Common Core Lesson Planner

Grade Level: 2nd Teacher: Ms. Barajas

Subject: Science
1 Select grade level appropriate standards:
Common Core
and Content CCCS.EARTH.SCIENCE.2.E.1.1
Standard(s)
2 What materials and resources will you and the students need for the lesson?
Materials/
Resources/ Students will need sentences to have soil, and plant seeds, teachers will need to provide those things for
students and also provide worksheets with instructions.
Lesson
Preparation
What should students ​know​ and ​be able to do​ after the lesson?\
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Objective(s) Students will be able to identify and describe the basic parts of a plant and describe different
types of leave. Students should already know what the plants look like.
   X Level 1: Recall
☐ ☐ X Level 2: Skill/Concept
 ☐X Level 3: Strategic Thinking ☐ X Level 4: Extended Thinking

Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

Recall: Students should know what plants look like and recall they’re color and features.
4 Skills/concept: Includes the engagement of some mental processing beyond recalling or reproducing a
Webb’s Depth of response.
Knowledge Level Strategic thinking: demand a short term use of higher order thinking processes, such as analysis and
evaluation.
Extended thinking: They have to use higher order thinking processes such as reflection and think
about parts of a plant.

 ☐X Demonstrating independence ☐ X Building strong content knowledge

 
☐Responding to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
  ☐ Comprehending as well as critiquing ☐XValuing evidence
5  
☐Using technology and digital media strategically and capably
College and  ☐ X Coming to understand other perspectives and cultures
Career Ready
Skills
Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

Demonstrate independence by examining plants in videos or worksheets and then identifying the seeds as well.
Build strong content knowledge by engaging with works of quality and substance.
Value evidence when supporting their own points
Coming to understand other perspectives and cultures when looking at different kinds of plants and learning
where they came from.

☐ X Communication ☐ Collaboration ☐ X Critical Thinking ☐ Creativity

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21​st​ Century Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:
Skills Communication with their peers is allowed so they could practice and learn from each other. Critical
thinking is going to be addressed because they have to think and analyse.

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

 Lesson Delivery
Identify vocabulary and key terms that are important for students to know to understand the lesson:
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Plant, stem, leaves, soil, seeds.
Vocabulary/Key
Terms

8 Describe how you will adapt your lesson for the following learners:
Differentiated
● English Learner: Give them specific directions on what is needed for them to succeed in
Instruction
learning the lesson

● Special Needs: Spend more time trying to explain what is expected for the assignment
and give them extra examples similar to what we are learning for better understanding.

● Accelerated (Gifted/Talented) Give them the directions needed to start the assignment

9 Describe at least TWO different types of formal or informal assessments you will use during your
Assessments lesson to check for student learning:
Informal assessment: quiz, ticket out the door
Formal assessment: project-based assignment, test

10 Prior Knowledge, Context, and Motivation ​(How will you connect the beginning of the lesson to
Lesson Delivery what students already know and/or motivate them to learn about the topic?)
I will connect the beginning of the lesson to what students already know by asking them basic
questions on the lesson and take notes on what they already know and what we need to work on.

Describe each step of the lesson: Give students a worksheet on parts of a plant and ask them
to classify them. After learning all parts of a plant, provide soil and plant seeds so they can
plant and observe their plant throughout the days in the classroom. Once the lesson is
complete, test them on parts of a plant and everything we learned that has to do with that.

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

 Teacher will… Students will…
be able to answer what the parts of a plant
are
Make sure each student is proficient in the
lesson plant their own plant and observe it during
class time throughout the days
provide items for students to use during class
time Have a test or ticket out the door when
completing the lesson
Test students’ knowledge at the end of the
lesson.

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)