Intern Name: Alvaro Herron

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Plant and Animal Cells

Grade: 5
Length of Lesson: 1hr
Date Taught: 5/25/22
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
Overview
Standards of 5.5: basic cell structures and functions;
Learning
What are the differences between animal cells and plant cells?
What different functions do animal and plant cells have?
Essential Questions What are the similarities between plant and animal cells?

Students will be able to… differentiate plant and animal cells and discuss the
functions of each cell
Objectives

Learning Target I understand that plant and animal cells and similar and different
Necessary Prior
Knowledge
chromebook
Materials pencil
notebook

Warm up:
Kids play pin the cell with an animal cell and plant cell
Introduction/Hook

part one: Present slide show of review of plant and animal cells and take notes
Instructional for venn diagram
Activities & part two: have students complete venn diagram assignment by writing in
Strategies notebook using vocab

Key Vocabulary or cell wall, vacuole, centrioles, chloroplast, plastids, plasma membrane,
lysosomes, cilia
Concepts
Assessments https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c7e79e2966012001b366219/warm-up-3-5-
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 plant-vs-animal-cells

Ask students which cell is their favorite and why

Closure Activity
malakye or zeke or nick or lucas may need extra assistance in outside tables
Accommodations

Resources

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

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1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
The steps I went through was observing similar lessons plans and constructing one around them. I spoke with
my teacher to make sure that all aspects of the lessons were covered in class prior since my lessons was a
review.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
The SOL helped focus my instruction by putting the attention on identifying the differences between animal
and plant cells.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

Class participation for the drag and drop worked fantastic

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

I needed to make minor adjustments to make sure everyone could join the quizzes

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

all my materials i anticipated is what we used, we did not need any extra materials

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?) The assessment was super effective because kids
completed it multiple times to get over 95% as a class and kids were looking forward to it.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
I feel the lesson was a huge success because kids were looking back at notes that they took to complete the
assessments and the exit ticket. Kids started to feel confident to speak out and answer questions.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
The more time i spent the more details i added, which was not noticed by the students but helped the lesson
run smoothly.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
I would add more information on how the cells function so that we could do more critical thinking and activities.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

Nope but it was fun!

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)