15 Lesson Plan Samples

15 Lesson Plan Samples
Planning Form
1.
Name of Activity:
Animal sorting
Originating Idea:
Animal sorting
Curriculum Area:
Sorting
Materials:
White paper, sharpie, assorted erasers- food, animals, colors, shapes
Appropriate Age group
4-5
Beginning of Activity
Tell the children how you can sort everything to fit indifferent categories. Such as
sorting the same colors together, the same letter words together, sorting food
and even animals.
Middle of Activity
Set up children at the tables and have a piece of paper in front of each child with
a couple circles and a pile of similar erasers, colors, shapes, animals, etc. have
the children sort similar things into the circles the cows go in one and the pigs go
in another and the chickens in the last one.
Early:
During circle time have big versions of the eraser objects you are sorting, put
circles of duct tape on the floor and one at a time have the children come grab
an object and out it in the correct place, and teach them to sort as a group all
together.
Middle:
On a dry erase board during circle time draw circles on the board and have
pictures of different sorting objects and one at a time they can come up and put
it in the correct circles.
Later:
Have a bunch of objects in a basket and one at a time have children pick and
object and put it in a plie or start a new pile so they can figure out how to sort
without guidance.
End of Activity:
During snack give the children grapes and raisins and have the children before
they start eating sort them into 2 piles.
Follow-up Ideas
Bring in a bucket of different colored balls and have the children sort them on
the playground or gym.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes
What did the children do with the material specifically? Sorted the objects
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of how to sort and how
to put things in different categories.
Did the children respond to the materials in the way you anticipated? Yes
Would you have done anything differently if you could do this again? No
2. Name of Activity:
Mail call
Originating Idea:
The mailing system and what the mail man does
Curriculum Area:
Social studies
Materials:
Envelopes, stamps, paper, crayon
4-5
Read the children a book about the mailing system and what it does, how a post
office work and what does the mail man do. Sit the children down and have them
write letters to their friends in the class.
Middle of Activity
Have the children write letters or draw pictures to their friends, then have them
put on lables of their friends addresses and stamps.
Early:
Read the children a book about mail and have them draw pictures and send
them to their classmate by putting them in a toy mail box and in circle time
delivering them to the children.
Middle:
Have the children stuff envelopes of snack and write down their classmates
names and send it to them at snack time, and they get a letter full of snack
( graham crackers) and deliver them to their friends.
Later:
Have the children write letters to their friends and have the mail man pick them
up to send them to their homes.
End of Activity:
Have the mail man come into your classroom and pick up the childrens
envelopes and wait for the kids to have them delivered in a couple days to their
homes!
Follow-up Ideas
Tell the children how the mailing system works, and read them a book on
mailing.
Assessment:
What did the children do with the material specifically? Drew their friends
pictures and mailed them to their houses once the mail man picked them up.
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of the mailing system
Planning Form
3.
Name of Activity:
Hot chocolate math

