Lesson Plan

TITLE: There’s a Zoo in Room 22
GRADE LEVEL: Second Grade


SUBJECT: Science and Language arts


Lesson Overview
The Lesson is for the students to learn about the different types of animals that are in the zoo. The lesson is also for them to learn about what parts of the world the animals come from. They will use the computer to look for animals and print them out.

Goals and Objectives
The goal for this lesson is for the students to engage to find different animals that they like and discover what types of food and what part of the world they live in. The students will be able to use technology to help them in their investigation. They will be able to travel the world and find endless counts of animals that they will enjoy. They will also be able to investigate what types of noises the animals make as well as see their movements they make. The students will also get knowledge of the types of names the animals have. They will have a virtual view and use their imagination to pretend that they are there. By incorporating technology it will be amazing to actually see the animals close up and hear them through the headphones.

Audience
The grade level that this is for is second grade. Second grade is ready to explore the world of and the different animals it contains in it. Not only to find out what letter it begins with but what types of sounds the animals produce.

Time Frame
The time frame of this lesson is two weeks period. For 30 minutes a day if time permits then 45 minutes a day so the students have time to find different animals.

Prerequisite Skills


Students need to have been exposed to a number of strategies used in problem solving – in particular, breaking problems into small parts and working backwards.

Students need to have mastered addition of fractions with unlike denominators.

Students need to know how to turn on the computer and launch the application.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
Identify the state-mandated TEKS for the specific curriculum being addressed as well as others that might be integrated into your lesson plan (for example technology applications). The Technology Application Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills are available online at www.tcet.unt.edu. Look under the START project. You can also link to TEA from the START site to view TEKS for other subject areas.

Materials Needed
This section should be a complete list of what is needed to complete the lesson. Both materials needed by the teacher and materials needed by the student should be included, probably in separate parts of this section.

Teacher:
Teacher materials should include all print materials. A computer to help the children and also needs to help find some animals.

Student:

Student materials
1. a floppy disk drive (if the digital camera, like the Sony line, records directly to floppy disk)
2. a cable connection (preferably USB, which is much faster than older serial cables)
3. using a special card reader designed for a specific camera's removable media type
4. Films, filmstrips, or slides about animals. (Must include all 5 categories of animals.)
5. Live or mounted animals from each category. (State Division of Wildlife Agency and public zoos may be able to help you find these.)
6. Magazines: 2 per child (Make sure the magazines have plenty of animal pictures in them.)
7. Scissors


Activities and Procedures
The activities and procedure are as fallowed tell the children that they will be taking a trip to visit the different animals from the different parts of the world. Discuss with students the process of separating animals into groups or categories so that they are more easily studied and discussed by scientists and others. Explain that the following activity will help students learn about the categories of animals. * Do not give any clues at this time as to how animals are to be categorized. Students will come up with their own distinctive system of grouping. Then the children will make a PowerPoint slide with their favorite animal they choose and it will have the sound of the animal they liked best.


Evaluation
The evaluation section should include both formative and summative evaluation schemes. It should address ways in which teachers can determine if the objectives of the lesson have been achieved. This section should go beyond traditional testing and should give teachers suggestions about how to determine the extent of student learning when exposed to new technology, etc.

Teaching Suggestions (optional)
This section is to include ideas that, while not necessary to the lesson, might enhance the learning or interest of students. Ideas presented here often come out of the experience of a teacher who has taught the lesson. These ideas could include such things as unusual ways to present material, ways to increase student ownership of the lesson material, extensions into other classes or disciplines, etc. It is likely that this section will be added to the lesson plan after a teacher has had some experience with the lesson.

Follow-up/Extension
Here the plan should address the ways in which the lesson can be tied to other disciplines and/or extended. It should examine how this material can be used to enhance the teaching of other subject areas and make any cross-curricular connections. In this section of the plan, ways to follow up things that were "sparked" during the lesson should be discussed.