Lesson Plan

Activity name: Seasons

Approximate length of experience: 30 minutes

Age and number of children: 6-7 years of age and 19 children

Goal: Identify what makes the seasons different from each other.

Domain: Cognitive

Content:

Fact: How many seasons are there?

Vocabulary: 4

Fact: What characteristics does each season have and what does each season mean to you?

Vocabulary: Winter: Cold, snow, Christmas, etc.

Summer: Hot, pool time, etc.

Fall: Leave falling, pumpkin patch, etc.

Spring: Blooming flowers, nice weather, etc.

Objectives: Participation in this activity will increase the child’s ability to…

1. Identify seasons when described and know what season we are in currently.

2. Gain a better understanding of weather and the world we live in.

3. Be able to identify a season just by pointing at an image.

Materials: Images of different seasons, markers for teacher and students, individual white

boards, teacher white board, and wash cloths to erase.

Procedure:

Begin, the lesson by gathering the class together on a reading rug in front of the white board.

Give a brief explanation of why we have seasons and what causes the whether to change.

Next, hand out the individual white boards, wash cloths, and markers to the children. Then

proceed to ask the children, what does summer mean to you? What does winter mean to you?

What does fall mean to you? And what does spring mean to you? Let children raise their hand

and answer. After that…(memory)

Instruct, the children to look at each image I show and write on their white board what season

they think it is. I will ask for them to hold out their answers after 30 seconds and begin to discuss

their answers. (evaluation)

Extension: Now that children are familiar with the 4 seasons, go around the class and ask them

what is there favorite season and why is it their favorite? (memory)

Simplification: Depending on their grasp of the subject I will decide if I want to go over a

certain season more than once.

Evaluation: Direct observation.

What Next: When the children are able to identify the seasons successfully, my next lesson will

involve individual work. I want the students to go in depth on the weather and nature of the 4

seasons.

Evaluation of appropriateness of the category (type) of questions used:

Did you use the best categories of questions or could you have improved by using different

categories? Defend your position. I felt that the questions I asked the children were thought

provoking and were questions that children had to draw from their memory to answer. I could go
in more detail and ask more questions that involve each season but then again, I just wanted to

introduce the subject without being to over whelming.