students as they explore the 8. The teacher will end the lesson by asking the
different materials and ensure that students questions about what they felt and again
they are doing so in an appropriate explaining how the sense of touch extends beyond
and safe way. All items should be just our hands.
kept out of the students mouths at
all times. Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
materials.)

Paper, bubble wrap, feathers, smooth pebbles, cotton balls,

Super Senses book

Adult Roles:
The role of the adult is to come prepared with the necessary
materials. The adult also is responsible for reading aloud the
story and asking the students questions during. The adult
should provide instruction during the hands on part of the
activity as well as document the words that the students use
to describe the different materials they have felt.

Resources & References:

http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Birth-Through-Pre_K-Learning-and-Development-Stand

Book Super Senses by Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)

After implementing this lesson, I have learned that my students really like to engage in hands on activities and they are more likely to understand concepts when
they can actually see or experience them first hand. I believe opening the lesson by asking them to think back to the first lesson and what they learned about their
sense of touch as a way to refresh their memories on the topic was good because it allowed the students to call on their prior knowledge. I also believe that
reading the book before doing the hands on activity worked well because it gave the students the idea of what was going to be discussed in further detail during
the lesson. One thing that I learned about my students from this lesson is that they do not automatically understand a concept and they need to be exposed to
information continuously otherwise they will not retain the content. I realized that some of the students could not even remember what we had taught them in the
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lesson the week prior which told me that they need to continue to be exposed to content until they can master it. In terms of the organization of the lesson, there
was a point when the students began dumping out materials from the bag onto the floor without being instructed and some students even began to roll around on
the bubble wrap. While this was not anticipated, the point of the lesson was for the students to explore the sense of touch beyond their hands so I found it
appropriate for them to roll around on the materials and see how they felt on their backs. In the future, I would try to be more prepared for situations like this that
seem to become a little chaotic. Overall, I think this lesson went well and I think the students really enjoyed it and were able to understand the concept that we do
not only feel with our hands. This will inform future instruction because I will be sure to reference back to this lesson so that the students can recall their prior
knowledge and experiences before diving into a new lesson with a new concept.