Lesson Plan Template

Your Name: __Rachael Peabody_____________________

For each lesson that you do, please fill in the following table of information.

What grade and subject is Second Grade

this lesson for?
What standard(s) are you 2-PS1-1 Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by
teaching? their observable properties.

Will you reword the I can classify objects by their observable properties
standards for the students?
If so, give your rewording.

What standards from other

content areas are you
teaching (if any)?
What do you want the Big Idea: Understand observable properties by analyzing and classifying different materials
student to learn?
Essential Questions: How are materials similar and different from one another? How do the
properties of materials relate to their use? How can heating and cooling change matter?

I want the students to observe that different materials have different properties and they can be
organized in a variety of ways based on those properties.
How will you know if they If the chart that they fill out makes sense for different types of classifications
have learned?
Describe the lesson 1. Start class with a group meeting in the front of the class
activities step by step.
Also, list the amount of 2. I will show them an object and ask them to tell me how we would describe it
time in minutes you
anticipate spending on a. Color
each step.
b. Texture

c. Material

3. Assign partners and have the find a place in the classroom to work

4. Give them a variety of objects

a. Different colors

b. Different textures

c. Different materials

5. Have them fill classify the objects in a variety of ways

6. Have them fill out the chart (below) as they investigate and classify
Will students be doing any Chart below
written work as part of this
lesson? If so, please
describe it and provide a
rubric or list of exemplary
answers.

Name:
Classifying Objects Date:

What did you classify the

Category one: Objects in category one: Category two:
objects by?

Ex. Red paper, red dinosaur,

Ex. Color Ex. Red Ex. Blue
red bead