Originating Idea:
Adding
Curriculum Area
Mathematics
Materials:
Piece of paper with pictures of hot chocolate mugs on it and inside there are
math problems- 1+1. 1+2, 1+3, etc and mini marshmallows. 2 sided tape
5-6
Have circle time and have a giant bored with different cups of hot chocolate
pictures and math problems on it have the children come up one by on e and
solve the problem they are giving, once they get it right have them put the
answer in marshmallows on the hot chocolate cups, they will put the
marshmallows with tape on the back up and then the next child will solve the
other problems and so on.
Middle of Activity
Give the children there hot chocolate problem and have them thinking of the
answer while other children are up putting on their marshmallows and figuring
out there answer.
Early:
Have the children take the marshmallows and while they are sitting down have
them solve the problems with the marshmallows, give them 5 marshmallows and
tell them to put 2 on the right side of them and 3 on the other side and when
they add them together how many
Middle:
Have the children put up the answers up on the hot chocolate after you go over
the problem as a class.
Later:
have the children solve the problems by themselves.
End of Activity
Have the children count up the marshmallows on their hot chocolates then give
them marshmallows to eat.
Follow-up Ideas
Have the children switch hot chocolate problems and do the activity again or
with friends during play time.
Assessment:
What did the children do with the material specifically? They solved the
problems to the best of their ability and put up there marshmallow answers.
What did the children gain from the activity? Math skills
Nice potato
Originating Idea:
Being social with other children
Curriculum Area
Social emotional development
Materials:
One potato
3-4
Sit the children in circle time and tell them they are going to play nice potato.
Nice potato is like the game hot potato. We will put music on and pass the nice
potato around, when the music stops the person who is holding the nice potato
will turn next to the person to the right side and say one nice thing about them,
for example I like the shirt you are wearing today or I like when you come
over and play with me in the block area.
Middle of Activity
Have the children playing nice potato and passing the potato to the other
children and when it stops giving the person to there right compliments or
saying something nice about them.
Early:
Have the children pass around the nice potato and when it stops on them have
them start off saying the childs name, and I like _____ about you today.
Middle:
Have the children play nice potato and say 2 nice things about the child sitting
next to them.
Later:
Have the children say something nice and play nice potato but each time give
them a different topic or area to compliment, for example during this round you
have to compliment them on how they play, or what they are wearing, or how
they clean upetc.
End of Activity
Tell the children this activity helps us be nice to people and how did it feel when
we had someone say something nice to us? It makes us feel good and happy so
it is good to say nice things to other people, but when we say not nice things to
other people it makes them feel really bad and unhappy.
Follow-up Ideas
Give each of the children a compliment and hold the potato and say nice things
to them.
Assessment:
What did the children do with the material specifically? Used the potato to say
nice things to their friends
What did the children gain from the activity? When they say something nice to
other people around them it makes them feel good and it helps them interact
with children who they are not specifically friends with but they get to give them
a compliment and talk to them. They also liked receiving compliments from the
other children next to them. When they say nice things it makes them and
others feel good.
Did the children respond to the materials in the way you anticipated? Yes, they
were very happy when they got a compliment from there friends and were
excited to get the potato and say something nice to the child next to them.
Would you have done anything differently if you could do this again? No.
Letter match up
Originating Idea:
Teaching kids the alphabet
Curriculum Area
Language, literacy, and communications
Materials:
Foam mat with all the letters of the alphabet, toys that start will all different
letters- apple, book, car, drum, elefant, firetruck, googley eyes, hat, ice cube
tray, jump rope, kangaroo doll, lion plastic toy, monkey toy, night gown, octopus
doll, pineapple, quarters, rain coat, shirt, telephone, umbrella, violin picture,
water bottle, xylophone, yellow block, zoo book.
3-4
Give each of th children one of the toys you have chosen from the alphabet and
have them go over to the mat and match up what letter there object starts with.
Have the children wait in circle time and help them out if they do not know which
letter it belongs to.
Middle of Activity
. Go through the alphabet while the children are putting their objects onto the
mat.
Early:
Since the ABCs with the children and hold up toys and have them say what
letter it is then
Middle:
Go through the abcs on the mat then hand out the objects to the children and
have them place them on the mat.
Later:
Have the children pick out the toys they want and place it on the ma
End of Activity
Go through the ABCs with the children and the objects that were placed on the
mat.
Follow-up Ideas
Tell the children everything starts with a different letter of the ABCs and all they
have to do is look for them.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? yes
What did the children do with the material specifically? put them on the letters
they thought the object started with
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of the alphabet
Did the children respond to the materials in the way you anticipated? yes
Oil and water bottles

Originating Idea:
Seeing that Water and oil dont mix
Curriculum Area
Science and technology
Materials:
Empty water bottles, oil, glitter, colored water
3-4
Show the children that certain things dont mix well together, like oil and
water they have components in them that will never let them mix together and will
always stay seperated
Middle of Activity
.have the children make the oil and water do not mix bottles by adding in all
the ingredients
Early:
Make the bottles with the children guiding them
Middle:
Have the children make the bottles on their own and shake them up to try
and mix it together
Later:
Have the children out together the bottles and decorate them
End of Activity
Discuss what the children see when the oil and water are out together
Follow-up Ideas
show children videos of oil and water not mixing together
Assessment:
What did the children do with the material specifically? put them together
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of certain things do
not mix together due to science
Past and present sorting

Originating Idea:
Knowing what happened today and in the past
Curriculum Area
Social studies
Materials:
5-6
Teach the children there is a difference between what happens to day or in the past.
The project they are going to do is put things in the today column they did so far
today and in the past column put things that they did yesterday to show them the
difference between past and present
Middle of Activity
Look over the childrens work and see how it is going explain things they did
yesterday with you and what they did today is the present
Early:
Have pictures of things the child did and they can glue is in today or past column
Middle:
Have the children color things they did in the past and today
Later:
Have the children write what they did in the past and today
End of Activity
Go over things the children wrote or did in the past and today
Follow-up Ideas
Go over there is also the future which is not today or the past but tomorrow
Assessment:
What did the children do with the material specifically? Make column of past and
today and put in the things they did into the correct places
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowing the difference of time in past
and present
Tie dye marble painting

