Prepared by: Megan Stone

Lesson title/topic: ME in the Desert

Subject area: Affective

Grade: Pre-School
Date: 10/10/2012

Time available: 45 minutes

STANDARDS/OUTCOMES addressed in this lesson:

28. Identify characteristics and qualities that make them unique.

OBJECTIVES Through these learning activities, the student will be able to:

By drawing themselves, students will be able to see the differences between them and their friends.
INSTRUCTION

Teaching strategy:

Informal
Introduction/Set induction

Bring the children together on the carpet and talk about how each person in the room in different and
how we like different things. Ask the children if they know what the word unique means? Give them
time to try and come up with an answer and then tell them it is how everyone is different. Have each
child share something that they like to do or something that is their favorite: Color, candy, toy. Talk
about how everyone even looks different. Take the children to the gym where there will be pieces of
paper cut out for the children to trace themselves on.
Instructional Activities

Students will all be traced on a big piece of paper. Each child will have their own piece of paper. After
they are traced the child will then begin to draw themselves. Add eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and clothes.
Also in the back ground have the student draw the desert, what they think it looks like. The students are
drawing themselves in the desert scenery. Students will be able to use markers and crayons. This
activity will be done in the gym where there is a lot of floor space for the drawings. While students are
drawing go around and ask them what they are doing and how they are different from other students.
Conclusion/Closure

Talk to the students about how all the drawing are different and unique.
Transitional Activities

Have them line up oldest to youngest and walk back to the classroom.
How this lesson provides for ASSESSMENT of student learning:

Observation- While students are working on their drawings I will be asking them question and taking
notes. How is your drawing different then your friends? What makes your unique?
Pre-assessment

Talk to the students about how they are different from one another. Before they draw themselves have
them come up with different ways that they are different from one another.
Checking up

While the children are working on their drawings ask them questions such as: How are you different
then.? Talk to them about how they are different than other children.
Post-assessment

After the students are done making their drawing, talk with them about how each of their drawings are
different and unique in their own way. Have them come up with different way that their drawing are
different.
How this lesson provides DIFFERENTIATION for the students in this class:

Each child will be able to do their own drawing and at their own pace.
RESOURCES NEEDED

Big white paper

Markers
Crayons
REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENT of the lesson and student success (to be hand written after lesson is taught)