Interactive Integrative Lesson Plan on Snakes

Kelli Murphy

Purpose of the Assignment: The purpose of this lesson is for students to share their knowledge
of snakes with one another through the use of technology.
Subject: Science and English Language Arts
Standards (click on links below to view):
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.7
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.9
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.3
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.2.d
Objective: Student will be able to use technology to share a creative story, vocabulary
knowledge, and photos of snakes by posting to a Padlet wall.
Goal: Students will understand how to use technology to enhance their knowledge about
snakes.
Grades: 4-6
Lesson Plan: This lesson builds vocabulary skills and creative writing skills and can be used with
any kind of subject matter. The purpose of this lesson is for students to share their knowledge
of snakes with one another. This assignment will use technology where students will need
computer access to post their information onto a Padlet wall. There are 3 assignments within
this lesson.
Lesson One: Vocabulary Development
This lesson will enhance vocabulary development using the Padlet wall. The teacher will
create a Padlet wall (http://padlet.com/kellired99/SnakeVocabulary) and post
vocabulary words on the wall regarding snakes. Students will then share their
vocabulary knowledge by posting their own definitions or pictures by the vocabulary
words to the Padlet wall (http://padlet.com/kellired99/SnakeVocabulary)

Example vocabulary words to post on Padlet wall: reptiles, snakes, fangs, venomous,
non-venomous, live young, armor, jaws, predators, vipers, anacondas, vibrations,
constrict, etc.

Lesson Two: Design Your Own Snake
This lesson will enhance hand building skills and creativity where each child will need to
design their own snake.
Based on the snake facts learned from http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/snakes/index.htm,
students are going to design their own snake. We are going to pretend that each
student has just found a new species of snake that has never been identified. National
Geographic is dying to know more about these snakes. Students will be given materials
in class such as play-doh, construction paper, pipe cleaners, glitter, scissors, glue, etc.
After they have created their snake, they will need to take a picture of their snake by
using the camera on the classroom iPads or any other photo taking device. Students
must also write a bio page about their snake by answering the following questions:
1. What kind of snake is it?
2. Which of the 4 movement methods does it use?
3. Does it have fangs? Is it poisonous?
4. Describe how it can hunt, escape danger, or find a mate?
5. What does it eat?
6. Does it lay eggs or give birth to live young?
7. What predators would hunt this snake?
Students will use the classroom computers to post their pictures and snake bio info onto
the Padlet wall by clicking on the following link:
http://padlet.com/kellired99/designyoursnake


Lesson Three: A Day in the Life of My Snake
This lesson will enhance creative writing skills where students will create their own story
about their snakes they created in Lesson Two.
Students will need to create a story 1-2 pages long about what it would be like to be a
snake for a day. They can build their story on the snake they created in the previous
lesson. They need to incorporate details about their 24 hour journey as a snake, such as
diet, living space, etc. Students will type this story onto a Word document by using the
classroom computers. The students will then post their story to the following link:
http://padlet.com/kellired99/SnakeStory