Katherine

Kirk
EDU 250

Activity Plan #1

1) Objective: (what you want children to learn):
a) Students will learn about leafs changing in the fall.

2) Materials:
a) Mouse's First Fall by Lauren Thompson
b) Felt Board pieces.
c) Leaf Math Game
d) Big leafs to be painted
i) Q-tips
ii) Finger-paint
iii) Real Leafs
iv) Little brooms
v) Silk leaves
e) Magnifying glass
f) Real leaves

3) Scaffolding: (child's prior knowledge this activity is building on) 5 points
a) Students must have a prior knowledge of colors, shapes and seasons.
b) Whole Group
i) Gifted
(a) Book to Follow along
(b) Harder questions
ii) Intellectual Disability
(a) Felt board
(b) Repeating
(c) Easy questions.
iii) Attention Deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
(a) Helping with felt board
(b) Singing/dancing
iv) Hearing impairment
(a) Closet to teacher
(b) Felt board
v) Visual impartment
(a) Bigger book
(b) Closer to the teacher
vi) Physical disability
(a) Special chair
(b) Big book
vii) Speech delay
(a) Really pronounce words
c) Math Center
i) Gifted
(a) Higher numbers
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(b) Helping lower students
ii) Intellectual Disability
(a) Repeating
(b) One step direction/one problem at a time
(c) Matching
iii) Attention Deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
(a) Song,
(b) Finding/ like a treasure
iv) Hearing impairment
(a) Clear directions
(b) Visually showing
v) Visual impartment
(a) Showing them
(b) Clear Directions
vi) Physical disability
(a) Special chair
(b) Big book
(c) Guiding helping where needed.
vii) Speech delay
(a) Really pronounce words
d) Art Center
i) Gifted
(a) Draw a leaf
(b) Paint it using real leaf or q-tips
ii) Intellectual Disability
(a) Pre cut leaf
(b) Finger painting
iii) Attention Deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
(a) Paint on a ball,
(b) Use a one minute timer every time timer goes off do a jumping jack
iv) Hearing impairment
(a) Clear directions
(b) Visually showing
v) Visual impartment
(a) Showing them
(b) Clear Directions
vi) Physical disability
(a) Special chair
(b) Guiding helping where needed.
vii) Speech delay
(a) Really pronounce words
e) Science Center
i) Gifted
(a) Journal about
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
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(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Does it make a sound?
(v) Can you draw it?
ii) Intellectual Disability
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Does it make a sound?
(v) Leaf Print
iii) Attention Deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Does it make a sound?
(v) Leaf Print
iv) Hearing impairment
(a) Clear directions
(b) Visually showing
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Leaf Print
v) Visual impartment
(a) Showing them
(b) Clear Directions
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Does it make a sound?
(v) Leaf Print
vi) Physical disability
(a) Special chair
(b) Guiding helping where needed.
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Does it make a sound?
(v) Leaf print
vii) Speech delay
(a) Really pronounce words
(i) What do you see?
(ii) What does it smell like
(iii) What does it feel like?
(iv) Does it make a sound?
(v) Leaf print
f) Dramatic Play Center
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i) Gifted
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”
(i) Can you make a red, yellow, brown, orange only pile
ii) Intellectual Disability
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”
iii) Attention Deficit/ hyperactivity disorder
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”
iv) Hearing impairment
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”
v) Visual impartment
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”
vi) Physical disability
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”
(i) Help, guide as much as possible
vii) Speech delay
(a) Broom and leafs to “rake”

4) Procedure: (in detail - how to carry out the activity) 5 points
a) In my mind this lesson would come after a pervious day or two were
students were introduced to the concept of the season of fall.
i) Review what Fall is.
ii) Ask open ended questions
iii) Read Story.
iv) Teach kids Fall Leaf song plus dance moves:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MegL8wAdPBY
v) Centers
(1) Math Center
(2) Art Center
(3) Science
(4) Dramatic Play
5) DAP support: (page and short quote) 5 points
a) Page 113
i) “They thrive in environments that encourage them to experiment with
new materials, roles and ideas through various projects and especially
through play…”

6) Open ended questions for children: (questions to make a child think) 5
points
a) What is Fall?
b) Does it get warmer or colder in Fall?
c) What happens to leaves in Fall?
d) What colors leaves do you see in Fall?
e) What shapes do you see?
f) What do you noticed about these leaves?


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EDU 250
7) Do self evaluation after group critique
a) What would I change and why? 5 points

























b) What would I keep and why? 5 points