Lesson Plan Format

School of Education
The College of New Jersey

1. Title or Topic of the Lesson and Grade Level

Class Collection: Collecting Objects
Kindergarten

2. Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is an item?
What is a collection?
What is the relationship between items and collections?
What are different ways to count items/collections?
What is a table?
What are tables used for?

3. Standards:
CC.2.1.K.A.1: Know number names and write and recite the count sequence.
CC.2.4.K.A.4: Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
4.
Learning Objectives Assessments
Students will be able to define and explain Students will identify what kind of
what an item is and what a collection is. collection is present and what kind of items
make up the given collection. They will do
this during the class worksheet and during
the stations activity.
Students will be able to determine and Students will be able to identify that a
understand the relationship between items group of related items make up a collection
and collections. through the stations activity.
Students will be able to utilize different Students will properly use different
strategies to count the number of items in a counting strategies during the stations
collection. activity.
Students will be able to define and explain Students will identify what a table is and
what a table is. how students use it.
Students will be able to use tables Students will properly use the table
effectively. worksheet to record their answers from the
stations activity.

5. Materials:
Containers for Items
Classroom Items for Containers
Cookie Collection: Counting Worksheet
Class Collection Table Worksheet
Thermometer-style Number Display
 PowerPoint
Projector
Pencils
Number Grid Reference Sheet

6. Pre-lesson assignments and/or prior knowledge:

Students have had practice with counting and have been exposed to various methods of
counting. Students have been exposed to tables before, but in this lesson I will urge them
to make sense of why tables are used and how they are helpful.

7. Lesson Beginning:
As always, before beginning the lesson, behavior expectations will be reviewed with the
students. To introduce the lesson, Ms. Sytsma will begin with her PowerPoint
presentation. Her PowerPoint will first show several images of common collections (rock
collection, baseball card collection, coin collection, etc.). Once the students are able to
identify the term collection, Ms. Sytsma will ask the students if they collect anything or
know someone who has a collection. Following that discussion, Ms. Sytsma will ask the
students what the singular parts of the collection are called. Ms. Sytsma will prompt the
students will questions until they are able to generate the term item. Ms. Sytsma will
explain to her students that often times when people have collections, they are curious as
to how many items they have in their collection. She will explain to her students that
there are many different ways to count the items in a collection.

8. Instructional Plan:
First, Ms. Sytsma will complete a worksheet with the class. Throughout the worksheet, 4
strategies will be modeled for students: counting scattered items by 1; counting on;
grouping and counting by 2s, 5s and 10s; and using a number line.
There will be 2 different examples for each strategy on the worksheet. The first example
for every strategy will be explicitly molded for the students. The second example for each
strategy will be completed as a class. Once the worksheet has been completed, students
will be able to keep them at their seats as a reference for the next activity.
In the next activity, students will rotate from table to table to different stations. There will
be 4 stations, and each of the 4 stations will use a different counting strategy. Each station
will have a teacher supervisor there to help prompt and support students. Before going to
each station, students will be given a table worksheet to record their findings. The teacher
will explain what a table is and how to use it. Each of the stations will be thoroughly
explained.
o Station 1: Counting by 1s Each student will have a container filled with a
different number of warm fuzzies. Each student will count the warm fuzzies in
their container using the counting by 1 strategy. To count by 1s, students will line
up the objects as they are counting them. Each student will visit all containers.
Students will record their findings in the tables provided for them.
o Station 2: Counting on Each student will have a container with popsicle sticks.
They will have a grouping of popsicle sticks in a rubber band with a number
attached to it. In addition to the grouping of popsicle sticks, there will also be
 loose popsicle sticks. Students will begin with the popsicle stick group number
and count up from there. Each student will visit all containers. Students will
record their findings in the tables provided for them.
o Station 3- Grouping and Counting by 2, 5 and 10 Students will meet on the
carpet. Each student will be asked to find a group of blocks and sit down in front
of it. At each group of blocks, students will be given a prompt to group the blocks
by 2s, 5s or 10s. Once the blocks are grouped, students will need to count the
blocks by 2, 5 or 10 and record it onto their table worksheet. Each student will
visit all block stations.
o Station 4- Using a number line Students will be given a variety of coins and a
number line. Students will practice counting coins by placing them on the number
line and counting them 1 by 1. Each student will visit all containers. They will
record their findings on their table worksheet.

9. Closure:
When the students have finished circulating to all the different centers, Ms. Sytsma will
ask students to think about what their favorite counting strategy is and why, pair up with
a partner at their table to discuss it, and then share it with the class. Ms. Sytsma will ask
for a student volunteer to come up and model the strategy they chose under the document
camera for the whole class to see. As a class Ms. Sytsma and the students will discuss
whether the volunteer demonstrated the counting strategy correctly.
Ms. Sytsma will end her lesson by encouraging students to start their own collections of
something that they are interested in and keep track of their collections using the
strategies that were discussed! If the students do not have anything that they are
interested in collecting, Ms. Sytsma will encourage them to collect recyclable items such
as water bottles and keep track of how they are helping the Earth!