KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate:

Jordan Rassler and Tyler Wade Date: September 17, 2014

Cooperating Teacher: Professor Varano

Group Size: 20

Allotted Time

Coop. Initials

30-40 minutes Grade Level second grade

Subject or Topic: Lesson #1 Clean Environment

Section

MW 9-10:20

STANDARD:
4.5.3.B- Identify different types of pollution and their sources
4.5.3.D- Describe how waste is generated
I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes):
A. The second grade students will be able to identify different types of pollution
and their sources as well as describe how waste is generated by completing an
exit slip before leaving class.
II. Instructional Materials
A. Where Does Pollution Come From? By C. Vance Cast
B. Pencil
C. Graphic Organizers
D. PowerPoint
E. Pictures to hand out
F. Yes/No signs
G. Exit Slip

III. Subject Matter/Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea, outline of
additional content)
A. Prerequisite skills
Knowledge of human necessities and basic needs
B. Key Vocabulary
1. Environment- the conditions that surround someone or
something
2. Pollution- the action or process of making land, air, or water
dirty and not safe to use
3. Recycling- to use something again

4. Garbage- anything that is or ought to be discarded as worthless

5. Sources- the origin or cause of something
C. Big Idea
1. Why do we need to keep the environment clean and why is it
important?

D. Additional content
1. What is pollution and how do we keep the environment clean?
IV. Implementation
A. Introduction
1. To introduce the lesson the teacher will read Where Does
Pollution Come From?
2. The teacher will ask interactive questions to promote active
listening and check comprehension of the information and
introduction of the environment.
a. What is pollution?
b. What is affected by pollution?
c. How does pollution affect us?
d. Why do you think we need a clean environment?
B. Development
1. The teacher will show the students a PowerPoint of pollution
pictures from around the world.
2. The teacher will provide pictures from the PowerPoint to
groups of students.
3. The students will discuss in the picture provided in their group
and find describing words for the picture.
4. The teacher and students will use the describing words they
brainstormed to define pollution.
5. The teacher will introduce the three types of pollution by
verbally and visually explaining them.
6. The teacher will write the three types of pollution on the board
where the students will then come up and write examples of
each.
7. The teacher will then read the book, Where Does Pollution
Come From?
8. The students will fill in a graphic organizer to demonstrate
their knowledge of the types of pollution.
9. The teacher will then ask the students what is affected by
pollution and how pollution affects us.
10. The students will answer the questions in groups using yes/no
signs.

11. The teacher will ask why we need a clean environment. (If
students arent sure of answer, review).
12. The students will then complete an exit slip showing the
knowledge they now have after their lesson.
C. Closure
1. The teacher will review what the students learned in the lesson
a. Three types of pollution
b. Key vocabulary
D. Accommodations/Differentiation
1. To accommodate MR, a second grade boy with Auditory
Processing disorder, I will have the students work in groups to
help each other with note taking, vocabulary, and instruction.
2. I will also provide visual aids

E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
1. Formative
a. Exit slip
2. Summative
a. No summative for this lesson

V. Reflective Response
A. Report of Student Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives (Reflection on
student performance written after lesson is taught, includes remediation for
students who fail to meet acceptable level of achievement)

Remediation Plan

B. Personal Reflection (Questions written before lesson is taught. Reflective

answers to question recorded after lesson is taught)
1. What would we have done different?

2. Should we give ourselves more or less time for the lesson?

VI. Resources (in APA format)

Cast, C. (1994). Where Does Pollution Come From? Barron's Educational Series .

Pollution Exit Slip

1. What are the three types of pollution?

2. Give one reason why we need a clean environment?

Pollution

Type

Air

Land

Water

Define in your own words and give an example of each type of

pollution.