** answer this assignment for two students.

Share a Lesson Plan With Goals and Objectives

Write a Lesson Plan to Share

This week you will post a lesson plan in one of these three topics; safety, nutrition or health.

We should be introducing these topics in our classrooms regularly, and they may cover all kinds of information, from fire

safety, to growing or preparing food, to proper handwashing and many other topics.

Your textbook has many excellent lesson plans that you may share, or you may create your own lesson plan.

Look at the posts of your peers before you choose your lesson. I want to see original lessons, not the same lesson plan

posted by multiple students. If this happens, I will contact you to ask you to post a new lesson plan.

You will practice writing specific, observable and measurable objectives for your lesson. See the information in this

module on writing good objectives. Objectives are necessary for assessing the child’s learning.

Essential Components of a Preschool Lesson Plan

Regardless of the layout, a standard preschool lesson plan should include these key elements:

• Clear Objectives: Specific, measurable goals for what children will explore or learn (e.g., “identify three primary colors” or “practice turn-taking”).
• Theme: An overarching topic like “Insects,” “Community Helpers,” or “Seasons” to tie various activities together or a specific activity based on a topic– in this case related to health, safety or nutrition
• Materials List: A list of all supplies needed, such as books, art materials, or sensory bin items.
• Procedures/Activities: Step-by-step instructions for the lesson, including how to introduce the topic and manage the activity.
• A Curriculum Extension-another activity in a different curriculum area to extend the learning ( art, music, literature, etc.) The activity is related to the content of your original lesson.
• Assessment & Reflection: Informal methods to track progress (e.g., observations or checklists) and a space to note what worked or needs changing. In other words, how will you determine the child has met your objectives? After a lesson is completed with children, it is appropriate to reflect and consider what you might do differently next time you use this lesson plan.

Your posted lesson plan needs to have all the elements of a good lesson plan as listed above.

Example 1

Lesson Theme: Fire Safety

Purpose:
To help children identify signs of a fire and practice safety ways to get out of the house when there’s a fire, also the way to protect their bodies and keep them from getting burn and hurt.

Example: Learning Objectives (Observable and Measurable)

By the end of this activity, children will be able to:

1. Identify how to tell if there is a starting fire by smell or seeing smoke.
2. Stating why it is unsafe to play with matches, burning candles or lighters (all of these items can start a fire).
3. Demonstrate proper crawling down in the floor, staying low under smoke.
4. Describe ways to escape out of the house or school.
5. Drop and roll if the clothes are on fire.

Integration into the Safety Lesson Plan

During story and discussion time:

• “Clifford the Firehouse Dog” (by Norman Bridwell) It shows the fire safety rules to keep their bodies safe.
• Ask the children:
  • How can you tell if there’s a fire is starting?
  • What should you do if your clothes are on fire?
  • What is the plan to get out the house safely?

Creative follow-up:

• Students draw or act out how to get out of a fire safe. Paint big boxes with fire flames to make a tunnel and practice crawling down.
• Make a journal with children names and put a timer every time they practice fire safety when going in the tunnel, to see their success on getting out of a fire situation faster.

Example 2

Preschool Lesson Plan: 1 Sheep, 2 Sheep, and Sleep

Topic: Health

Clear Objectives:

Children will be able to:

-Identify 2-3 good habits they practice in their nightly routine (ex: washing their face, brushing teeth, etc.)

-Differentiate good and bad sleeping habits through a picture-based matching activity

-Explain why sleeping is important and how it affects our bodies

Theme: Sleep

Materials List:

-Book that talks about the importance of sleep altogether

-Scissors

-Colored Pencils

-Matching Activity Boards

-Zip-locs with picture cut-outs with different sleeping/nightly routine habits

-Computer in order to play educational song

Procedures/Activities:

-Pass out sheep cut-out worksheets for children to write and color for their nightly routine activities and share what they write with their table mates. After we are done discussing different bedtime activities, the children can take home their sheep cut-outs if they would like.

-Read a book explaining how getting a good night’s sleep is essential and going over how it keeps us energized the next day, helps us grow, and more.

-Introduce a matching card game for children to review what they learned from the book. Children will get one matching activity board and one zip-loc with the assorted matching cards per table. Children will work with their table mates to try to figure out and identify which habits are either good or bad for us and health. For example, the children would see a picture of a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste or watch TV while late at night and be asked to sort these cards in the good or bad bedtime habit sections of their boards.

Curriculum Extension:

-A catchy song that goes through the different steps/ways the children can go about practicing a healthy nightly routine.

Assessment:

-For one week, I will go on with the following lesson for the children. However, at the end of each day, I will show the students one photo from the matching game and ask the class whether its a good or bad sleeping habit and ask why that is to see if the lesson stuck with them.

Reflection:

-After completing the lesson, I would take the time to reflect and see whether or not the children grasped the different concepts from the lesson through the various activities and whether or not I could utilize them for future classes. Id also think back on whether or not the class seemed to enjoy doing these activities and whether or not they were easy enough to follow for their age. I would make any changes that I think would either make the lesson easier to understand for future reference or more enjoyable.

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