Lesson Plan

Activity Name: Flowers

Approximate Length of Experience: 10 minutes

Age and Number of Children: 6 four-year-olds

Goal: To understand the process of flower pollination involving bees.

Domain: Cognitive, Language

Content:

1. Facts: How do the bees pollinate flowers?

Vocabulary: pollinate, land, slip, pollen sacs, move, themselves, carry.

Objectives: Participation in this activity will increase the child’s ability to

1. Identify the different characteristics of flowers.

2. Demonstrate how the bee flies.

3. Demonstrate how the bee pollinates flowers.

Material: Teacher premade shape of 3 bees (there are two small holes in the bee’s belly,

children can put their fingers through, pretend to be bee’s legs) and 3 flowers (has the stem for

children to hold).

Procedure: Start the lesson by showing a picture with a bee standing on a flower, asking the

children, “What can you see in this picture?” (Memory) If children can identify bee and flower.

Ask one more question, “Do you know what kind of relationships between them?” (Divergent)
When children say they are friends, the teacher continues saying “Yes, they are friends and they

help each other. Today we are going to invite those friends to our classroom (showing the

premade bees and flowers)”

Next, pointing at the picture with the bee and flower on it, ask the children, “Can anybody tell

me what is the bee doing?” (Evaluation) After the children give the answer, tell them, “We are

going to pretend to be flowers and bees, and our bees will carry pollen from one flower to

another flower.” “Who wants to be a flower, raise your hand?” “Who wants to be a little bee,

raise your hand?” Put children into two groups (flower group, bee group).

Give each child a flower or a bee, depending on which group they choose. Let children explore

with them a little bit. Ask one child who gets a bee, “I saw two little holes in your bee’s belly,

what do you think that is for?” (Convergent) If children can figure out to put their two fingers

through, make them look like bee’s two little legs. Move to next section. Ask another child who

got a flower, and asking “You are going to be a pretty flower, can you tell me what your color

is?” (Memory) Once the child answered the question, the teacher continues to ask one more

question, “Do you think bees going to like the ____ color (the color child just said)?” (Memory)

“Is there any other characteristic that flower has can attract the bees?” (Divergent) If the

children cannot get the answer, give them a hint by asking, “Does the flower smell good or

bad?”(Memory)

By the end, let the children fly around and pretend to be the bees who are pollinating the flowers.

Ask children if they want to exchange the role. Let each child pretend to be both flower and bee.
Extension: If children are very interested in this activity, the teacher can let the children explain

the steps “how do the bees pollinate the flowers” to her. The teacher will write the story down,

and let the children add some pictures on it. They can put this little book in their library.

Simplification: Instead of asking difficult questions teacher may ask some easier questions, or

teacher can ask some question that the right answer is included, either this one or another one.

Evaluation: Direct Observation and Photographs

What Next: If this lesson plan goes well, the next lesson plan will be focus on the relationship

between bees and flowers. Also how honey has been made.

Evaluation of appropriateness of the category (type) of questions used:

I believe all the questions are appropriate for this age group, because all the questions encourage

children to think independently. By answering this questions, children’s language skill will also

be improved. The children can learn a lot new thing through playing.

The first thing is that this lesson plan may include too many questions, children may lose their

interests and get bored before the end. So probably I should make it simpler for the children.

Another thing is that some of the children may not have the basic knowledge about flowers and

bees, so it might be hard for them to figure out the pollination.