Lesson Plan 1
Lesson Plan 1
Lesson Plan 1
Grade Level: 1st Grade Subject/Topic: Science (Living and Nonliving Things)
Group Size: This lesson could be used for an individual, small, or even large group.
Standards: Which Maine Learning Results, Common Core Standards, Next Generation Science
Standards or Provincial Standards do these objectives support?
1. Students will be able to ask and answer questions about living and nonliving things.
2. Students will be able to clarify their thinking and classifications on living and nonliving
things.
Objectives/Outcomes: What do you want the students to learn? (Observable & Measurable)
1. Students will know the difference between living and nonliving things.
1. 2 hula hoops
2. Living Things and Nonliving Things: A Compare and Contrast Book. by Kenin Kurtz
3. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p51FiPO2_kQ
I plan to begin my class by asking the students a question. “Are we living or nonliving?” (And so
on).
Then I plan to ask the kids what it means to be living? What makes something alive?
After recording the answers on the board, I will introduce to the kids what they will be learning.
(The target).
Procedures: How will the lesson develop or proceed? What steps will you follow? Include
questions you will ask and examples you will provide.
After reading the book I will ask kids the same questions I started the lesson on to see if they
could have more elaborate/correct answers.
I will also ask the kids to give me some examples and explain why they classified the object as
living or non living.
Assessment/Check for Understanding: How will you measure if the students have met the
lesson objective?
I will do this by watching the students during the hula hoop exercise and observing whether they
were able to put the living and nonliving items in the correct category.
I will also be paying attention to kids that are answering questions correctly and incorrectly to
see who and what topic needs improvement.
I will end the lesson with the video and begin tomorrow’s lesson with the same video and review
questions about this lesson.
It has activites tied into it for visual learners as well as hands on learners and those who would
rather just read. It gives a little bit of everything.