CDA Lesson Plan Form

Name________________________________ Classroom Level

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Theme_______________________________ Date of
Implementation___________

Developmental Goals:
Learning pro-social skills along with emotional
Iowa Early Learning Standards:

10.4 relationships with children

10.1 self
13.1 art 13.3 dramatic play
9.3 reasoning and problem solving
9.4 play and scenes
11.1 language understanding and use
Learning Objectives:
Students will get along with others, accept others ideas and
emotions, talk about feelings with one another
Materials Needed:
Mad
Sad
Happy
Scared

Spinner with 4 different sections, make a few your own for

them to do

Motivation/Introduction: talk about emotions and the

mixture of them, how there are more than what we are gonna
talk about but these are the basic

Procedures: make the spinners

Modeling/Guided Practice: (show, follow me)?

Spin the spinner, act out the emotion or talk about that emotion
Ex: if it landed on happy I would smile, and say that the kids are happy
when they get candy or extra recess

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 Checking for Understanding (specific questions you will ask)?

Have them repeat what they are going to do and state their group rules

Independent Work
Thinking about the emotion they spinned, then sharing to the
groups
Closure/Transition:

Come Back together and talk about their emotions, if they

know the name of the other emotions. Switch to another
center by combining them

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