Intern Name: Madison Delecluse

Topic/Title of Lesson: 4th grade science

Grade: 4th
Length (time) of Lesson:
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
Overview The students will do a project based on the solar system.
4.7 The student will investigate and understand the organization of the solar system.
Standard(s) of
Key concepts include the planets in the solar system and the order of the planets in
Learning the solar system.
Students will be able to…
● Understand why saturn is the only planet with rings
● There are 9 planets
Objectives ● Earth has one moon

Learning Target I can… identify the all planets and their order in the solar system.
Prior Knowledge The students should be able to recognize the planet we live on and that earth only
Required has one moon. They should also know that there are 9 planets altogether.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, solar system,
Key Vocabulary or
and planets.
Concepts
Student materials:
➔ A notebook
➔ Colored pencils/ markers
➔ Glue (preferably glue sticks)
Teachers materials:
➔ Styrofoam balls (different sizes according to planet shapes)
➔ Styrofoam base (get as many as you need according to how many groups
there are)
Materials ➔ Colored paint
➔ Toothpicks
➔ Colored paper
➔ Pipe cleaners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2bQWH6GCM
Introduction/ Show this short video to students to get their brain ready for learning about the
Hook planets.
 1. Explain to students what they’re going to do and that they need to get in to a
group of three.
2. When they get into their group, they’ll have the choice of doing research in
books, or on the computer. They will also take notes on what they learned
with an outlined paper given to them with questions they need to answer.
Once done they will go to the teacher to check their notes to see if they are
ready to move on to the project.
3. Once the students have done their research and their notes have been
checked by the teacher, one student from each group will come up to the
Instructional teachers desk and grab the supplies needed for their project. (nine styrofoam
Activities balls, paint, toothpicks, pipe cleaners, string, and colored paper.)
4. When the students go back to their seats they will talk with their group about
what ball matches what shape of what planet. They’ll get those in order then
call for a teacher to check and make sure everything is good.
5. The students will paint and decorate the planets according to what the planets
look like.
6. Once done, the students will vote on placing each planet on toothpicks and
putting them on the styrofoam base to hold the planets up, or they have the
choice of hanging the planets with the string.

For Greg (hearing impaired) closed captions on introduction video

Accommodations For Bri (ADHD) has to be reminded to stay calm and to help out
One student from each group will explain one planet and what the planet looks like
Closure Activity and what number the planet is in order of the solar system.

Exit ticket: each student will play a game on the smartboard to show me what each
Assessments of them have learned and i’ll take small notes on each student and what they need
help with.
Resources Computers and educational books

Lesson Plan Assignment: Grade Sheet

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow I

Intern Name: ___Maddie Delecluse_____

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Overview, SOLs, objectives (10) 8
Introduction/hook & closure (10) 8
Instructional activities (20) 19
Accommodations (10) 10
Assessment (5) 5
Vocab, materials, resources (5) 5
Supplemental materials (10) 8
Total (70) 63