Intern Name: Taylor Schoolar and Abbey Faro

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Colorcycle

Grade: 4th
Length of Lesson: 45 mins
Date Taught: 04/05/19
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
We will explain the importance of recycling, and how something we use
Overview everyday can impact the world.

Standards of Make informed decisions regarding contemporary issues, taking into account
the following: respect for living things, personal responsibility
Learning
Why is it important to recycle these markers?
Essential Questions Where do they end up if not recycled?
Can I do this at my house on my own?

Students will be able to…

-Understand why recycling is important for our environment
-Understand the impact recycling has on not only a community level but also on
Objectives a world level
-Know that they can make an impact no matter how “small” the actions they
take may be

I will understand how to recycle and why recycling is important to our

Learning Target community
-What is recycling
Necessary Prior -What materials are eligible to be recycled
Knowledge -Why we should recycle and what benefits recycling has on the
environment
-old, dried out markers
Materials -candy for rewards for students bringing in markers

Taylor and I: “Waterfall waterfall”

Students: “Shhhhh”
This grabs the students attention, and they always get excited when they get to
Introduction/Hook fo this. Immediately after this, the room gets quiet.

Instructional
Activities & -Bringing in old markers that do not work anymore.
Strategies -Making it a competition to see who brings in the most markers.
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
Key Vocabulary or -Recycling
Concepts
Assessments N/A

Closure Activity Counting and sending the markers into Crayola.

Accommodations N/A

Resources Crayola “Colorcycle” program

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

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1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
We figured out that since we both worked with the same group of kids we could work together. Colorcycle
seemed like a great way to implement service learning.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
We knew that this topic was very important. We wanted to show them how easy it is keep our home clean. The
objective was a perfect way to answer “how does this relate to real life ?”

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

Everyone bringing in the markers went well, it was a little slow at first but when we made it a competition the
markers flew in.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

We needed to have some sort of incentive to get the makers.

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

Since this was a service project, we did not really need a ton of materials. We found the shipping label on the
Crayola website.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)

We did not choose to do an assessment, but we can gauge its effectiveness by the kids participating after the
project is over. They could potentially keep doing it at home and even in the classroom!!

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)

The students were excited about participating. They wanted to help us get a good grade on the assignment. The
class understood why we were having them bring in markers, which was the whole point!!

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?

We took a long time to figure out what exactly we wanted to do. We knew we wanted to do something and
that there were multiple things we could do. Once we figured out the “ColorCycle” we figured out our plan. We
spent a good amount of time working on it before we actually did it!

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
We would probably go in to it making a little competition. Another thing we would do differently is give the
students a longer amount of time to get the markers. Make it a long time span and it could end up being more
successful! Overall with the amount of time we had, the students enjoyed the activity !

Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)