Lesson Plan Template

Biology: Vitamins and Minerals

Name: Ana Galac Length of lesson: 60 minutes

1. Overview description of your students:

13 year old elementary school students who are studying English as their second language, level
A2

2. Name your content objective(s) for the lesson. For each one, begin with “By the end of the
lesson, students will be able to.”
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- Identify vitamins and minerals
- Categorize vitamins to fat –soluble and water soluble
Categorize vitamins and minerals according to their function
- Make a leaflet on teenage health

3. Name your language objective(s) for the lesson. For each one, begin with “By the end of the
lesson, students will be able to.”
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- Describe the function of minerals and vitamins using Simple present tense Use connectors
like, such as, for example
- Use should or shouldn’t for advice

4. What vocabulary will students need to know that may be new to them:
a. Which of these words are technical terms that are specific to the content area of study?
(For example, the word “product” is used in general English, but for math, it has a
technical meaning that indicates multiplication, as in, “The product of 2 and 8 is 16.”)

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 Fat-soluble, water soluble, blood cells, iron, oxygen, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, muscles

b. Other words the students may be challenged by:

To store, to fill one up, plenty, peaches, pumpkins

5. In this lesson, I anticipate students will be challenged by remembering the names of the
minerals

6. To address these challenges, I plan to (note the specific activities that will address these
challenges)…

- To write down the words on the pieces of paper and on the board
- To let students chose the mineral, write a mineral card with a drawing and association
connected to the word
- to let students listen to the text and raise word card with the name of the mineral
- to read the text and underline vitamins red and minerals blue
- to let students match vitamins and minerals with their function

7. This is the way I will assess my students (note specific stages and specific activities that you will
use for assessment)…

- I will assess their participation in group activities ranging from 1 didn’t participate, 2
participated when prompted, 3. participated most of the time, 4. Actively participated, 5.
Actively participated and invited other students to take action

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administered by FHI 360. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, except where noted. To
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 8. These are the ways in which this lesson plan is specifically a content-based instruction lesson
plan. In other words,
a. This lesson plan differs from an EFL lesson plan because: it teaches about vitamins,
minerals, their function and it suggests adequate action to preserve one’s health
b. This lesson plan differs from a regular content class because it teaches not only
vocabulary, but also, about vitamins and minerals and their function, the way vitamins
and minerals affect our body

9. These are the materials that I will need to carry out this lesson plan (Will you need special pens?
Photocopies? Etc.)

Multi- colored A4 papers, 4 sets of multi-colored markers, whiteboard markers, cardboard cards.
The text is a part of their textbook

The steps of the lesson plan are described below. (Add rows as needed.)

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 Detailed Lesson / Activity Plan Steps

Time Lesson Content Students will… (what they will do and how Language focus (what kind of language Role of the teacher… (my
/ Activity they will interact with each other and the will the students be using / practicing) role, and what I will be paying
Stages content) attention to)
Warm up -they will guess the topic we are going to -they will practice the phrase Is it….? arise interest, monitor that the
5 min Guess what we discuss by guessing what do letters and Are those? questions are asked correctly,
are going to symbols on the board refer correct and the revise the
talk about Zn, A, D, B6, B12 phrase Is it…? /Are those…? If
today neccesary

10 min Introducing Students will listen to the text while at the They will practice listening and reading -monitoring the work, helping
new same time following the text in the book skills if necessary
vocabulary They will underline the names of minerals
and vitamins

15 Reinforcing -Student gets a word card with the name of They will practice spelling and writing -monitoring the work, helping
minutes new mineral or vitamin, on the back of the card if necessary, correcting
vocabulary writes the association and the drawing spelling mistakes

-student gets

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 This is a program of the U.S. Department of State
administered by FHI 360 and delivered by World Learning