KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate: Kaitlyn Piekarski Date: 2/13/16

Cooperating Teacher: Dave Shiffer Coop. Initials ______

Group Size: 21 Allotted Time 30 minutes Grade Level Second

Subject or Topic: Science: Growing and Changing Section _

Science Unit: Chapter 3 People Grow and Change

Lesson 1
STANDARD:

2.MD.A.1 Measurement and Data 1. Measure the length of an object by selecting and
using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

10.1-3.2 Body Awareness- identifying and locating parts of the body, and identifying
specific practices that support body development and functions

I. Performance Objectives:
The students will be able to
Describe the many ways people grow and change during their lives.
Compare how people are alike and different at different stages of life.
Measure their height by using an appropriate form of measurement.

II. Instructional Materials

Smartboard
People Grow and Change ppt.
Height Measurement Strips
Height tracking strips on wall
Ruler/Yardstick

III. Subject Matter/Content

A. Prerequisite skills
Students will be able to independently record information.
Students will know how to write on the smartboard, using the
smartboard pens.
Students will have an understanding of what it means to compare
objects.
 Students will know what the terms different and alike mean.
Students will have interacted with a ruler/yardstick before.
Students will have had experience with working in groups and
participating in whole-class activities.
Students will be capable of answering orally given questions.
B. Key Vocabulary
Permanent Teeth: new adult teeth
C. Big Idea
UEQ: How do people grow and change?
D. Content
Group discussion: Comparing and contrasting babies vs. adults
(animals and human)
o What changes between the two?
o What is the same?
o What did they need to change?
How will we grow and change?
How quickly do we grow and change?
o Recording data of height measurement
o Making predictions
o Using appropriate tools of measurement

IV. Implementation
A. Introduction
Give the students the Chapter 3 Quiz.
Inform the students that they should try their best, but it is okay if they
are uncertain of the answers. Tell the students that the content on their
quiz is what they will be learning about over the next two weeks in
their science studies. This quiz will be used to gauge how much the
students learned, as well as what they currently know.
Collect the quizzes when complete.
B. Development
Project the ppt. presentation onto the smartboard. Read the words on
the first slide. Inform the students that this will be the start of their
lesson on Growth and Change. Engage the students in a discussion
by showing them the first slide with images. (A baby otter and a full
grown otter.)
Have the students compare and contrast these images. Encourage the
students to think out of the box with their comparisons.
o What do you notice about the otters fur?
o What do you notice about the otters size?
o Why do you think the otter went through these changes?
o Which otter is older? How do you know?
Continue through the ppt. presentation, inviting the students to share
any of their ideas. Finally, when the class reaches the slides with
 humans, have the students share their own changes that they may have
gone through.
o Baby teeth-adult teeth (Introduce vocab word permanent
teeth.)
o Becoming stronger and taller
o Being able to do more
o Eating more or different foods
o Running faster
o Etc.
Inform the students that no two people are alike, but all people grow
and change. First, people start out as a baby, then a child, later a
teenager, and finally they will be an adult.
When someone becomes and adult they change in different ways:
o They may not grow taller, but rather shrink.
o Their skin may wrinkle.
o They may lose their hair or it may gray.
Finally, bring the students to the last slide of what do we need to
grow? Have a few students go up to the smartboard and write down
various things that they need to grow. (Food, water, exercise, sleep.)

C. Closure
Hand out the Height Slips.
Have each student come to the wall that has the height tracking strips.
Record their height and put their initials next to the line.
Have the students record their current height and their prediction.
Have the students turn in their Height Slips when finished.
Inform the students that they will compare their current height to their
height on March 17th.

If extra time, introduce the students to Clackity Mc. Stubs. (The skeleton friend that
will teach them more about growing and changing bones and muscles.)

D. Accommodations/Differentiation
Students may have assistance with reading the various terms on the
pre-lesson assessment.
Oral questions will be asked, and students will be able to verbally
respond or write their answer on the smartboard.
Students can be given assistance (peer-help) in how to record their
measurements, if needed.
The discussion during the ppt. will be more student guided, unless it is
necessary that the teacher guide the discussion back on task.

E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
 1. Formative
A quiz will be given at the beginning of this lesson to
assess the students on their prior knowledge. This will
be graded based off of accuracy. The grade on this quiz
will not count towards the students final grade.
The teacher will ask oral questions throughout the
duration of this lesson. The questions will require the
students to compare and contrast babies vs
children/adult forms of the same mammal. The teacher
will keep a checklist of students who are involved and
engaged throughout this discussion, and take note of
any interesting and thoughtful inferences made by the
students.
The teacher will use the thumbs-up/thumbs-down
method throughout this lesson to check for students
understanding of the content. Ample time will be given
for questioning and remediation, as needed.
The teacher will have the students independently record
their height and their predictions. The teacher will
collect the height strips from the students at the end
of this lesson. The teacher will observe the height strips
to see if the students were able to record their height.
The teacher will analyze to see if the students
predictions made sense. (At the age that the students are
currently at, they should continue to grow. The
prediction should be a larger number than that of their
original height.) The teacher will keep these slips in a
safe place until the next measurement.
2. Summative
There will be a cumulative exam given at the end of this Chapter. The
cumulative exam will be graded based on accuracy. Content will be
reviewed the day prior to the exam.

V. Reflective Response
A. Report of Student Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives

After completion of the pre-test for this unit, many of the students stated that
they found it very difficult and they did not know the answers. The students
were encouraged to do their best and to take their best guess in order to
complete the ten question assessment. After grading this assessment, the
following conclusions were made:

11/11: 1 Student
 9/11: 1 Student
8/11: 2 Students
7/11: 8 Students
5/11: 1 Student
4/11: 5 Students
2/11: 1 Student

(Two students were absent on the day of this pre-assessment.) It is unclear as

to whether or not some of the students had lucky guesses when completing
this quiz, or if they truly knew the information. That being said, all the
information on this quiz will be taught throughout the unit. There should be an
increase in the grades following the teaching of the lessons.

During the PowerPoint presentation, it was recorded that each student

participated in the discussion at least once. Two of the students did not show
much interest in involvement throughout this lesson. This is a common theme
among those two students. (R.K. and K.H.)

The students took time to measure themselves on the second day of this
lesson. (The lesson had to be split into two days due to time conflict with
varying parts of the students schedules. All of the students recorded a height
of around 50 inches. This is accurate to their average heights. All students
guessed that they would grow in a range of 1-2 inches. All students showed
understanding of the fact that they should increase in height over time,
because they are at the age where they will continue to grow.

Remediation Plan

The content of this lesson will be reviewed again before the final assessment.

B. Personal Reflection

What will you do differently in the future?

In the future, I may find a different way to have the students interact with the
comparing and contrasting of the young animals versus the adult animals. The
students provided great comparisons and were very insightful during the
PowerPoint presentation. They took notice to the changes in fur, teeth, how
the animals held themselves, and the surroundings that the animals were in. If
this lesson were to be done again, I would likely use hula hoops to create a
giant Venn-diagram. This would address more standards and create a visual
for the comparing and contrasting that was being done throughout this lesson.
I would then have the students record their comparisons and place them into
the hula-hoop Venn-diagram. I feel that this would make the lesson more
interactive and exciting. Despite this, majority of the students showed great
interest in the animal images. Furthermore, they displayed a clear
 understanding of knowing child versus adult, and the changes that one goes
through to become an adult.

VI. Resources

Google Images, Google docs

Frank, M. S. (2005). Harcourt science. Orlando: Harcourt School .