Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan 1

Alphabetical War (card game) http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAAlphabeticalWarCardGameIdeaP1.htm

Project Name: Using a “game” to increase the understanding of vocabulary.

Description of Learning Goals and Standards:
The students will be able to understand fully the definition of given vocabulary word. The QCC for this lesson in grade one is 1.12.Increase vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interest and knowledge. The technology used will be Power Point slides to drill the vocabulary along with a worksheet. This will be set up as a center and pictures on slides will be used as context clues. The worksheet will allow for the students to match the definition.

Rational for Technology:
I feel that vocabulary often becomes redundant in the classroom. I think that using Power Point with a worksheet to accompany it will help raise the interest level. This lesson will help the teacher to evaluate the individual students understanding of the vocabulary. The advantages of using this lesson would be that the students would enjoy it. This lesson would be very interactive and a great way to the teacher to measure the progress of the class on a individual basis. The downfalls to this lesson are that the Power Point Center would take very close supervision and attention of the teacher. It would be helpful to have an extra adult during this lesson.

Description of Lesson Implementation:
The Steps to setting up this lesson:
1.Using the vocabulary being studied create a Power Point slide show with the words in random order. Add pictures to give clues.
2. Create a worksheet to accompany the lesson. The worksheet will have written out the definitions on one side. On the other side have a place to write out the correct word. The students will find the correct definition as they see on the slide show.
3. In the classroom use this activity as a center. Only 2/3 students at the computer at a time, this center needs to be supervised.
4. The students can work together but each student will turn in an individual worksheet.
This activity will be done with time constraints if using centers so keep that in mind when choosing the vocabulary for slides.
If your classroom had more than one computer the teacher could set it up more like the game “war” but for such young students I have used the lesson plan’s big idea and modified it to young students.

Assessment:
The students would be assessed based on their performance on the individual worksheets. This would measure their understanding of the vocabulary. The teacher would have to assess the activity/center based all on observation. It will be very important to be available to help with the technology. As the teacher you will need to decide if this activity was a success in your classroom. This activity should be used to break up the cycle of studying vocabulary.

Other Places to use this Solution:
This lesson could be used in all different subjects. I think using power point as flash cards is a very useful tool.

Improve Next Time: I would like to improve the amount of information be used on each power point slide. A goal for my classroom would be to get the student comfortable enough with power point that the worksheets could be eliminated. The worksheets are good for beginner but older children would not need a worksheet. It would be great to use this lesson in an entire classroom setting (on the projector).

Lesson Plan 2

Word Identification and Recongnistion
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAWordIDPatternsGoodnightMoonK1.htm
Project Name: Using a Story to Increase Word Recognition.

Learning Goals:
The students will be able to identify words chosen out of a studied story. The words chosen will have to appear more than one time throughout the story. A student will be responsible for recognizing his/her word at the conclusion of the lesson. The student will then write his/her word on the class blog and describe it. (I.e. the first and last letter, the sounds etc.) This is important for extending vocabulary but very helpful for sight words. The QCC that fits this lesson for grade one is 1.14: Classifies and categorizes words into sets and groups with common characteristics.

Rational for Technology:
The students will describe the word they were given during the exercise on the class blog. Your class will also feel very proud and take ownership of their writing and that word. The blog lines will truly make the exercise more fun. This will help the parents know what the class has studied. It is helpful for the parents to use the blog to keep up with weekly activities and know what their child has done.

Description of Lesson Plan Implemented:
The class will study a story. (The given lesson plan uses Goodnight Moon.)
1. The teacher chooses a story with a lot of repeated words.
2. The teacher will read the story to the class.
3. The teacher will write each word on index cards. On half of the cards the words are written and the other half will be the corresponding picture.
4. The cards will be passed out among the class. (Some students will get word cards and other will get the matching picture.)
5. The students will have to find their partner throughout the class and match the word with the picture.
6. These students are now partners. They need to look at the word and picture and determine what letter it starts and ends with, the vowels, etc.
7. The teacher will reread the book. The students will now recognize they word they studied and read their certain word aloud.
8. Now, the students will each write about their words they learned from this lesson on the class blog. On the blog the students will write fun facts about the word and the story.
(This will take a lot of class time and require a lot of attention from the teacher especially the typing part.)

Assessment:
This lesson can be assessed based mainly on teacher observation. The written work should be reviewed but not necessarily graded. The students could also complete a worksheet with the studied words and questions about the story to test for better understanding of the content.

Other Places to use this Lesson:
This lesson could be used in all content area where new vocabulary is being introduced. A teacher could modify this lesson to fit most age groups. The young students will of course like it better but the older ones could always benefit from it.

Needs Improvement….
I see the finding your match as the main problem with this lesson. I think that the movement in the class room should be kept to a minimum. I think the best place for the students to be in on the rug. Then they can move in that area with out involving the desk etc.