Claudia Govea

November 20, 2017

ECE 251/SEC. 3001
Lesson Plan

1. Activity Name: Taste Buds

2. Approximate Length of Experience: 30 minutes

3. Age and Number of Children: 6 four year olds

4. Goal: To become familiar with the different tastes of apples.

5. Domain: Affective

6. Content:

a. Fact: How do apples taste?

i. Vocabulary: Sour, sweet, tart, taste

b. Fact: What can we make with apples?

i. Vocabulary: applesauce, apple pie, apple juice

7. Objectives:

a. Describe the differences between different tastes of apples.

b. Learn to use their taste sense by tasting all different kinds of apples.

c. Distinguish the terms sweet and sour from each other.

8. Materials:

a. Apples

b. Cutting knife

c. Plates

9. Procedures:

a. Begin by having a box with an apple inside. Ask the children who would like to

guess what is inside the box.

 b. Children will put their hands inside the box and guess what is inside the box one

by one. Teacher will record their answers on the board.

c. Children will then have a discussion based on their answers. They will be asked

i. “What is inside the box?” (Divergent)

ii. “Was the item big or small”. (Divergent)

d. The apple would be revealed from the box.

e. Two more different willbe shown to the students and they will be asked

i. “Are all three apples the same?” (Divergent)

ii. “ Are the apples the same color” (Divergent)

f. Next begin by pointing and describing the parts of an apple.

g. After cut the apple for the children to taste.

h. While children are tasting the apple they will be asked

i. “How does the apple taste” (Divergent)

ii. “Does the apple taste sweet or sour?” (Divergent)

iii. “Are both apples the same?” (Divergent)

i. Each child will classify their apples based on their taste sense.

10. Extension: After children taste ask the following. “Are the two apples the same?”

(Divergent)“Which one tasted sour “(Memory/Divergent) “which one was sweet?”

(Memory/ Divergent)

11. Simplification: Let children distinguish their own terms of “sour” and “sweet” on their.

Let the children tell you their own taste of the apples. Each child will categorize the

apples as they see them. Do not interfere with their categories.

12. Evaluation: Children will learn to use their sense of taste. They will then learn the terms

taste and sour and will learn to distinguish them apart. They will seek to learn to

categorize the apples they have based on their taste.

13. What Next:

a. Children will focused on the foods that can be made with apples. “What can we

make with apples?”

b. They will make applesauce by seeing the process how an apple can transform

from a solid item to liquid item.

c. Children will then learn the parts of an apple.

14. Evaluation of appropriateness of the category (type) of questions used: The questions

that were used in this lesson plan are appropriate for a child in preschool ages 3-4. The

questions are simple questions that child can answer. I did not use any questions that

were yes or no questions because that will not help me determine if the child understood

the concept. Most of the question I used were Divergent questions. I couldn’t come up

with questions that will give me a deeper understanding. The question in the extension

part of my lesson plan I classified them as memory and divergent just because the

children will be recapping back to the taste of the apples. I couldn’t use convergent

questions because the activity of tasting and every individual tastes differently so there

was no or yes to the right answer. The questions I used I believed were appropriate for a

child or 4 years old. I kept the questions to ae appropriate in which some children

understand the concepts of sweet and sour. Most children as understand the concept of

different and same. I kept the questions from being complicated for the children because

most children stand differently in their cognitive level.