5E Lesson Plan

Teacher: Mr. Burk Bosse

Date: 4/17/2015

Subject/grade level: Science/ 2nd grade

Materials: text book, short video on beavers, color page, assessment, and discussion, crayons,
markers.

NC SCOS Essential Standards and Clarifying Objectives

Core Standard:
Observe, describe and ask questions about structures of organisms and how they affect their
growth and survival.
4. 3. 1 Observe, compare and record the physical characteristics of living plants or animals from
widely different environments. Describe how each plant or animal is adapted to its environment.

Lesson objective(s): Lesson objective is to introduce forest creatures children may have
questions about and/or may have no knowledge about and show how the animal affects the
environment.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: PowerPoints, field trip to History
Museum, grouping diverse learners with gifted and talented, color page.

ENGAGEMENT
The teacher will show a short video on beavers, ask questions to assess the students knowledge,
and explain to the students, if time allows coloring of a beaver coloring page.
The questions students should ask themselves is how does the beaver fit in the environment,
what would happen if there were no more beavers.

EXPLORATION
Students will be going on a field trip to a petting zoo, to pet a baby beaver, to watch a
documentary on beavers in the wild and taking a test to see what they have learned.
The teacher will ask students if they know what beavers do for the environment and how they do
it. What would happen if beavers took a long vacation and didnt help the environment?

EXPLANATION
The teacher will hand out an assessment and have the children answer the questions so the
teacher will know how much the students know about beavers. The teacher will use pictures to
see if the students recognize the animal.
The teacher will ask if the students know what the animal is, what it does, and where would the
students find it.

ELABORATION
Students will develop a more sophisticated understanding about beavers when they know the
importance of beavers to streams and rivers.
Scientific vocabulary will be used. It will connect to students observations when the next time
they see a beaver in a movie, commercial, or physically in a stream, should they go camping.
The knowledge would be applied to our daily lives, because the students will come away with a
deeper respect for nature and the woodland creatures.

EVALUATION
The students will demonstrate they have achieved the lesson objective thru testing their
knowledge, the posters they make for Earth Day and participation in class discussion about
beavers.