Shelby Hite

Lesson Plan
Foundations of EC
Date: 9/30/2015
Title of Lesson

If I were an Animal ???

Grade Level

K-2nd

Topic/Main Idea

If you could have an animal body, what creature would

you be? Why?
Draw their dream animal and then spin a tale about
their ADVENTURES!
Organize students at a central place in the classroom
such as the reading rug. Ask students to discuss
animals that are fascinating to them. Students then
choose an animal! What animal characteristic would
you like to experience? Would you run like the wind on
four legs? Or fly over your house with strong wings? Or
swim to ocean depths using your flippers and tail? Use
your imagination to dream up a new way of seeing
your head combined with an animal, fish, or bird body.
Create and inspire the child to be creative and they
can be whatever they want!

Objectives

Concepts
Developmental
Domains

Materials

Language Arts

Science, Ecology, and Technology

Visual Arts
Color Pencils
Markers
Watercolor pad ( If you want )

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Activity Instructions
Hand out sheets of paper to the students

Tell students what they will be doing

Students use markers to create interesting and

zany features to their nonsense creatures.

Students compose an imaginative story. With Crayola

Erasable Colored Pencils, write a creative story about
creature adventures. Provide writing assisted as
needed with younger students. Or, the entire class can
come together and write one original story that has
several of the creatures as characters in their story.

Share stories with peers.

Adjustments/
Modifications

If you have a child with a disability and cannot sit

down for several minutes at a time they can stand up
and be creative.
This lesson is great for students with disabilities
because they can be as creative as they want.

Assessment

Just have FUN and be creative!

Students can create new animals
Works on the social when they share with their
classmates.

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