Student: Jessica Falco

Professor: Maria Esposito

Course: EDU 527

Date: December 1, 2016

Grade: 3 Lesson: #2 Topic: Life Cycle of a Butterfly Vocabulary

Content Area: Science

Instructional Objective(s) (Lesson Objective(s)*

After learning the vocabulary associated with the life cycle of a butterfly, and creating
flashcards using a flashcards app, students will match the vocabulary task cards with the
correct definition, with 90% accuracy.
CCLS/ +NYS STANDARDS AND INDICATORS
Next Generation Science Standards
3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles
but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
[Clarification Statement: Changes organisms go through during their life form a
pattern.]
ISTE Standards
3. Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital
tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning
experiences for themselves and others. Students: c. Curate information from digital
resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that
demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
Reading Informational Text
RI.3.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and
phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic of subject area.
Indicator:

This will be evident when students determine the meaning of the

vocabulary associated with the life cycle of a butterfly.

MOTIVATION (Engaging the learner(s)*)

The students will use computers/iPads to learn this new vocabulary.

MATERIALS
Smartboard
Computers/ iPads
Flashcards App
Kahoot

STRATEGIES (Learning Strategies*)

Group Discussion: The students will participate in a group discussion about the new
vocabulary words.
Independent Study: Students will independently use technology to make his or her own
flash cards.
ADAPTATIONS (Exceptionality*)
Students with a learning disability or struggling readers will receive a vocabulary helpful
hint sheet as a guide.
DIFFERENTIATION OF INSRUCTION
Tier 1: Students will match the vocabulary task cards with the correct definition, using a
helpful hints sheet as a reference.
Tier 2: Students will match the vocabulary task cards with the correct definition.
Tier 3: Students will match the vocabulary task cards with the correct definition, and put
two of the words into a sentence.

DEVELOPMENTAL PROCEDURES
Students will participate in a discussion about the vocabulary associated in the life
cycle of a butterfly. (Does anyone know any stages in the life cycle of a butterfly?
What is the first stage called? What is a pupa? What is a larva?)
Students will work collaboratively with the teacher to create definitions for the
vocabulary terms.
Students will work on an iPad, using a Flashcards App and create his or her own
flashcards with the vocabulary.
Students will study the vocabulary independently, and then with a friend.
Students will receive vocabulary/definition task cards and correctly match them,
as the teacher walks around and observes.

ASSESSMENT (artifacts* and assessment [formal & informal]*)

Students will participate in a Kahoot! using the vocabulary terms and definitions.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
After learning the vocabulary for the life cycle of a butterfly, students will complete a
vocabulary worksheet for homework.

FOLLOW-UP: DIRECT TEACHER INTERVENTION AND ACADEMIC

ENRICHMENT
Direct Teacher Intervention: For students who had trouble with the lesson, we will work
together to come up with trick/ helpful hints to help remember the vocabulary.
Academic Enrichment: For students who did not have trouble with this assignment, he or
she will use a website to create his or her own crossword puzzle, and then switch and
solve a friends crossword that he or she made (using the life cycle of a butterfly words
and definitions).

TEACHER REFERENCES
Flashcards. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.cram.com

Plants and Animals. (2016). In Science Fusion (pp. 89-107). Orlando, FL: Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt.

Study Life Cycles with Butterflies. (n.d). Retrieved from

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonpro/lessonplans/instructor/science2.htm