6/12/2013

EDT 313
Non-implemented Learning Experience Plan
Name: Mary Fahey
Lesson Title: Experts of Matter
Date: Non-implemented Lesson
Grade Level: Preschool
Circle one:
ECE
PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Domain: Cognition and General Knowledge, Strand: Science Inquiry and Application, Topic: Inquiry, Standard: Identifies patterns and
relationships.
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: At this point, the students will have been learning about matter and will have completed a hook lesson as well as four
different lesson plans about matter. Therefore, as the teachers, my partner and I will have hoped that the students understand the difference between solids and
liquids, that mater can change states (i.e. liquid to solid or solid to liquid), and that some types of matter can change shape.
Instructional Objectives (1-2)
One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
The student will be able to
listen to each speaker and
then take the information
from one career and apply
to it a drawing to show how
matter is used within that
career.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
The student will be able to
understand the
relationship between each
speakers occupation and
how they work with matter.
Safety Considerations:
There are no safety
considerations for this
lesson.

Assessment of Student Learning

Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
The pictures the students draw and the descriptions
they give about their drawings will act as evidence
as to whether or not the students have met the
learning objectives. If the students drawing depicts
them working with a form of matter they will have
proven that they understand the relationship
between matter and how it is used within a career
and everyday life.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
From this evidence, the data will be recoded in the
ACCESS checklists. If the evidence shows that the
students have met the learning objectives, it will be
clear that they have an understanding of matter and
how it is used in the real world.
If the evidence shows that the students have not
met the learning objectives, it will be clear that the
teacher will need to provide more examples of
experts of matter. The teacher could even provide
more in depth descriptions and examples of matter
used within the careers of the speaker.
One way to do this is the teacher could set up the
home living area with props and accessories that
relate to the careers discussed as well as examples
of matter used within those careers. The students
could play with these props and tools in order to
gain their own experience.

Learning Experience
Academic Language:
No new academic language will be used in this
lesson that has not been used, explained, and
discussed in previous lessons.
Procedural steps:
Before this class period, the teacher will have
scheduled experts of matter to come in and discuss
their jobs to the class. So, a construction worker
(builder), an architect, an art teacher, or a chef will be
some of the career personal the teacher will ask to
come into the classroom.
Each person will individually discuss their career role
to the students, focusing mostly on how they work
with matter. So, the construction worker could talk
about how he or she builds with wood (solid) and the
art teacher could talk about the different ways she
uses a variety of paints (liquids).
Each person will be asked to bring in an object or
objects related to their career that is an example of
matter. These objects will be passed around or
observed by the students during the adults
explanation of their career.
After each person gives their speech to the students,
we will discuss as a class the types of matter each
person works with in their career.
After this discussion, the students will then go to their
assigned tables and draw a picture of themselves
using matter in one of the occupations that was
presented by a speaker or another occupation that
they can think of that involves matter.

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EDT 313
Non-implemented Learning Experience Plan

Once each student has finished their drawing, the

teacher will go around to each student and have
them give a brief description of their drawing. The
teacher will then write this description on a separate
piece of paper and display each childs drawing and
description throughout the classroom.

Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on

materials.)
The authentic materials used in this lesson will be the
adults that come in and talk about their occupation.
In addition, any materials that the adults bring in
related to their career that is an example of matter
will also be authentic materials.
Both the adult speakers and any of their materials will
allow the students to gain a real life understanding of
how matter is used throughout everyday life.
Adult Roles:
The adult roles in this lesson include the guest adults
that will come in and talk about their career.
In addition, once each speaker has finished, the
teacher will instigate the conversation of the different
types of matter that was talked about and used in
each career.

Resources & References:

I thought of this lesson on my own.

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)
This lesson plan will not be implemented within the classroom.