Learning

Experience 1

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where,
when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations,
reading and being read to, and responding to texts

19.B.1b Understand how to execute basic movement patterns

Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to ask and answer why and what questions that relate to key
details using cause and effect.

Students will be able to connect and respond to different phrases referred to in the
book.

Students will be able to execute basic movement patterns using sign language

Learning Activities:

1. Introduce cause and effect by having the definitions on the white board,
along with an example. The cause is why something happened; the effect is
what happened. Example- It was cold outside so I wore my mittens.
2. Introduce sign language for the words why and what to go along with cause
and effect definitions.
3. Read the book If You Give A Mouse a Cookie.
4. Then as a class, work together to do a cause and effect worksheet that goes
along with the book.
5. Call on students to read either the cause or effect statements and then try
and figure out what goes in the blank.
6. Ask for any other cause and effect statements that happened in the book and
are not on the worksheet.
7. Tell the students to start thinking of what cause and effects happen in their
own life on a daily basis.

Instructional Materials/Resources:

1. Cause and effect definitions written on the white board
2. Sign language for why and what
3. Book If You Give a Mouse A Cookie
4. Cause and effect worksheet
5. Pen/pencil
6. Elmo


Informal/Formal Assessments:
Students will be assessed through observation. They will be assessed on whether or
not they can answer what and why questions throughout the class. They also will be
assessed on if they are following along with the worksheet that responds to the
book. Lastly, they will be assessed if they are doing the correct sign language with
the definitions. Below is an observational chart to help keep track of students
understanding.


Learning Experience 2

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse
partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger
groups

2C.1b. Demonstrate appropriate social and classroom behavior

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to collaborate with each other through conversation about
cause and effect

Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate social and classroom behavior
when working together


Learning Activities:

1. Watch For the Birds YouTube video.
2. Ask students to write one cause and effect situation that happened in the
video on their whiteboards.
3. Walk around and take observational notes on if their cause and effect was
correct or not.
4. Then call on different students to hear their answers.
5. Discuss the video and the cause and effects that happened.
6. Introduce that the word because is a big hint word to students that there was
a cause and effect.
7. Next students will get into pairs to build to use cause and effect statements
using the word because to build a sentence.
8. Pull a small group to work with the teacher.
9. The statements will already be cut. Students will have to work together to
make the right sentence, gluing it on a separate piece of paper.
10. At the end, each group will share one of their cause and effect statements.

11. If they say an incorrect statement, correct them before moving on to the next
group.
12. Discuss any other cause and effect statement that they have come up with.

Instructional Materials/Resources:

1. YouTube video For the Birds
2. Individual whiteboards
3. Dry erase markers/easers
4. Cause and effect statements
5. Blank pieces of paper
6. Glue
7. Projector

Informal/Formal Assessments:
Students will be assessed through observation of their statements written on their
white boards about the video. They will also be assesse on their cause and effect
sentences and how they collaborate with other students.

Learning Experience 3

Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2 Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read
aloud or information presented orally or through other media

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task
and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification

Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to use information that they have learned through class to
produce their own cause and effect statements

Students will be able to use complete sentences when writing their cause and effect
statements


Learning Activities:

1. Explain to students that yesterday morning an egg was put into a cup of
vinegar and the egg sat in it all night.
2. Show them the egg that was in the vinegar and compare it to a regular egg.
3. Ask them what happened? What was the cause and the effect of putting the
egg in vinegar for one day?
4. After the discussion break the egg in a bowl and then ask what the cause and
effect was for that situation.

5. Write either a cause or an effect statement on the board and ask students to
think about what could be a cause or effect depending on the statement that
was used. Have them fill in the blank.
6. Explain that the students will have to work independently on a cause and
effect statement and draw a picture to go along with it.
7. Go over an example together made by the teacher and then have students
start working on their own.
8. Tell the students to write their statements first then draw after they are
done.
9. If students finish early, they may write another cause and effect statement on
the back.

Instructional Materials/Resources:

1. Template for their own cause and effect statements
2. Pen/pencil
3. Crayons/colored pencils
4. Egg in Vinegar (that was put in the fridge the day before)
5. Regular egg
6. An empty container

Informal/Formal Assessments:

Students will be assessed on their cause and effect sentence that they made using a
rubric.