Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name: Claire Raison Lesson Title: Design your own building

Date: 4/18 Grade Level:Preschool Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):
Domain: Creative Development
Strand: Artistic Engagement and Expression
Statement: 1.a. Expresses ideas and feelings through visual art.

Standard(s)/Guideline(s):
Domain: Language and Literacy
Strand: Language and Communication
Statement: 1.d. Participates in conversations with increasing application of turn-taking skills.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: I chose to do this lesson plan because the children had already done building activities before in the block center at Bombeck so I knew
they would be fascinated.

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
- Engage in back in forth
conversation
- Create a building from
the materials given
One Assessed Developmental Skill:
Language: How they will
communicate and what they
will say
Safety Considerations:
- Make sure there is enough
space so that students don’t
harm one another with their
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Identify Evidence: Academic Language:
- I will take pictures of the children's building - Buildings
and of their products - House
- Hospital
- I will take notes on what the children say as - Postoffice
they are doing the activity - Hotel
- Bank
Progress Monitoring: - School
- I will take photos of the children doing the - City
building activity and upload them to a Google - library
Slides presentation where the children can look - Materials
- Construction
through it as a class and parents can view it.
- On the slide or doc, below their pictures I will Procedural steps:
write a description of our back-and-forth 1. First I will call all of the students over to the circle and
conversations show them a PowerPoint of different kinds of buildings
we might find in the Dayton area
Differentiation: 2. I will start by asking does anyone knows where we live (if
N/A for the skyrider room no one gets it explain that we live in the city of Dayton)
3. Then explain that you are going to be showing a series of
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blocks - But maybe if a student couldn't physically hold or stack buildings that we might find in our Dayton community.
- Have them walk to their objects to create their own building you could have them 4. Ask a friend to raise a quiet hand if they know what the
spots work with a partner, draw a building, or verbally describe picture you are showing is
one. 5. After the PowerPoint, call over a group of three at a time
to the hexagon table to start building whatever kind of
building they want
6. While the students are building ask questions such as
What buildings are you making or why did you choose
that material.

Authentic Materials:
- Styraform
- Cut up pool noodles
- Cardboard
- Popsicle sticks
- Paper
- Red solo cups
- Wooden blocks

Adult Roles:
- Ask questions while the building is in process and during
PowerPoint
- Take pictures
- Show PowerPoint

Resources & References:

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)

From doing this lesson plan I feel I have a better understanding of where students are at but I can also see so much creativity. I had
buildings as my part of the investigation. So, I wanted to talk to the Skyriders about what buildings might be in their Dayton community. I started with
a slide show of different buildings and asked if they knew what they were. Many of the students did know. I heard responses such as when Wyatt
said “Yes that is where people go to keep their money safe” referring to the bank photo or when Jack said “That is where we ship letters” referring to
the post office. Other responses include the name of the building or even when Eva said “book!” for the library. It was cool to see what they already
knew about the buildings in their area. They didn't only know the name but also their purpose.
As for the building portion, I think they enjoyed it. While they build I would ask “Why did you choose that material” or “What are you building”,
as well as “Are you building one of the photos from the PowerPoint slide”. Jack said “I made an ice cream shop”, Wyatt kept asking for more of the
pool noodles and I asked why and he said he was building a motorcycle. He would slide the pool noodles onto a popsicle stick, I thought this was
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cool even though it was a building. Claire told me she was “building her house.” I asked what she was using the cardboard for and she said “for the
roof” When that didn't work I asked if there was a different material you could use. She then tried paper which worked. She would also explain parts
of the house like “the cups are my kitchen”. She knew all the areas. I also found it interesting that after building she began to draw a house. But for
example, Elliot did not seem very engaged. She put the pool noodles into the cups and then walked away.
Overall, I think the students really enjoyed this and I feel like it went pretty well! I now know maybe for future instruction how to group kids
and which kids might be interested in doing an activity like this again.

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