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Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas

SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template
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Ms. Daniele F. Smail

Science
First grade

Every life cycle of animals and plants all

different.
The habit the animals live in affect the way
they live.

Essential
Questions

Why do the habits the animals live in affect

their life cycle?

PA/Common
Core/Standards

3.1a.3 Identify stages of life cycle of

animals( especiall butterflies)
CC.1.2.1.I- Identify basic similarities in and
differences between two texts on the same
topic.
CC.1.3.1.A- Retell stories, including key details,
and demonstrate understanding of their central
message or lesson.

Objective

Formative
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The first grade students will be able to identify

the life cycles of animals especially a butterfly
in group work three out of five times.
Formative- In whole group the students will
identify the life cycle of animals before learning
the life cycle of a butterfly.
Summative- Children will identify the parts of a
butterflies life cycle using the smartboard for
squencing.

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Assessment
Evidence

ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning

Accommodations,
Modifications

Students will listen to a song on a radio. The

song is to get the children inspired to learn
about butterflies and to learn how special a
butterfly really is.
I will use the elmo to go through all the lab
sheets the children got to do in their centers.
I will also use the smartboard for the
sequencing. The children will be able to come
up to the smart board to put the pictures in
order.
Faith will be able to work with a buddy if
needed.
All directions will have pictures to help Faith
with her reading disability.

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-byStep Procedures

RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

The last lesson was habit and environment to help introduction of

why habits are so important to life cycles.

Activating Prior Knowledge

Reveiw of yesterdays lesson.
Talk about animals life cycle. What is first adulthood or
childhood.
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Good Morning Class! We have another exciting science
class today. First lets review what we did yesterday
before we start our lesson for today. I have a song for us
to listen to today and we have centers to go to for our
lesson.
Song Dolly Parton's " Love is Like a Butterfly"
Big Idea Statement
The life cycle of a butterfly is one of the most beautiful
cycle.
Essential Questions Statement
What is your favorite thing about the butterfly life cycle?
Objective Statement
Children will be able to identify the life cycle of a

butterfly.
Transition
Okay we are going to fly like butterflies to our centers
when I call your group.
Key Vocabulary

Lesson
Procedure

egg
Larva/caterpillar
Pupa/Chrysalis
Butterfly

PreAssessment of Students
Children will be assessed on prior knowledge by whole
group descussion of habits and what animals live in
those habits and why where they live affects them.
Modeling of the Concept
I will go through each center with the children of what
they are to do at each center. I will read the directions
and preview each center with an example of the activity.
Guiding the Practice
I will go around to each group and have a converation
with each group of what they have learned and what
they thing of the activity.
Providing the Independent Practice
The children will do their own sequence paper at a
center to show what they have learned.
Transition
Now that we are all done with our centers lets crawl back to
our desk like a ceterpillar.

Reading
Radio to play the song
Materials
Computer to play a game about caterpillars
Technology
Smartboard
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
During the lesson the children will have many
Learning/Master
opportunities to show what they know and what they
y of the Concept
have learned.
Informal Evaluation
Giving Guidance as needed
Closure

Summary & Review of the Learning

At the end the children will have a chance to come to
the smartboard to do different types of sequences of life
cycles.
Get Job Everyone! We had another fun class and
everyone did wonderful.
Homework/Assignments
No homework

Teacher
Self-reflection