Emily Gordillo

11.21.2017

ECE 251

Lesson Plan

Activity Name: Bugs

Approximate Length of Experience: 10 minutes

Age and number of children: 6 three-year olds

Goal: To become more aware of the different species of bugs and explore how they interact with

the real world.

Domain: Physical

Content:

Fact: How do different bugs get from one place to another?

Vocabulary: Different, Another, Place, Crawl, Climb, Hop, Fly, Wiggle, Spider Web

Objectives: Childrens participation will increase their ability to

1. Describe different bugs seen in everyday life.

2. Discover the physical attributes of bugs.

3. Demonstrate knowledge whilst following multi-stepped directions.

Materials: Picture cards of the different bug movements, music, and a large rug to move around

on.

Procedures: To begin the lesson we will discuss the different types of bugs that they may or

may not see at their house. I will ask What types of bugs do you see outside? (Memory) I will

then ask them how to these bugs move from one place to another? (Divergent) The children

will answer and then I will ask the children to demonstrate the different movements by first

stating the bugs name, and then doing the movement. After we have discussed all of the different

types of bugs I will say that we have a very fun activity to do today and I think your really going

to like it. We are going to pretend that we are bugs and that we are going to a dance party. Each

bug has their fun moves that they do at the party and we are going to show our friend the

different dances that each bug does. I will then show them the cards that they will pick from. I

will pick one child at a time to pick a card and to display it to the rest of the class to do the

movement. They will pick from the following cards: Fly like a butterfly! Dance like a bee! Spin

like a spider! Click like a beetle! Wiggle like a caterpillar! March like and ant! Roll like a roly

poly! Jump like a cricket! And Finally Slide like a snail! After each card is displayed the children

will do the following command and dance along with the music. Once finished, I will ask the

children to sit down and take a deep breath. I will ask follow up questions such as what is your

favorite bug? (Memory) How do bugs get from one place to another when trying to get food?

(Convergent) If the child does not understand I will repeat once before asking them have you

ever seen any of these bugs at your home before? (Memory) Allow for them to answer. Where

they sleep at night when it is time for bed? (Divergent)

Extension: If time permits and if the children still seem interested in the activity at hand, we will

go on a scavenger hunt exploring for different bugs. I will ask them what type of bugs could we

see on our playground? (Convergent)

Simplification: If the children have mastered all the questions, I will include more difficult

questions as well as include more physical movement for each bug.

Evaluation: I will directly observe the children as well as take photographs of them as they are

engaging in bug movements.

What Next: Next, we will focus on individual bugs and go into detail of the different

characteristics of each one. We will discuss what they eat, where they sleep, if they can harm

you, etc.

Evaluation of questions used: I think for the most part I used a wide variety of different

questions that the children could answer from. I used both narrow and open-ended question both

that pertained to the lesson that was at hand. I think that to improve the quality of learning or

thinking of the children I could have rephrased some of the questions and increased the level of

difficulty of some of them as well as lower level questions for those who do not understand. I

think that both the lower level of thinking questions as well as the higher level of thinking

questions are equally important if they pertain to the lesson and allow the children to use their

brain to generate an answer.