Manuel Ramirez #11

Quiet Clouds and Rowdy Rainfall

(1st Grade)
Undesirable Behavior: In a first-grade classroom, students are talking out of turn during science class.
This looks like speaking out, while others are talking including during instructional time, and talking off
topic. This interferes with learning because students get the whole class off topic which takes time
resulting in less time for instruction. In addition, talking during instruction means the students are not
hearing content instruction.
Expected Behavior: I will say “We are beginning science so be a Cool Quiet Cloud and raise your
hand before speaking. The expected behavior is for all students is to raise their hand before speaking
and also gain appropriate attention.
· Listen to the speaker
· Eyes on the speaker
· Wait until the speaker finishes speaking
· Raise hand when there is a question, answer, or have something to share
· Wait for the teacher to call on you and only contribute to current topic
Positive Reinforcements
1. Immediate R+: students who raise their hand to ask a question, answer, or share on topic and are
called on to speak, will get a raindrop cut out.
2. Ongoing R+: Once class earns 50 rain drops, they will earn 1 cloud and glue it to the Water Cycle
Bulletin Board. We will spend time exploring each stage of the water cycle for every cloud they get.
10 clouds will be earned in total.
3. Quiet Clouds and Rowdy Rainfall (overall R+): Quiet Clouds and Rowdy Rainfall activity.
4. Easy Administration of R+ I will have a jar with raindrop cutouts and after each time a student
performs the expected behavior, I will give them one raindrop while teaching. A couple of minutes
before the end of science students will walk to the Water Cycle Poster and staple the rain drop.
Interactive Learning Activity -
The class will watch a video of a rain storm and then paint it. After students finish painting the storm,
they will write about a time they experienced a rain storm.
· TEKS: 2.8 (C) Explore the processes in the water cycle, including evaporation, condensation,
precipitation, as connected to weather conditions. Each cloud we will explore a stage of the water cycle.
· TEKS 117.105 The student communicates ideas through original artwork using a variety of media
with appropriate skills. Students will paint a rainstorm after watching a video.
· TEKS 2.23 & 2.22 Oral and Written Conventions. Students will write or talk about a time they
experienced a rainstorm.
Teaching the Expected Behaviors:
Before the lesson, model by sitting in students chairs and raising your hand, have the students practice
raising their hands and have a brief discussion with the class about behaviors. We will also will read the
book My Mouth is a Volcano to introduce the topic of taking when it’s appropriate to talk.
Teaching the Plan: After discussing and modeling hand raising, I will tell students, whenever they raise
their hand, I call on them, and have a question, answer, or share on topic material they will receive a rain
drop and they are working towards a cloud. I will tell them once they receive 10 clouds, we will have a
Rowdy Rainfall Activity I will introduce the flow of the water cycle and explain the class must fill all the
raindrops in the evaporation section to move to the condensation and then precipitation and so on.
Some Options Might Be: Instead of working towards making clouds, the ongoing reinforcement could fit a
different subject like Math or English. One way to be inclusive in your classroom, consider having picture
instructions taped to student’s desks to remind them of the behavior steps as they are not very good
readers yet.
Demonstrate all Necessary Items - Water Cycle Bulletin Board, Raindrop Cut outs, Mason jars,
shaving cream, storm video, paint colors, paintbrushes, poster paper.