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Early Childhood Education Learning Experience Plan Name: Sydney Beinlich and Anna Iannantuono Lesson Title: Farm to Table Date: 25 March 2014 Grade Level: Preschool ECE Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Domain: Cognition and General Knowledge Sub-Domain: Social Studies Strand: Economics Topic: Production and Consumption Standard: With modeling and support, demonstrate understanding of where goods and services originate and how they are acquired. Domain: Cognition and General Knowledge Sub-Domain: Science Strand: Science Inquiry and Application Topic: Inquiry Standard: Share findings, ideas and explanations (may be correct or incorrect) through a variety of methods (e.g., pictures, words, dramatization Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Kindergarten Entry Skills Checklist Instructional Objectives (1-2) One/Two Assessed Instructional Objective(s): The student will be able to... 1. Identify a consumable product that a farm animal produces. 2. State findings through words. Picture documentation of the work samples matched to their consumable products. Standards checklist to mark which students stated findings through dramatic play. One Assessed Developmental Skill: Cognitive: Science Safety Considerations: Consider safety in transitions between small groups. Make sure the students have walking feet. Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile your evidence into a class or group view?) Whole Class Data Sheet Assessment of Student Learning Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and skill?) Learning Experience Academic Language: Chicken, cow, produce, consume, milk, eggs, yogurt, cheese, butter, churn, utter, lay, hatch Procedural steps: 1. Teachers will bring in an egg carton, a milk jug, a yogurt container, a package of cheese, and butter. 2. Students will be asked to work with the teachers individually or in small groups at work time. 3. Teacher 1 will introduce each item brought in. 4. Teacher 1 will lead an open-ended discussion with the students and their experiences with these items. Teacher 1 will ask where these foods come from. Teacher 1 will facilitate student learning by helping students make the connections between the farm animals and what is on their table at dinner. 5. Teacher 2 will observe the discussion while making anecdotal records on the connections the students make between the farm animals (cow or chicken) and their consumable products. 6. The table will have the egg carton, milk jug, yogurt container, package of cheese, butter, and plastic figures of cows and chickens. Students will reproduce their findings about cows and chickens and their consumable products by matching a chicken or a cow by placing it front of the consumable items that the animal produces. Teacher 1 will take pictures of the animal figures matched to their consumable products as documentation of student learning.

Anecdotal notes to show which students consumable products a farm animal produces.

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Early Childhood Education Learning Experience Plan Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on materials.) Egg carton, a milk jug, a yogurt container, a package of cheese, butter Adult Roles: Other teachers in the room will remind students to listen and participate in the discussion or sit still if they are misbehaving. This way Teacher 1 can facilitate the discussion and Teacher 2 can document student learning.

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Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?) I learned that all of my students can identify a consumable product produced by a farm animal. Most students matched all the products to the correct animals. The most difficult item to match was the yogurt. I had to be careful how I explained yogurt as a product of cows, and be careful not to say, cows make yogurt because that could have been misleading. I think the authentic materials made the experience come to life because many students commented about having those food items in their own kitchens at home. I also thought having two animals was the right amount to focus on. Before, I had considered adding more farm animals that produce food, but I think after implementing the lesson, more than two animals would have been overwhelming.