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Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Plan

Name: Peyton Bernard Lesson Title: Physical Fish

Date: April 25, 2017 Grade Level: Pre-Kindergarten
Standards/Guidelines: Physical Well-Being: Body Awareness: Identify and describe the function of body parts.
Science Inquiry & Application: Inquiry: Explore objects, materials and events in the environment.
Science Inquiry & Application: Inquiry: Make careful observations
Science Inquiry & Application: Inquiry: Engage in simple investigations
Science Inquiry & Application: Inquiry: Record observations using words, pictures, charts, graphs, etc
Motor Development: Small Muscle: Touch, Grasp, Reach, Manipulate: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate
objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Students have had the book Swimmy by: Leo Lionni
Students have watched a video about schooling fish & then moved around the classroom as a group of schooling fish
Students drew pictures of their classroom fish in their fish journal
Students were introduced to books about fish body parts labeling them as a class and discussing how they help
fish swim
Students were given pictures of fish to label and added to their fish journal
Students went fishing and worked on fine motor skills, color recall and counting

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
Explain the function of body parts
fins: help swim
scales: like skin, protective
layer
Explore the fish with their hands,
allowing them to have a hands-on
approach
Make observations about the fish
smell, texture, physical
attributes
Engage in the investigation of the
fish, allowing for them to touch it
and make observations
Tell us verbally attributes of the
fish, then being documented for
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and Scales
skill?) Fins
Gills
Take pictures and use a checklist Tail
As evidence to determine if the students have met the Eye
objectives, the educator should take pictures throughout Mouth
the activity, create a checklist to document throughout the Dorsal
process which students are mastering and which students Pectoral
seem to be struggling with the concepts. And at the end of
the lesson, review what has been documented throughout Procedural steps:
the activity.
Students will be split into two groups to allow more room
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile around the table for students to have a good view and be
your evidence into a class or group view? This is not how able to be hands on.
to display childrens work) Brought in by the teacher real fish from the supermarket
are placed in front of the students.
Use the checklist to observe and look at the whole group The students are then asked about different parts of the fish
-Identify through a checklist which students have grasped pre-investigation questions
and understand the different parts of a fish, and are able to The students are then encouraged to touch and handle the
communicate it verbally. fish, allowing for them to be hands on.
The teacher then goes over the different parts of the fish,
Analysis: (What have you learned about your students? asking questions to encourage student questions and
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Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Plan

the students to see. How will this inform future instruction?) answers.

One Assessed Developmental
Skill: (Social, Emotional, Physical,
Language, or Cognitive)
Language: Students will be able to
use their verbal skills to express to
peers and the teachers what they
have explored and discovered
while handling and exploring the
fish.
Safety Considerations:
Teachers should be aware of the
students crowding around the fish,
along with preventing the students
from putting their hands in their
mouths while handling the fish.
After this lesson, an educator should have a good idea of Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
his/her students knowledge and understanding of basic materials.)
functions of fish anatomy (fins, gills, scales, tail) -Physical Fish (quantity may vary depending on class size)
For future instruction, the educator can incorporate these -Pan for fish to be placed on
words (colors and counting) into daily discussion or -Soup & Water have students wash hands thoroughly
questions for those that may be struggling. Along with before and after handling
incorporating activities that may encourage the use of fine
motor skills.
For those that are more advanced, the educator could have Adult Roles:
the student answer questions on a worksheet, or have Adults should supervise the student to oversee that they are
them verbally express to the teacher what different parts of sharing the fish and everyone is able to touch if they want to
the fish help them/what theyre used for? Supervise that students dont put their hand in their mouth
For those struggling, the teacher could have them work
with a partner to help express what different parts of the
fish do, or present them with a fish that is not real.
For those with special needs, the teacher could give them
their own fish (if expenses allow) allowing them to not be
overcrowded and allowing them to move at their own pace.

Resources & Reference:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/learning/kids/?cid=fsbdev2_027478
http://study.com/academy/lesson/fish-anatomy-lesson-for-kids.html
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