Lesson Name: Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Team Members: Natalie Miller, Caitlin Morgan, Rhini Angel, and Danielle Brunson
Grade Level: 1st Grade; Indy, Tyler, Alejandro, Alex, Ava and Anne.
Materials needed for lesson:

Brown Bear book

Pre Made worksheet
Ball with numbers labeled on it
Crayons/Markers/Colored Pencils

Arts Areas:
Visual Arts

Curricular Areas:
Literacy:The students will be listening to a book.
The students will be writing what kind of animal they are drawing and different
words.

Multiple Intelligences:
Visual- The students will be drawing/coloring themselves and an animal. They will also be focusing on the
book while their Expressive Arts buddy reads it to them.
Verbal- The students will be listening to a book being read to them and will be using wordplay. Each
student will be talking back and forth with their Expressive Arts buddy.
Intrapersonal- The students are working alone on their own page and using their own thinking to problem
solve and to create.
Interpersonal- The students will be sharing with others and working together along with their Expressive
Arts buddy.

Objectives:
The students will get to know their Expressive Arts buddy.
The student will create a picture of themselves with an animal.
The students will verbally explain to their Expressive Arts buddy and their peers why they chose to draw
that specific animal they did.

Standards:
Arts Standards:
The student will show an understanding and apply media, techniques, and processes.
The student will make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
The student will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their works and the work of
others.

Curricular:
Iowa Core (literacy, math, and science for 1st grade)
In first grade math, students learn the operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations in base
ten, measurement and data, and geometry.

In kindergarten through fifth grade literacy students will learn how to read, write, speak, listening, and
language.
In kindergarten through second grade science students will learn to use math and science, create
experiments, find and use data, construct explanations and effectively communicate experiments and
explanations with others.

Academic Language:
In regards to academic language development at the first grade level, our activity emphasizes the
importance of students gaining an understanding of how to communicate their thoughts through writing.
Specifically, students will work on sentence structure. They will gain competence in capitalization,
punctuation and spacing of words.
Students will be required to draw a picture and write a sentence about their drawing. Writing a sentence
below their picture will give students the opportunity to give their drawings a narration. It will help them
with story writing and communicating their thoughts and ideas with others. Sentences will need to be
complete and spelling should be to the best of their ability.

Engage:

To engage students and introduce everyone, we will have a ball with different numbers on it. For each
number, we have a question written down on a separate piece of paper that we will ask and the student
will answer. This helps us all get to know more about each other and breaks the ice. We will toss the ball
to each other and the number that our hand is closest to is the question that we will answer. Some
questions we might have written down could include:
How many siblings do you have?
How old are you?
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Whats your favorite color?
What month is your birthday?
We could also use the ball for other activities later because we could write down other questions that
coordinate with the numbers.

Teaching-Presentation:
Explore:
The Expressive Arts buddies will start out by reading the book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear. After we finish
reading the book we will ask a number of different questions like: Think about your life and the animals
you have seen before. How many of you have been to a zoo? What animals live there? Do you have any
pets? Are they inside or outside animals? What is your favorite animal and why? What kind of animals
have you read about in books or learned about in science class?

Explain:
The student will draw a picture of their favorite animal and a self-portrait. They will then work together with
their Expressive Arts buddy to form a sentence describing their animal. Students will then present their
drawings within the group and describe their work. During this time students can also ask their Expressive
Arts buddy questions. A model will be provided for the students to reference to.

Independent Practice, Application, and Assessment:

Elaborate/Apply:
After reading the book, the students are going be given a worksheet that asks them what their favorite

animal is. The student will draw that animal on the page and write a sentence about it. The student will be
able to use the examples from the book to help them create their own page to find inspiration.

Evaluate:
The students, along with their Expressive Arts buddy, will share their worksheet with the rest of the group.
Each student will talk about what they drew and what they learned about each other.

Closure:
At this time each student will say 1 or 2 things that they liked about this lesson and what they learned
about their Expressive Arts buddy. Then the Expressive Arts buddy will do the same thing about each
student. Leaving the last few minutes open for the students to ask any questions they may have. Make
sure the Expressive Arts buddy celebrates the students projects.

Lesson Implementation: Creativity/Student Engagement:

The students will be creative when they draw a picture of their favorite animal. Students will be engaged
during the energizer when we toss around the ball and ask different questions. They will also be engaged
when we read them the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear by looking at pictures and participating in
discussion about the book.