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Outline of Lesson Plan

Theme: Plants

Grade: 2^nd

Lesson Theme: Vocabulary, writing, math (mean mode, median)

Objectives:

·      The student will be able to use new vocabulary terms related to the theme of the lesson

·      The student will be able to identify the parts of a plant and write a small paragraph about it.

·      The students will take the plant quiz. The scores will be recorded and we use the scores to identify the mean median and mode.

Instructional technique:

·      Handouts on vocabulary with matching

·      Demonstration with a real flower

·      Journal entry on practicing paragraphs about plants

Instructional materials:

·      Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants_fs.shtml

·      Plant worksheet

·      Math Worksheet

·      Live plant

·      Journals

Theoretical Perspective:

This information is important to learn because students will be able to form a small paragraph off of the information on the plant using vocabulary. Vocabulary will help the students be familiar with material in the future so they can use previous knowledge to learn new information.

 It is crucial that kids learn at a young age how to write to help them in the long run with essays that have multiple paragraphs. They will be able to find simple math terms like mean mode and median with the scores that they tally up in the class. This information will introduce the basics of math and finding answers with many numbers. The students will be able to identify vocabulary words and match where they are on a diagram of a plant.

 

Procedure:

A.   Introductory Activity: Live plant demonstration

B.    Step by Step:

·      First the students will observe a live plant and guess what the parts of the plant are on the website activity using a worksheet along with it.

·      Then we will reveal what the parts are together with definitions after the students play with the activity online on how to grow a plant.

·      After, the students will write a short paragraph about a plant using the terms learned on the second worksheet.

·      Next, the students will take the quiz on the online module and record all of our scores.

·      Using all the individual scores from the class we will learn simple math averages

·      The math worksheet includes how to identify mode, mean, & median

C.    Concluding activity: Writing a journal entry on everything we learned.

D.   Adaptations:

Struggling students will:

·      Have a modification in writing only a few sentences rather than a paragraph

·      Have more simple numbers or less numbers to figure out mode mean etc.

·      Providing a reader

E.    Homework: Provide examples of what the math terms learned today mean in one small paragraph

F.    Evaluation:

·      The paragraph in journal/worksheet will have proper grammar and punctuation. It will be seven sentences long.

·      The plant worksheet will have proper definitions on the parts

·      The proper numbers will be listed next to the math terms.

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