Exemplar lesson plan

This exemplar lesson plan is for your records. It is based on the Content and Learning
Standards provided to you, and is provided by the Ministry of Education to accompany the
Language Arts lesson for the poem Watching a Bumble Bee.
Activities may differ from the ones you have prepared earlier.

SUBJECT : ENGLISH
YEAR : 5
DURATION : 60 minutes
THEME : World of Knowledge
TOPIC : POEM: Watching a Bumble Bee
FOCUS SKILLS: : LANGUAGE ARTS : CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
L/S/R/W/LA

CONTENT : Main Skill

STANDARDS: 5.2 Express personal responses to literary texts

Complementary Skill
1.2 Understand meaning in a variety of familiar contexts

LEARNING : Main Skill

STANDARDS: 5.2.1 Explain in simple language why they like or dislike an event,
description or character in a text.

Complementary Skill
1.2.3 Understand with support longer simple narratives on a range of
familiar topics
LEARNING : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
OBJECTIVES:
MAIN LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Create a thank you card to show their appreciation for the bees in helping
sustaining the nature.

COMPLEMENTARY LEARNING OBJECTIVE:

Listen and understand the information contained in the video on the
pollination process of flowering plants by completing the flow map
according to the sequence of events in the video.

CROSS-CURRICULAR : Environmental Sustainability, Creativity and Innovation.

ELEMENTS

TEACHING AIDS: 1. Picture of a bumble bee (Appendix 1)

: 2. A Bee’s Life (Appendix 3)
3. Flow map (Appendix 12)
4. Answer to the flow map activity (Appendix 13)

ACTIVITIES : : Pre-Activity

PRE-LESSON Steps :

1. Put up a picture of a bumble bee and ask pupils what they know about
 bees. (Appendix 1).

Suggested questions:
 What is this animal called?
 What colour is the bumble bee?
 Have you seen a bumble bee before?

LESSON : While-Activity
DEVELOPMENT:
Steps:

2. Introduce the title of the poem to the pupils. Ask pupils to guess what
they may see when they watch a bumble bee.
4. Put up Stanza 1 of the poem on the board. Pupils read it together. Ask
pupils this question: “Where can you see bumble bees?”
5. Repeat step 4 with the following questions:
i. Stanzas 2, 3, 4: What do bees do all day long?
ii. Stanza 5: What do bees make?
iii. Stanza 6: What sound do bees make?
6. Distribute Appendix 3. Pupils colour the statements that are true based
on the poem.
7. Show pupils the “Pollination Rock” video.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5yya4elRLw)
8. Distribute the flow map (Appendix 12). Pupils complete the flow map
according to the sequence of events in the video. Guide pupils
throughout the activity. (see Appendix 13) (Cross Curricular Element:
Environmental Sustainability)

POST-LESSON : Post-Activity

9. Ask pupils to imagine what a world without bees would be like.

Emphasise the importance of bees in sustaining nature.
10. In a small group of three, pupils make a thank you card to show their
appreciation for the bees. (Cross Curricular Element: Creativity and
Innovation)

Closure

10. Discuss what the pupils have learnt in today‘s lesson.

TEACHER’S :
REFLECTION