Basic Productivity Tools (BPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Farm animals

Content Area: communication, language, and literacy
Grade Level(s): pre-k
Content Standard Addressed: CLL2 - The child will acquire vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities,
stories, and/or books.
CLL2.3a -Demonstrates understanding of vocabulary through everyday conversations.

Technology Standard Addressed:

Selected Technology Tool: PowerPoint on the desktop.

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☐ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration:

☐ Infusion Level: Students may work at a higher Bloom’s Level, but they do not have any “Voice or Choice”
during the activity and most of the decisions are made by the teacher.

☒ Integration Level: We would like to see ALL lessons/activities reach this level. The project is student-
driven. Students have “Voice and Choice” in the activities, selecting the topic of study and determining the
technology tool to demonstrate mastery of the standard. The teacher becomes more of a facilitator.
☐ Expansion Level: The projects created are shared outside of the classroom, publishing student work and
promoting authorship. This could be reached by showcasing the project on the school’s morning
newscast, posting the project to the classroom blog, or publishing via an outside source.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

This activity will help support and enhance the learning experience by allowing the students to be engaged by
answering the questions in the book as we are reading. It gives the choice to put whichever farm animals they
decided in their own book. It also allows for them to see the advance features on PowerPoint that allows you
to create such things as books.

Lesson idea implementation: Large group- start with a video on farm animals. As a class we will then discuss
different types animals and then using the bored we will then distinguish between which animals are farm
animals and which are not by using pictures and taping them to a large sheet of paper that says farm animals
on one side and not farm animals on the other side. Small groups- One group (teacher) will read Animals on
the farm (already made) and have a discussion on the animals they seen and what they know about them.
Group two will be creating their own farm book using construction paper, crayons, and markers and the third
group will be creating a book using PowerPoint with a teacher. The book will be able to be read in the library
during center time and the students will have the opportunity to create books in the art center.
Students learning will be assessed during small groups, the teacher will ask questions and have the students
to identify different farm animals. The students will also demonstrate their knowledge during class discussion
and everyday conversations. The teacher will write dictations on each student’s book made in small groups to
get an understanding of what they have learned and put in their book.
Higher learning level will be us utilizing PowerPoint to create our own books for different things to keep in our

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classroom. Positive feedback will be giving out throughout the lesson and activities, acknowledging the book
and the animals that the students create and the things that they know about farm animals.

Reflective Practice:
I believe that this activity will allow for the students to identify animals, especially farm animals. Animals are
something that we around in our everyday lives and it is important to know them. I believe that this lesson is
a lesson that is lifelong. Since this was a introductory activity it could lead us into life cycles.

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