Originating Idea:
Mixing colors together
Curriculum Area
Creative arts
Materials:
9x13 aluminum pans, glass marbles, paint, white paper.
3-4
Show the children that colors can sometime make oter colors when they are mixed
together. Red and blue make purple, yellow and blue make green.
Middle of Activity
Give the children the pans with paper marbles and paint and have them see what
different colors they can make.
Early:
Have the children marble paint with any colors they want and tie dye the paper and
have them see what happens
Middle:
Have the children marble paint and create different colors
Later:
The children can have different papers and make different colors with each one then
the last one hey can use all the colors and make a tie dye paper.
End of Activity
Show the children there pictures and all the different colors they made
Follow-up Ideas
Show them there are so many colors you can always make any color you want with
different variations of colors.
Assessment:
What did the children do with the material specifically? Marble paint
What did the children gain from the activity? Mixing colors together to create other
colors
Sink or float
Originating Idea:
Making predictions
Curriculum Area
Approaches to learning
Materials:
Bucket filled with water, medal spoon, plastic fork, medal toy car, rubber ball, paper
clip, screw.
4-5
Tell the children that they are learning about making predictions. Today they are
going to make predictions about whether they think the objects are going to sink or
float when places in water. Show the children the bucket of water and put out all the
small objects in front of them. on the right side of the bucket is a piece of paper that
says float and on the left side is a piece of paper that says sink. You lift up each
object for the child and have them guess if it will sink or float.
Middle of Activity
Have the children come up one by one and pick an object, let them predict if it will
sink or float and test out there prediction by dropping it in the water.
Early:
Show the children how certain objects such as a medal toy car will sink because it is
heavy whereas a rubber bouncy ball floats in the water because it is lighter and has
more air inside.
Middle:
Have the children come over and place the objects into the water and let
them see for themselves if they float or sink. Tell them when they make a choice or
say if it will sink or float that is called making predictions.
Later:
Go for a walk with children around the classroom and tell them you want them to
find two objects. One object they predict will float and the other object they will
predict that will sink. After gather for circle time around the bucket and have them
test out their predictions.
End of Activity
Go through the objects that either floated or sunk and ask the children why
they think that happened. See what there explanations are and why they predicted
certain objects would sink or float.
Follow-up Ideas
Show children different pictures of things that sink in water such as heavy weights
or cars and then show them pictures of things that float in water like bug boats and
ships and even sometime sea planes. Ask children questions about what they
learned about predicting if certain objects will either float or sink in circle time at
the end of the day.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes, the children were interested in making their
predictions and curious to see if they were right.
What did the children do with the material specifically? The children waited there
turn to be called to come up and place there object on the side they side they
predicted would happen when put into the bucket of water.
What did the children gain from the activity? The children gain a knowledge of
predicting what will happen to certain object, sometimes there predictions were
right and sometime they were wrong, so it helps children deal with disappointment
when they didnt get it right.
Would you have done anything differently if you could do this again? No everything
went really well with the way I planned the activity.
10.Name of Activity:
Lets bee beekeepers

Originating Idea:
Bees and the making of honey
Curriculum Area
Science
Materials:
Milk crate, foil, file folders, sun hat, painting smock, rubber gloves, face veil,
spatula, honey, papars, plate, mini pitcher, cups, straws, water, orange food
coloring.
4-5
Tell the children that they are learning about honey bees and bee keepers and
where honey comes from and how it is made. Teach them that bees take nectar
from flowers which then turns into honey and they make it into a honeycomb.
Middle of Activity
Have the children taste different kinds of honey, we used regular and whipped
honey, what differences they saw between the two and which they liked better.
Early:
Show the children pictures of bees and honey and how they make honey and store
it in their hive.
Middle:
Have the children dress up like bees and pretend to suck the nectar out of the
flowers. Have cups of orange water to look like nectar and then have them suck it
up with a straw and deposit the honey into a hive, (mini cups in a formation of a
bee hive).
Later:
Have the children dress up like bee keepers and smoke the bees so they will not
sing you, then take honey combs out of the bee hive you have made and then
scrape off honey which have been put on pieces of paper from the bee hive with a
spatula and put it on a plate.
End of Activity
Discuss with the children what they have learned about honey bees and
making honey and how bees take nectar from flowers and turn it into honey for us
to eat!
Follow-up Ideas
Show the children a video or pictures of real bee keepers getting honey from
bees or the bees going to flowers and making honey.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes, the children loved being bee keepers and
tasting honey.
What did the children do with the material specifically? They touched the honey and
tasted and. They pretended they were real bee keepers and gathered their own
honey.
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of how honey is made and
all the hard work bees have to go through to make honey.
11. Sponge shapes

Originating Idea:
learning shapes
Curriculum Area
Geometry
Materials:
Sponges cut into different shapes, paint, paper
4-5
Talk to the children in circle time about different shapes and what they look like and
the names of them.
Middle of Activity
Have the children go to the table and tell them to pick up the different shape
sponges and everyone should have their own, you tell them to pick up the circle
sponge and hold up a circle and have them dip the sponges in paint and stamp
them on their papers and continue with all the other hapes.
Early:
Show children pictures of shapes and tell them the names of the different shapes.
Middle:
Show the children pictures of objects that have shapes in them, such as a
house is made up of a triangle and square.
Later:
Read the children a book about shapes and show them objects and have them tell
you there shapes.
End of Activity
Discuss with the children that everything is made up of different shapes and
what are some things they can think of that have shapes in them?
Follow-up Ideas
Show the children a video or pictures of real bee keepers getting honey from
bees or the bees going to flowers and making honey.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes, the children enjoyed learning about different
shapes.
What did the children do with the material specifically? They used them for the
project and stamping them.
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge shapes.
12. Hot and cold

