EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan Template

Chelsie Thomson
Kindergarten/Language Arts

Common Core Standards:

KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. With prompting and support, ask and answer
Questions about key details in a text.
2. With prompting and support, retell familiar
Stories, including key details.
3. With prompting and support, identify
characters, settings, and major events in a story
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Ask and answer questions about unknown
Words in a text.
5. Recognize common types of texts (e.g.,
Storybooks, poems).
6. With prompting and support, name the author
and illustrator of a story and define the role of
each in telling the story
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
7. With prompting and support, describe the
relationship between illustrations and the story
in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a
Story an illustration depicts).

Lesson Summary:
In this lesson plans it is designed to work on key details in a text, being able to identify characters, settings,
seasons, and major events that happen throughout our lesson. This plan will help students become familiar
with the four seasons, and the concepts of weather. Students should be able to recognize the food and be able

to review it if necessary. Following composition students will be asked to brainstorm, compare, and contrast.
Students will use bulletin boards, crayons, markers, pencils, weather bulletin board pattern sheets to create an
imaginary town where odd things fall out of the sky.

Estimated Duration:
Four 25 minute class periods
One 15 minute class period
Commentary: To begin the lesson I will begin by asking students what their favorite food and season is. After
students begin telling me what they enjoy the most, I will read the story Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
To get my students engaged I will incorporate food, and visuals of different weather types, and show a visual
of an umbrella and ask my students what might be used in the town of Chewandswallow in our story and what
might be used in real life.

Instructional Procedures:
Day 1: To introduce the lesson to my classroom I will spend 25 minutes asking my students what their favorite
foods are, and discuss some of the different foods my class enjoys eating. As part of the lesson plan I will also
be asking my students what they know about the weather and how the weather can change. We will discuss the
different types of seasons, and when the seasons change, and what type of weather comes is associated with
the different seasons.
Day 2: I will spend 5 minutes recapping what my students and I talked about the day before dealing with the
different foods we like, and the different weather types we see and what season associate with them.
I will then take another 5 minutes to introduce the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and ask my
students what they believe the story will be about.
After introducing the book and hearing the students short input I will take 10 minutes to read the story aloud to
my students. Throughout the story I will ask different questions regarding the weather that happens in the
town.
After finishing the story I will take 5 minutes to ask my students some different questions. Such as how would
it be to really live in a town where food fell out of the sky? I will also ask students how this town is different
from our town. I will get the input on whether not my students would like living in a town like this.
Day 3: To begin the lesson plan activity I will take 10 minutes to recap the story with my students. I will recap
the story by showing students pictures out of the book, and going back over the questions that we covered the
day before about the differences, how they felt about the books, and what they liked and disliked.
I will then take 5 minutes to explain to the students that we are now going to list all of the characteristics that
are the same, and list all of the characteristics that are different about the our town and the town in the story.
We will then take the next 10 minutes calling on different students and listening to their ideas.
Day 4: The teacher will take 5 minutes recapping yesterday, and explain to the children that they are now
going be given a bulletin board, crayons, markers, glue, and different weather and food symbols cut outs and

they are to create an imaginary town where odd things fall out of the sky.
The students will then take the next 15 minutes to create their own town.
Day 5: As a class we will take 15 minutes sharing the towns the students have created amongst one another.

Pre-Assessment:
As part of the pre-assessment, it will be introduced in the introduction of this lesson. I will talk to my students
about the different seasons, and show different visuals and see which students can identify and which students
may need some help identify seasons.
As part of the pre-assessment I will also use visuals to see which of my students understand the difference
between the season, to understand which of my students understanding comparing and contrasting, and which
of my students may need more work understanding the concept.
Scoring Guidelines:
Scoring guideline for the pre-assessment will come from the activity that my students do for this lesson
plan. The activity for this lesson plan is for my students to make an imaginary town where odd things
fall out of the sky using different materials that I provide them. I will assess the work by seeing what
each of my students puts in their imaginary town, and distinguish if they understand between imaginary
and real.
Example: One students makes candy, and popcorn falling out of the sky in their imaginary town, as part
of my assessment I will understand that this student understood my instructions when I asked them to
make odd things fall out of an imaginary towns sky that the student creates.
Post-Assessment:
Post assessment will consist of my students taking homework home to complete outside of class with their
parents. The post assessment will consist of simple questions such as what was the story called we read in
class? What season is sunny? What Season is snowy? Does rain or candy fall out of the sky? What is
your favorite part in the story? This will help me as the teacher to better understand which students fully
understood the story, and the lesson applied to it.
Scoring Guidelines:
For the scoring of the post-assessment since I will be working with kindergarten age students will
students will not receive an actual grade or percentage, it will be based off of the students knowledge
off of what they know and do not know. Based off of my students who need a little more help I will
encourage parents to work with them on certain areas, and also send home and materials that can help
them in these areas, such as homework packets.
As long as my students attempted to do their posters everyone gets a grade.

Differentiated Instructional Support

If students are struggling with this activity I may pair them with someone who is accelerated at the activity and
would want to help a student create their own town. If a student stills struggles with the activity I would have
them do some on-on-one work, different worksheets that helps them distinguish between real and fiction. If my
students is struggling with understanding the seasons I would also present them with worksheet that help
understand the seasons, or allow them to do some different actives on the computer that allows them to work
on things dealing with the seasons, and also comparing and contrasting.
If students are accelerated in this lesson I can provide these students with an extra assignment, in the activity
the students are creating and imaginary town, for accelerated students after making their imaginary town, they
can make a real town based off of the town that they live in and put different materials on their poster that do
fall from the sky or are in the sky.

Extension
http://interactivesites.weebly.com/seasons--weather.html
This is a website for children ages k-5 that offers interactive educational games. Students can benefit from this
in many ways. This website offers games in every subject area, it also offers games in music, art, and typing,
and it helps students get a better understanding and allows them to practice. It can make learning fun for
students.

Homework Options and Home Connections

Different worksheets will be assigned to the students outside of the classroom. Worksheets dealing with
spelling words, sight words, and comparing and contrasting. If my parents have accesses to the internet at their
home I would ask them to give their children 20 minutes on the website above practicing in the different
subject areas each night.
Kindergarten is the grade preparing students with a lot of information to help them succeed in the next year,
and later years to come. I will encourage parent involvement by sending home homework packets to work on
with their children. I also will encourage involvement by letting parents know what areas their children need to
work on, and providing them with materials, or providing them with information where they can get the
material to help their student.

Interdisciplinary Connections
Since my students will be doing some comparing and contrasting between different objects such as food, I

could incorporate Science, and make a lesson on healthy eating. As a class we could talk about what is good
for our body and what is not good for our body. I will show different visuals and ask their opinion on whether
they believe it is healthy on not, and then explain the importance of a healthy life.
Materials and Resources:

For teachers

The book: Cloud With A Chance of Meatballs, my own created imaginary town,
visuals of the seasons and different foods, I can use the internet and smart board to
show these images.
The movie: Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For students

Poster board, crayons, markers, different cut outs of food, animals, and symbols of the
different seasons, glue, scissors, pencils

Key Vocabulary
Real, fake, town, seasons, weather, imaginary, winter, spring, fall, summer

Additional Notes
I implemented this lesson plan with my school agers at the daycare I work at, during one of their off days, it
worked out really well and they enjoyed it!