Writing A Lesson Plan
Preschool Lab
Block Plan
Overall view of the curriculum Could be weekly, monthly, semester, yearly
Lesson Plan
A detailed plan that outlines specific actions and activities that will be used to meet specific goals and objectives
Usually written as a daily plan
Title
Developmental
goal(s)
Learning
objective(s)
Materials needed
Motivation/Intro
Procedures
Give your lesson a title
Could be simple phrasing or “catchy”
Examples:
What to Wear to the
Beach
Up, Down and Around
Clowns
Statements that tell the “why” of the activity Before you write a developmental goal, ask yourself, “What can the children learn from this experience?”
A developmental goal is broad
Examples:
TCWLA summer clothing TCWLA rhyming words TCWLA nature
TCWLA spatial relationships TCWLA colors
Expected outcomes of the activity
There are two or three parts to each learning objective
Who?
Will do what?
How?
Example:
TCW recognize summer versus winter items after pulling them from the teacher’s bag.
TCW match “-at” rhyming words to their given pictures
Writing a learning objective is one of the hardest parts of a lesson plan
Use action words to explain an objective
The “verb” part should be something measureable
Examples
say, show, tell, ask, open, color, locate, write, sing, skip, paint, place, solve, explore, jump, cut, move, etc…
Include everything that is needed to complete the activity Some activities require more materials than others
How will you get the children’s attention?
Examples:
Picture
Song
Puppet
Poem
Stuffed animal
This is similar to a recipe What are the stepby-step directions to accomplish your activity?
How will the activity end? Or, how will you move to the next activity? Examples:
Walk quietly to the snack table
Answer questions about the story
Often, a forgotten step of the lesson plan When
Block Plan
Overall view of the curriculum Could be weekly, monthly, semester, yearly
Lesson Plan
A detailed plan that outlines specific actions and activities that will be used to meet specific goals and objectives
Usually written as a daily plan
Title
Developmental
goal(s)
Learning
objective(s)
Materials needed
Motivation/Intro
Procedures
Give your lesson a title
Could be simple phrasing or “catchy”
Examples:
What to Wear to the
Beach
Up, Down and Around
Clowns
Statements that tell the “why” of the activity Before you write a developmental goal, ask yourself, “What can the children learn from this experience?”
A developmental goal is broad
Examples:
TCWLA summer clothing TCWLA rhyming words TCWLA nature
TCWLA spatial relationships TCWLA colors
Expected outcomes of the activity
There are two or three parts to each learning objective
Who?
Will do what?
How?
Example:
TCW recognize summer versus winter items after pulling them from the teacher’s bag.
TCW match “-at” rhyming words to their given pictures
Writing a learning objective is one of the hardest parts of a lesson plan
Use action words to explain an objective
The “verb” part should be something measureable
Examples
say, show, tell, ask, open, color, locate, write, sing, skip, paint, place, solve, explore, jump, cut, move, etc…
Include everything that is needed to complete the activity Some activities require more materials than others
How will you get the children’s attention?
Examples:
Picture
Song
Puppet
Poem
Stuffed animal
This is similar to a recipe What are the stepby-step directions to accomplish your activity?
How will the activity end? Or, how will you move to the next activity? Examples:
Walk quietly to the snack table
Answer questions about the story
Often, a forgotten step of the lesson plan When