To practice lesson planning, create an age appropriate sensory activity for early childhood-aged students. Your lesson plan should include a goal, learning outcomes, materials, and a step-by-step guide on how to complete the activity. You will want to refer back to Lesson 5 to see an example of how to format and create your lesson plan as well as ideas and suggestions.
Title: Slime Letters
Goal: To gain knowledge of letters of the alphabet through sensory play during small group time in the classroom.
Learning Outcome: gain meaning by listening, knowledge and recognition of letters, represents ideas through play, convey letters with meaning, begins to make sense of problems, uses simple strategies to solve issues that arrive, reasons quantitatively, counts with understanding, orders and compares, explores the properties of objects and materials, and how they change, Uses a variety of art materials for tactile experience and exploration.
Materials: Sensory box (art center), water, green food coloring, foam letters, nets, buckets, other sensory items from the table materials box.
Teaching Instructions: During small group take students to sensory box. Students are to use the nets as well as other items they see fit to scoop letters out of green slime water. Students will identify letters as they scoop and move letters into their bucket. Afterwards students may count to find out how many letters they saved from slime.
Part 2
To practice interdisciplinary lesson planning, create an age appropriate activity for early childhood-aged students that integrate art into another core subject (reading, writing, mathematics, science, or social studies). Your lesson plan should include a goal, learning outcomes, materials, and a step-by-step guide. You will want to refer back to Lesson 7 to see an example of how to format and create your lesson plan.
Title: Number Bus Stop Acting
Goal: To incorporate acting into learning our addition problems, To learn addition