Originating Idea:
Opposites between hot and cold
Curriculum Area
Opposites/
Materials:
Hot water, cups, ice cubes, paper, crayons
4-5
Talk to the children in circle time about opposites such as hot and cold how summer
is hot and winter is cold and the different clothing we wear in the hot and cold
whether.
Middle of Activity
Pass around a cup of warm water and have the children poke a finger in I and tell
you what they feel and weather they think it is hot or cold. Then pass around ice
cubes for the children to feel and ask if it is hot or cold to them.
Early:
Have the children dress up in play cloths for when it is hot what they should wear
such as tshirts shorts sandals and when it is cold what they should wear such as
hat, scarf, gloves, coat.
Middle:
Have the children draw a cold scene on one side of the page such as winter and on
the opposite side a hot scene such as summer.
Later:
Read them a book about winter and summer and how drastically different hot and
cold are and what makes them such opposites.
End of Activity
Discuss with the children that everything has opposites not just hot and cold
but yes and no or loud and quite.
Follow-up Ideas: show the children different scenes in pictures and ask if they think
it is a hot scene or a cold scene.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes, the children enjoyed learning about opposites.
What did the children do with the material specifically? They used them to dress in
hot and cold weather and raw pictures.
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of opposites such as hot
and cold.
13. Pumpkin science

Originating Idea:
5 senses
Curriculum Area
Science
Materials:
Pumpkin,
4-5
Tell the children there going to experiment with their 5 senses today, explain to
them the concept of touch, taste, sight, smell, and sound with a pumpkin. Cut the
pumpkin open and show them what is inside and have them look in it and ask them
what they see, pass it around and ask them if they hear anything, then have then
feel inside and then see if they can smell anything. When that is all finished tell
them you are going to make the pumpkin seeds so you will be able to finish the last
step of the 5 senses.
Middle of Activity
Take out the pumpkin and ask the children What is inside a pumpkin? Let the
children explore the insides of a pumpkin. It's a great sensory experience. Save the
pumpkin seeds from a pumpkin. Boil 2 cups seeds in 1 quart water with 2 tbs salt
for 10 minutes. Drain the seeds and toss them in 1 tbsp of butter. Spread the seeds
on a baking pan, and bake for 30 minutes. Stir frequently.
Early:
Bring a gutted out pumpkin to school and the seeds already precooked and go
through the 5 senses with them.
Middle:
Have the children taste the baked seeds and ask them what they taste like.
Later:
On a piece of poster board ask the children what the pumpkin looked, smelled,
tastes, sounded, and felt like and write it and then hang it up with their answers on
it.
End of Activity
have the children discuss what they learned about their five
senses and how they liked experimenting with the pumpkin.
Follow-up Ideas: have the children draw a picture of them representing them using
there five senses.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes, the children enjoyed learning about their five
senses.
What did the children do with the material specifically? They used them to discover
their five senses.
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of the five senses.
15.
Number fun
Originating Idea:
Counting
Curriculum Area
math
Materials:
Muffin tins, circle stickers with number 1-12 on them, place them on the bottom of 2
muffin tins, assorted small cotton balls.
4-5
Teach the children about numbers and counting, sing 5 little monkeys jumping on
the bed to show them how to count.
Middle of Activity
Have the children take turn and a couple at a time have them sit at a table with the
numbered muffin tins and cotton balls and show them that they should put each
number of cotton balls as the number in the tin says, they will count out the
numbers of the cotton balls needed to be places in the tins and helps them learn
there counting skills
Early:
Give the children each a pile of cotton balls and have them count out their pile and
write down on a big piece of paper there name and number they counted.
Middle:
Have the children take out the blocks or leggos and have them count how many
they have all together as a small group.
Later:
Have the children count up there cotton balls in the tins and see how many they
had all together then on a piece of paper have them write down there name and
number they counted total.
End of Activity
they all counted.
go over with the children there results of how many cotton balls
Follow-up Ideas: have the children count other objects in the classroom together
and read a book about counting.
Assessment:
Did plans meet your objectives? Yes, the children enjoyed learning about counting
and sorting them into their muffin tins.
What did the children do with the material specifically? They used them to learn
how to count.
What did the children gain from the activity? Knowledge of counting.

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Tie dye marble painting

Lets bee beekeepers

11. Sponge shapes

12. Hot and cold

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