eesl501sooyeunkim: Original Instructional Plan : Life cycle of a Frog

Instructional Plan : Performance Based Learning
Duration: 45 minutes (3 times)

Title: Life cycle of a Frog

Submitted by: Sooyeun Kim
Grade Level: K -1st
ELD Level: Intermediate
Special Education Level: N/A

Objectives:
Content Objective: To understand the scientific terms of the life cycle of a frog.
Language Objective: To write a procedural writing about a life cycle of a frog.
Learning Objective: To use a cycle diagram to create the life cycle of a frog.

Goal 2, Standard 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas. Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter in spoken and written form.
Indicators: Construct a chart or other graphic showing data.
Read a story and represent the sequence of events (through pictures, words, music, drama.)

Goal 2, Standard 3To use English to achieve academically in all content areas: Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge
Indicators: rehearse and visualize information
Make pictures to check comprehension of a story or process

Equipment Needed:
The icky sticky frog
The power point slideshow about life cycle of a frog
Butcher’s paper and construction papers
Pencils
CD (The tadpole song)
The various colored origami papers
Focus Sheet A-1 (Dance Procedures)
Focus Sheet A-2 (Vocabulary sheet)
Focus Sheet A-3 (Vocabulary sheet)
Focus Sheet A-4 (Checklist)
Worksheet A-1 (Graphic organizer)
Worksheet A-2 (Flow Map Template)

Warm Up:
Teacher will read ‘The icky sticky frog’ to students. Teacher will brainstorm the each stages of a frog. Teacher will let them see the power point slideshow about the life cycle of a frog. Teacher will ask students what they know about a frog, tadpole or toad.

Task Chain 1: To know the scientific terms of the stages of a frog (Content Objective)

1. Hand out Focus Sheet A-2 (Vocabulary)
2. Teacher will review Vocabulary Words that are on the sheet.
3. Students will find the objects in the story, the icky sticky frog.
4. Students will learn the every each stages of a frog.
5. Teacher will play CD, the tadpole song and teach each movement for that song (Focus Sheet A-1)
6. Students sing and dance.

Task Chain 2: To write a procedural writing about a life cycle of a frog (Language Objective)

1. Teacher explain how to write procedural writing
2. Pass out worksheet A-1: Graphic organizer
3. Students complete worksheet A-1
4. Students write their own procedural writing.
5. tudents evaluate their writing by themselves with Focus sheet A-4: Check List
6. Teacher revises students writings.

Task Chain 3: To use a cycle diagram to create the life cycle of a frog. (Learning Objective)

1. Review new vocabulary in small groups.
2. Students make an origami of frog and
3. Students draw pictures and clue the frog then complete their group project.
4. Pass out Focus Sheet A-4.
5. Using the pictures drawn, students will work in pairs to create a flow map of the correct sequence of the stages of a frog.
6. Teacher and students discuss results. Each group must state the sequence using the correct vocabulary.

Formative Assessment:

Have students identify the new vocabulary in the story in task chain 1 - 5 points
Evaluate the completed Focus Sheet A-3 in task chain 2 - 5 points
Evaluate the completed Focus Sheet A-4 in task chain 3 - 5 points
Students must also verbalize the correct stages using the vocabulary - 5 points

Summative Assessment:

Monitor all students as they perform the dance. Watch to see if all students know which stage is next by using the correct moves.

References :

Diaz-Rico, L. T. (2008). Strategies for Teaching English Learners. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

TESOL. 2002. ESL Standards for Pre-K Students: Grade K. Retrieved October 16, 2008, from http://www.teosl.org/.

Focus Sheet A-1 (Let’s learn and mimic tadpoles)

Focus Sheet A-3 (Vocabulary Words)