Typing Lesson

I am taking an education class and I am writing a lesson plan. I have my unit topic, alignment to standards, instructional strategies… but it also specifies including the hook and closure to my lesson. I can’t remember what that means exactly. I can’t find it in my book or online. Would you be able to help me? Thank You!

Hunter’s "anticipatory set" is sometimes called a "hook" to grab the student’s attention, e.g., "Has anybody visited the…?" (connect to prior knowledge)

Just remember fishing "hook." It "grabs" the fish. Bait and hook might be a little more accurate.

Closure is when you wrap up a lesson plan and help students organize the information into a meaningful context in their minds. (e.g., summary/short discussion to clarify)

I’m taking college classes because I want to become an early childhood education/ elementary teacher. Anyways, for my preschool curriculum class I have to create a lesson plan for ages 3-4 with an area in language arts. The book is eric carle’s polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear? We cannot do sounds of the animals or acting them out(teacher did example of this)

Google is an amazing resource.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=polar+bear+polar+bear+teaching+activities&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

or
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=polar+bear+polar+bear+teaching+activities&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=hp&q=polar+bear+polar+bear+teaching+activities+for+preschool&pbx=1&oq=polar+bear+polar+bear+teaching+activities+for+preschool&aq=f&aqi=q-w1&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=55664l57343l0l57568l14l10l0l0l0l0l572l1911l3.4.2.5-1l10l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=fa8a22845779779&biw=1267&bih=577
easier to help you, I typed in "polar bear polar bear teaching activities for preschool" this a great way to search for lesson ideas that fit YOU and YOUR class. enjoy! this is a fun book!

I’m looking for a good lesson plan book for teachers where I can decorate the cover or customize it online. Does anyone have any ideas?

Just get a full sheet of adhesive paper. Then you can stick it on the front cover and decorate however you want.

I am interviewing with a preschool and for the interview they want me to write up a lesson plan and present it to a small group of children. I’m totally stumped on ideas. I’m looking for something relatively short (10-15 minutes) that’s not messy and since it’s very short, something that doesn’t require a big long introduction. I would appreciate any help!

Keep it simple and avoid product oriented activities. Read a book and lead a simple activity. Here are a few ideas:
*Read A House For Hermit Crab. Bring an assortment of sea shells for the children to examine. Ask questions to encourage discussion. Questions such as is it hard or soft? Bumpy or smooth? What colors do you see? Do you think Hermit Crab could live in that shell? Let the children handle the shells, sort them and talk about shape, colors, textures, etc.
*Read I’m The Biggest Thing in the Ocean. Ask 4 children of varying heights to stand up and ask the rest of the children to help you arrange them in order from tallest to shortest. This gives you lots of opportunity for discussion, and you are teaching them the terms tallest and shortest and teaching them to arrange in graduated order.
*Read a book such as Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. Ahead of time, make bright simple pictures of flowers (2 of each) on half sheets of black construction paper. Don’t make too many. 12 or 14 cards will be plenty. After you read the story, play Memory with your flower cards. Talk about matching colors and shapes.

Each of these scenarios addresses a variety of skills including language, math, and literacy skills, as well as social skills. Do you know how to write a lesson plan? You could find a lot of different styles of lesson plan templates on line and adapt one so that you have something written to show them. Here’s a web site with some plan format ideas: http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/daily_lessonplan_templates.php Just use them to give you ideas how to go about writing up a plan for your activity.

I am studying teaching at university and am writing a lesson plan. It says we need to link the lesson to the curriculum. I was wondering how many do we do? Is there a maximum?

I have been looking in the curriculum framework and there are around ten that link with my lesson. Is this too much?

Thanks

The point of linking curriculum areas is to try and help children join the dots between subjects rather than put sometimes artificial barriers between them. BUT - its really important to only identify the strong links, otherwise you run the risk of just confusing yourself about what the main teaching point is that you’re putting over. For instance - if you are teaching history, may be the Great Fire of London, you will probably have a strong link to literacy if the outcome is written - perhaps an account from a witness or a poem that includes the main facts - both of those will use skills and knowledge from literacy, but the learning objective will be mainly focused on the facts about the event. You might be making a model of a street that you then set on fire (seen it done - kids love it!) so here they’d be using skills from DT, art and possibly maths - measuring etc.

10 links is too many - you won’t be able to reference them all during your lesson without losing the focus of the lesson. Probably 2 or 3 is enough.

Hope that helps!

I have to write a lesson plan for an art class as a college assignment. The last part is called "learning activities." Can someone please tell me what I am suppose to write down here?

The learning activities are the things that the kids actually do to master the concepts and achieve the goals and objectives. They could be anything from songs to worksheets to games to guided art activities to group presentations etc. A good lesson plan will explain how the activities teach the concepts.

I am a student, and our class has an assignment to teach the rest of the class about monohybrid cross and punnett squares. It was not very clear on how the lesson plan is supposed to look, so I thought I would just find out how a normal teacher’s lesson plan would look and make ours like that. Can someone please explain to me how a good one is supposed to look?
Thanks!!!

There are many formats for lesson plans. Basically they should have goals, objectives, activites,
and evaluation methods. Go to thelessonplanpage.com. This site features lesson plans from teachers all over the world grouped by subject and grade. Many of the teachers submit formal plans, so you should be able to find some models there. It’s a free site.

When planning for a class lesson, for early primary classes what things should be included in the lesson plan? How much detail is needed? Is there anything that is easy to forget but should be included? Links to written examples of good lesson plans would be helpful. I am writing a lesson plan for an oral language experience. The activity relates to a text the students are familiar with, I am not asking for the activity just help with what needs to be put into the plan so it is usable by other teachers.

The best thing to do is think of lesson plans as an outline and leave out as much detail as possible. Otherwise, it’ll take FOREVER to write them and you’ll be accountable for everything. Plan for every min, but don’t write it in your plan. But it depends on your Admin.

I suggest that you turn in very simple plans and, if they ask for more, you can always add information. Same thing for other teachers. It’s a plan not a script. Every teacher is different and you can spend an afternoon crafting the perfect plan for you, but have half of it unused by other teacher b/c they have their own techniques and bag of tricks they prefer to use.

KISS: keep it short and simple.

How do I make a good lesson plan based on the racism?

Several years ago, a woman in Iowa did a demonstration with her classes where she had students with brown eyes (I think, I could have them backwards) wear signs and sit in the back of the room. She got very dramatic results- within a very short time, the students started discriminating among themselves and calling each other names. Even more, the academic achievement of the browned eyed students plummeted by the end of the week! You can see more about this if you Google Blue eyes, Brown eyes.

She got in a little bit of trouble because the parents thought she was traumatizing the children, so I wouldn’t try anything like that. But you could pose it as a question. What if you divided them by the color of their eyes, or some other criteria that they had no control over. What if you told one group that they were going to have to sit in the back of the room, let the other students go first to lunch, stay off the playground at recess? How would that make them feel? Get responses from them- then tell them examples of how racism has hurt people in the past and still does.

Katelyn- I hope you read this, because you have a real problem. If you are repeating what you hear your parents say, please try to read some other perspectives.

In preparation for teaching a subject at a secondary school, what are the differences between unit of work and lesson plan?

don’t know about unit of work unless they mean a specific topic like : Significant Civil War Battles.

A lesson planis exactly what you are doing:

the objective
the materials
the procedures
the evaluation