Thematic Unit Planning Matrix- One daily/weekly lesson, 45 minutes, for 1 month: seasons of the year

Content
Focus Area
Area(Theme
):

Thematic
Questions/
Objectives

Centers

Technology
Assessment
Integration
and/or
(References, Rubric Scale
Software and/or
Resources)

Student
Products or
Portfolio
(end result)

Common Core or
PA Standards

Arts
Integration

Colors of
trees and
plants
throughout
the year

What different
colors do you
see outside
throughout the
year?
Integrate at
least 5 colors
into drawings
of one picture
per season.

Students get to
create trees for
each season of the
year with cutting
out, gluing, and
coloring paper and
other materials

Use computer
Rubric
and projector to
put pictures of
different seasons
on the board and
play music in the
background as
they work

Student finished
trees for each
season where
they used a cut
out of their hand
to make the
trunk and
branches and
then different
colors and
materials to
make leaves
look like they
would in that
season

3.3.K.A5
Record daily weather
conditions using
simple charts and
graphs, Identify
seasonal changes in
environment.
Distinguish between
types of precipitation.

Language
Arts

Poems
about
seasons

Do you want to
focus on one
season or all
the seasons?
Integrate at
least 2 poetic
elements into
poem.

Students get to look

at and read different
poems about
seasons and make
their own

Use computer
and projector to
put up example
poems on the
board

Students
finished poems
about the
different
seasons or an
individual
season

CC.1.4.K.B
Use a combination of
drawing, dictating,
and writing to focus
on one specific topic.

Rubric

Mathematics Counting
days in the
seasons

How many
days do you
think are in
each season?
Successfully
count the
number of days
in each
season.

Students get to use

different seasoned
themed
manipulatives to
count, spring
raindrops, summer
suns, fall leafs,
winter snowflakes

Science

How the
trees and
weather
change

What do you
think happens
to the trees
when the
seasons
change?
Have 4
different
drawings of
trees, one to
represent each
season.

Social
Studies

How
seasons
affect plants
around us

How do you
think the
seasons affect
plants around
us?
List at least 3
reasons the
seasons affect
plants

Season themed
number charts,
one for each
season

Assessment

Students will
have a written
down the
number of days
in each season.

CC.2.1.K.A.2
Apply one-to-one
correspondence to
count the number of
objects.

Students can make Read Sky tree

weather in a bottle book
to represent
different weather
from each season.
Students have
different materials to
represent different
seasons that they
can add with water
to a bottle

Rubric

Students will
have 4 different
drawings of
trees where
each drawing
represents a
different season.

3.3.K.A5
Record daily weather
conditions using
simple charts and
graphs, Identify
seasonal changes in
environment.
Distinguish between
types of precipitation.

Students can write

about how the
seasons affect the
plants around us
during each season
and how it changes
throughout the year

Rubric

Students will
have 3 or more
sentences about
how the seasons
affect the plants
around us.

3.3.K.A5
Record daily weather
conditions using
simple charts and
graphs, Identify
seasonal changes in
environment.
Distinguish between
types of precipitation.

Use computer
and project to
display sample
sentences to aid
the students