Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Content Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): Kindergarten

Content Standard Addressed:

ELAGSEKRL2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
ELAGSEKRL3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Technology Standard Addressed:

3- Knowledge Constructor

Selected Technology Tool:

Timeline

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☒ Level 1: Awareness ☒ Level 2: Exploration ☒ Level 3: Infusion ☐ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

Supports English language learners
Supports visual learners
Supports auditory learners
Extends learning to the home
Lesson idea implementation:
The teacher will begin the lesson by showing the students a timeline about herself. To teach the students
what a timeline, the teacher can show the students five important events in her life on a timeline, including
the day that she was born, her high school graduation day, her wedding day, her college graduation day, and
the day her daughter was born. To ensure that the students know what a timeline is, it would be best to
provide one that is created by hand first. This allows the students to see it being created, and they can come
touch it to see the different parts of it.

The teacher will read the book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?”. The teacher will ensure that
each picture is shown to help the children remember what each animal looks like and the order that the story

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is told. The teacher will provide the students with a paper timeline and crayons. The teacher will direct the
students to draw pictures of the animals in the order that the story was told. The teacher will read the story
again and provide the web-based timeline on the Interactive Whiteboard. The teacher will hide each item on
the timeline, and encourage the students have discussions about what event comes next.
Reflective Practice:
This lesson and activity allows students to use technology, incorporate student-led activities, and retell events
in order from a story. The students are able to organize the events and characters from the story in order
from what they remember. They are also able to collaborate and work with their neighbors to discuss what
order is the correct order that occurred in the story. To extend this lesson, the teacher could collaborate with
other kindergarten teachers and bring their classes together. Each class can be given different stories to
create a timeline with. They can then come together, read the stories together, and present the timelines
that were created.

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