Pre-Plan

ECD 360A
Your Name: Abigayle Smith

1-Child’s Name Interests Strengths and Developmental What the child

Developmental Need/Next Step knows
Skills Don’t know
Evelyn (5) Mermaids, FIne motor skills, Would like help -Some bugs
Princesses, self help, can on writing, could glow, all bugs
Unicorns, write their improve on fly, some have
SInging, name, draws expressing their more legs than
Butterflies, people with emotions, others like
Ladybugs, bodies, very spiders.
outside, Animals, social and plays Sometimes they
The ocean well with friends bite people,
bugs live in the
forest, all bugs
have 4 legs
except for
spiders, bugs
squish but don’t
know why,
ladybugs have
different colors
and spots,
butterflies come
from cocoons or
chrysalis
Topic Ideas/ sorting/grouping, the different parts of bugs, different kinds of bugs, bugs
Developmental vs. insects, bug habitats, bug food, necessity for bugs, bugs and nature,
Needs: where we find them, products of bugs/insects, bugs and insects have
different abilities that can help them do their jobs better

1-Child’s Name Interests Strengths and Developmental What the child

Developmental Need/Next Step knows
Skills Don’t know
Blake (3) Dinosaurs, race Very good at Has a hard time the wiggle and
cars, monster expressing focusing they crawl up
trucks, Bugs emotion, very especially if it is and put their
good with motor a sit down task, legs on stuff and
skills, Beginning can work on they are sticky
to copy shapes math skills, like goo, they
and capital walk like a
letters penguin, they
wiggle like a
worm,
Topic Ideas/ sorting/grouping, the different parts of bugs, different kinds of bugs, bugs
Developmental vs. insects, bug habitats, bug food, necessity for bugs, bugs and nature,
Needs: where we find them, products of bugs/insects

Explain how Learning about insects and bugs is important because they are
these ideas extremely important to every ecosystem and they are all around us. This
address the topic can provide first hand experiences and knowledge they can
child’s interests, apply right now in their lives. Also it is hard concepts which are easier to
development comprehend. This topic will also provide the children with a sense of
and knowledge respect for another aspect of nature and give them and can introduce
them to other topics like plant, gardens, arachnids (which can also be
covered in this lesson plan), and Nature in general (though this would be
a god monthly theme that bugs would fall under). Bugs also offer
concepts of sorting as there are concrete similarities between the bug
and insects in each group. Learning bugs can also introduce the
concept of jobs and jobs they participate in themselves, like helping to
clean up and do chores they may have to help with at home, also the
importance of teamwork. It can also teach the concept that everyone
is different and contributes different things to society, though I would use
friendlier terms.

Topic (Based on observation): Bugs/Insects

Ideas to be emphasized (what are you going to teach children about the topic?):

1. All insects have six legs, three main body sections (head, thorax, and abdomen), and
a hard skeleton.
2. Insects live in many different places and types of habitats.
3. Insects have a lot of different purposes and jobs.
4. Insects have different stages of growth (i.e. larvae to caterpillar to butterfly)
5. There a lot of different types of bugs and insects