IT Project:

Lesson Plan Template

Ariel Kohll, Madison Lowe, Jamie Reed, Emily Turner
Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV94XLYavaQ

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Subject
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Unit
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Introduction

Technology
Uses/Materials
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Objectives

Preparing the
Student
Assessment of
Student
Learning

Lesson
Sequence

Fourth Grade
Poetry
Fourth Grade Reading and Writing
Haikus
Nature Haikus
Print: Textbook
Non-print: YouTube videos
NE (Nebraska) Standards
Completing this lesson, students will meet the Nebraska Standards. They will master the
skills in the writing process using planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
skills. This lesson requires specific prewriting skills as well. Also they are writing Haiku
poems, which meets the requirement of writing in all types of modes for all types of
purposes.
Students will be writing nature inspired haikus. This lets them write in a new mode, as
well as broaden their use of adjectives. They will be writing their own poems but they
will all be inspired by the same video, providing them with a unique view on how
everyone sees something different than they might.
YouTube will be used to show the students videos of nature so that they may be inspired
by nature to write their haikus.
Objective 1: Learn what a nature haiku is and how to write one.
Objective 2: Broaden their use of writing modes.
Objective 3: Public speaking; sharing their poems in front of the class.
To prepare the student for this lesson they will need to know what adjectives and
syllables are. They will also need to know how to write the haiku before beginning their
own.
Create: Students will use the videos as inspiration to write their own poems and present
them to the class
Evaluate: Students must evaluate the material shown to use for their work, and also
evaluate others work to check for syllable count.
Analyze: Students will analyze syllable count and creative adjectives
Apply: Students will need to apply the information they have learned in past poetry lesson
about similes and metaphors to this project
Understand: Students must understand the assignment and how to count syllables
Remember: Students must remember past poetry knowledge
Overall students will learn by trying it themselves and sharing with their peers for help.
This will be good practice for future writing assignments.
1. Students will review as a class how to write a haiku by discussing what a syllable
is, how to clap out syllables, and learning the 5-7-5 rule of haikus.
2. The iMovie will be shown to review steps in haiku writing process
3. Students will count out syllables in the poems they read the previous day in their
textbook. This will show them the 5-7-5 rule in action.
4. Students will watch a nature video and write down adjectives and objects that they
observe.

Measurement
of Success

5. As a class, we will write a haiku with the adjective list we made.

6. Another nature video will be shown and students will repeat the process on their
own
7. Students will share their own haiku with the class
Success on this project will be measured by how well the student listened in class time
and worked on their poem, and also how well they followed the 5-7-5 rule. Metacognition
can be applied because students will have to think about thinking when it comes to
applying past knowledge to this lesson. Students will share their poems with the class and
the class will clap out their syllables and help them decide if they are meeting the 5-7-5
rule, and if not, how they can add or delete words to make the lines work.