2013-2014

UMU Lesson Plan Template

Name: Lauren Beil Date: Tuesday October 29, 2013

Grade Level: Kindergarten Class Period: N/A
Subject: Science Lesson # & Title: Sink or Float Small Group
Prediction/ Lesson 4
Big Idea/Lesson Focus: Sinking and Floating
Essential Question: Will it sink or float?

Context for Learning:

There are 22 students, 9 males and 13 females, in a suburban kindergarten classroom. The students
range in age from 4-6 years old. There is one ELL student, but there is no affect or changes needed in
the classroom. There are no at risk or students on IEP’s in the classroom.

Function of the Lesson (check all that apply):

Introduce New Skill or Content Review
Practice  Remediation/Reteaching

Content Standards:
ELA.K.3.5. Predict what will happen next, using pictures and events.

Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to use pictures to predict by drawing an image of the number of plastic bear
manipulatives they predict their aluminum foil boat will hold with 100% accuracy.

Academic Language (or A.L. Demands, A.L. Objectives):

Students will be able to effectively use the following words in a sentence: science, predict, sink, float,
experiment, object, next, create.

Instructional Materials and Support:

Worksheets, crayons, pencils, foil.

Prior Knowledge:
The teacher will review the sink and float items they tested from the previous lesson reviewing what
items sank and float and why the items sank and float.

Assessments:
 Pre-Assessment for the unit: N/A
 Assessment(s) during the lesson: The students will complete a worksheet drawing images of
items of their prediction of how many bear manipulatives their foil boat will be able to hold.
 Assessment(s) at the end of the lesson: N/A
 Post-Assessment for the unit N/A
 Strategies & Learning Tasks

Introduction: The teacher will be working with small groups of 4 students at a time through the
lesson. The teacher will review with the students what it means to predict, making a guess about
something. The teacher will then review examples of items that sunk and items that floated from
the previous lesson. (5 min.)

Presentation/Explicit Instruction: The teacher will show the students that they will each be
making a foil boat from aluminum foil and they will be predicting how many bear manipulatives
their boat will be able to hold. The teacher will show the students an example of a foil boat and
how to construct making a boat out of foil. (5 min.)

Structured Practice/Exploration: N/A

Guided Practice/Specific Feedback:N/A

Independent Practice/Application: The students will create their aluminum foil boat out of
foil. The students will then draw how many bear manipulatives they predict their boat will hold
without sinking. (20 min)

Closure: The teacher will review what objects sink and float with the students. The teacher will
then tell the students that in their next lesson they will be testing their boats to see if their
predictions were correct. (7 min.)

Differentiation, Individualized Instruction, and Assessment:

The teacher will use a microphone and repeat directions for the ELL student.

Research and Theory: This lesson follows the theories of Jerome Bruner’s principle that
learning is an active process that the learners construct new ideas based on their current/past
knowledge. The students will be constructing new ideas based on their current/past knowledge of
sinking items and floating items.