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Dr. Shadman
Geology 3
Monday/Wednesday 10:40am-12:00pm
Fall 2011
Grade: Kindergarten
Lesson Summary:
Introduce the four seasons to the students. Talk about each one in detail.
Then the students will follow oral, step by step, directions on creating a
Seasonal Tree Mobile. They will identify what the tree looks like during each
season. Does it have leaves? If it does what color are they? What is on the
ground during this season? What happens with the weather?
Key Concepts:
Summer: The season where the trees are filled with leaves usually
green and it is very hot outside. There is no school and we can go
swimming or to the beach.
Fall: The season where the trees leaves are changing color and falling
off. Leaves change from green to orange, yellow, brown, and red. It is
very windy. We can jump in a pile of leaves. Pumpkins are ready to be
picked.
Winter: The season where the trees are bare and it is cold, rainy, and
snowy. We can play in the snow and drink hot chocolate to keep warm.
Spring: the season where the trees are starting to grow new leaves and
flower buds. It is cool and rainy. We use umbrellas and rain boots in
the rain.
The seasons happen once a year and the cycle repeats itself every
year.
Vocabulary:
Tree trunk: the main part of the tree, keeps the tree standing, wood
Branch: grows from the trunk, thinner pieces of wood
Leaves: green, flat, grows on the tree branches, sometimes changes
colors during fall.
Flower Buds: flowers that are starting to grow, hasnt opened up yet,
baby flower
Autumn: Another name for fall
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall (Definitions same as above)
Materials:
Classroom set-up:
Students will work at a table with their classmates and teacher will walk
around, assist when needed, and give directions.
Introduction:
fingers in between colors. This will be a two day project. Fingerprints and
coloring the first day. (Make sure the students write their name on the back
of each paper in pencil as to not lose their papers.) The second day will be
cutting, gluing and copying the names of the seasons on the bottom of each
tree. The teacher will attaching to the mobile and hang in the classroom.
Assessment:
Handout on all four seasons. Matching pictures of the fun things to do during
the different seasons from the left to the pictures on the right of the paper.
Review the different things to do during the four seasons without revealing
the season. (See sample for picture descriptions.)
Resources:
The little Hands Nature Book (Earth, Sky, Critter and more)
By: Nancy F. Castaldo, Williamson Little Hands Books
Mailbox October/November 2003 The education Center Inc., Teachers
Friend, A scholastic Company
Mailbox Summer Idea Book 2003, Teachers Friend, A scholastic
company
The Four Seasons By: Rozanne Lanczak Williams, Creative teaching
press, 1994
Round and Round The Seasons Go By: Rozanne Lanzac Williams,
Creative Teaching Press 1994
Weekly Calendar with weather pocket chart and Wilber the Cat
dressing for the seasons, Carson-Deliosa Publishing, CD-5636
http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/the-four-seasons/
http://www.preparingyourchildforpreschool.com/Seasons-PreschoolWorksheets.html
Actually, leaves start falling off in the fall. But they are all gone in the winter
because during the spring, summer, and fall the leaves help make food for
the tree to help it grow. When it is winter it does not need a lot of food so the
tree doesnt need the leaves anymore. There are some trees whose leaves
never fall off.
We need to wear jackets when it is cold so we can keep our bodies warm. If
our bodies are too cold we can get sick.
It doesnt snow here in Los Angeles because we live close to the ocean. The
ocean helps keep out temperatures warmer. But we can go up into the
mountains where we are further away from the ocean and we can find snow
there.
Snow comes from the clouds. Just like rain. But it gets very cold and the rain
is frozen and changes into snow.
Each season come one time each year. So we only have one winter, one
spring, one summer and one fall every year. The next year we have the
seasons again.
All the seasons last the same amount of time. About three months or 91
days.
7) Where does the sun go for the rest of the seasons? Does it stay
in the same place?
The sun is always in the same place during all the seasons. The sun doesnt
ever go away.
We can have turkey during any of the seasons. Like a turkey sandwich when
we go to the beach, during the summer, or have a picnic, during the spring.
But, during the fall, we sometimes see a lot of turkey because when we
celebrate thanksgiving we eat turkey dinner with our families.
Self Evaluation:
1) How did you feel right before the presentation?
After the presentation I felt confident that what I presented was good but
still nervous that my peers would be evaluating me and not knowing what
they thought was nerve racking.
I think that part that went the best was the Introduction. It was the part
that I could most prepare for and I was very confident that my thumb
print leaves presentation would go well and it did.
Just the timing with the coloring was unexpected. But I stopped them
explaining that it would be a two-day project in the actual classroom.
The only thing we talked about was how this is definitely a two day lesson
as well as year round discussing the seasons.
Yes it was definitely worthwhile If you took advantage of actually doing the
work. Some students in my group didnt seem to take it seriously and did
not have a lot of content in their presentations. For me personally, the
people that did their work I learned a lot and I dont think anything needs
to be improved but for the people that did not do the work I think the only
way to make sure they work would be to make it worth more of your
grade.
Preparing for my topic I was pretty much sure of the content that I was
teaching because it is kindergarten. Being able to do vocabulary in a way
for kindergarten students to understand was hard. But, when answering
the student questions I did not realize how much more there is to learn
about my lesson and I would need to be prepared for these actual
questions in a classroom environment.
10)
Did preparing your lesson help you better understand
where to find teaching resources? Explain what you found.
Yes, there are so many websites with teacher lessons and Ideas that can
be found. As well as stores like lakeshore, although expensive, has a lot of
Ideas and you can make some of these charts or projects at home. It helps
to spark ideas of your own by seeing how others make or create
something similar to what you want to do.
11)
I thought this was a great way to prepare me for the real world of
teaching. There is so much preparation that goes in to just one single
lesson. I also loved seeing other students lessons I will definitely keep
them in the back of my mind for the future.