Name: Nina Mandile

Kyle ODay
DAILY PLAN
Lesson Title: Hybrid Animals Grade Level: Kindergarten

S & S Statements: Students will be introduced to visual analysis and sketching. Students will connect
to visual culture through example images from popular movies and mythology.

Concepts and Skills: Students will practice observational and critical thinking skills when looking at
images of mythical creatures and identifying different characteristics. Students will also visualize and
create their own ideas for a creature using sketching.

Vocabulary: Synectics, Characteristics, Hybrid, Sketch

Purpose of Lesson (Overall Lesson Objective): Given a range of examples of mythical creatures,
students will identify the different animal characteristics that make up a specific mythical creature and
be able to plan and create a hybrid animal with identifiable characteristics made of two or more separate
animals using pencil and paper and modeling clay.

Objectives:
1. Given a lesson and discussion of mythical creatures and hybrid animals, students will demonstrate
original thought appropriate to their age in constructing an idea and story of a hybrid creature.
2. Given crayons and three sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper, students will thoughtfully create one to three full-
page sketches of their own hybrid creature.

Assessment Criteria:
1. Students will develop and describe an idea for their own creature and provide a background story
for it.
2. Students will plan and organize thoughts by making 1 to 3 full-page sketches of their ideas using
characteristics of no more than three different animals for each drawing.

Teaching Resources Needed to Support the Lesson:

Smartboard or projector
PowerPoint with picture examples of mythical creatures
Drawn examples created by the teachers

Art Materials Necessary for the Lesson:

8.5 x 11 Paper
Crayons

Teacher Directed Activities Student Activities

Introduction (15 minutes) Introduction (15 minutes)

-Gather students on rug -Sit on the rug

 -Present PowerPoint about hybrid animals and -Engage in a class discussion about the images
mythical creatures displayed in the PowerPoint

-Introduce vocabulary words -Repeat vocabulary words

-Lead a discussion about animal characteristics. -Discuss animal characteristics and think
Ask students to identify different animal parts for critically about the uses of different animal
each example. Ask students to imagine what characteristics
benefits each hybrid combo might have.

-Dismiss students to desks -Sit down in assigned seat

-Pass out paper -Get pencils from buckets

Development (20 minutes) Development (20 minutes)

-Instruct the children to sketch 1 to 3 ideas for their -Sketch 1 to 3 ideas of possible hybrid animals
own hybrid creature using crayon and paper

-Walk around and help kids develop and execute

their ideas

Conclusion (5 minutes) Conclusion (5 minutes)

-Instruct students to clean up -Clean up

Critical Comments and Reflections:

After teaching on day one, we discovered that there is one student in our class that does not want to
participate in the lesson. He refused to draw anything because he did not know how and wanted us
to draw it for him. For our next lesson, we need to think about how to balance giving him the attention
he needs and giving the rest of the class attention.
For our presentation on hybrid animals, we could have included more pictures and asked more
questions about specific characteristics of the examples we displayed. It was difficult to gather all my
thoughts and not move through the presentation quickly. For the next lesson, we need to keep trying
to discuss the important parts of the objective and try not to move so quickly through it.
I am ecstatic that the students loved the lesson. They all seemed to enjoy the creativity aspect and
talking about their creations.