5/23/2013
Early Childhood Education
Name: Sharon Witzgall
Date: 4/16/18
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Make predictions
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: The students will previously be aware of the concept of a ramp and the knowledge that there are different sizes and
different angles.
Instructional Objectives (1-2)
One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
Differentiate the varying heights of
the ramps
Determine which height causes the
car to roll faster and why.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
TSWBAT add blocks to make the
ramp steeper and remove blocks
to make it less steep.
Safety Considerations:
Learning Experience Template
Lesson Title: Exploring gravity through ramps
Grade Level: Preschool Circle one:
Assessment of Student Learning
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
Record verbal responses from the students as to why the
car moved the way that it did, what the different angles
meant, and other information.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
Evidence will be compiled into a group view by doing a
quick review with the students as to what makes the items
fall at the rate that they did and be sure that all students
who participated gained some knowledge about gravity.
ECE PKSN
Learning Experience
Academic Language:
Gravity, angle, steep, add, remove
Procedural steps:
1. Teacher asks students what they know about ramps
2. Teacher uses an angled wooden block on top of a
smaller wooden block to create a ramp
3. Teacher demonstrates a toy car rolling down the
ramp by placing it at the top of the ramp and allowing
it to roll down.
4. Teacher encourages students to roll a car down the
ramp
5. Teacher asks the students what they think would
happen if we lowered the ramp (would it go faster or
slower)
6. Students give predictions, then perform experiment
by raising the ramp
7. Teacher asks students what happened when the
ramp was raised and what will happen if the ramp is
lowered
8. Students continue to roll cars down the ramp at
different speeds and angles
9. Teacher concludes lesson by explaining the concept
of gravity and providing the students with the
knowledge that something will be pulled to the earth,
or fall down.
 5/23/2013
Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Template

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

materials.)

Wooden blocks, hot wheel car

Adult Roles:

Assist in creating the original ramp and leveling the following

ramps

Resources & References:

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)
During this experience, I expected to be setting up the different heights for the ramps each time and having more control over the lesson. I was happily
surprised when a few of the students took it upon themselves to find other blocks to add to increase the angle of the ramp and even create a second ramp to have
“races.” The students were very interested in the speed of the cars and the concept of racing the cars down the ramp. When it comes to future instruction, if I do a
similar lesson, I plan on providing more materials so each student can make their own ramp. The students thoroughly enjoyed racing the cars down different
ramps, so I plan to allow that to be more present in the future. It was interesting to me what direction the students took the lesson, since it is always unpredictable.