6/12/2013
Early Childhood Education
Name: Francesca Martella and Sarah Kintner
Date:
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Perceiving/ Knowing -> Creating -> Cognitive & Creative Learning Processes -> Demonstrate observation and listening skills in a
theatrical context
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Ask students if they are able to show the teacher what a tree looks like using their body
Instructional Objectives (1-2)
One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
The students will be able to use
their whole body to create drama
and show how a tree grows.
Safety Considerations:
None
Learning Experience Plan
Lesson Title: A Growing Tree
Grade Level: Pre School Circle one:
Assessment of Student Learning
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
After the lesson have different students help explain to the
teacher what the steps are to a growing tree and why those
steps happen.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
Make a checklist that shows each students and if they are
following the directions of the tree growing and using their
body parts to represent the growing trees.
ECE PKSN
Learning Experience
Academic Language:
 Tree
 Growing
 Body movement
 Drama
Procedural steps:
 Ask the students to move around the classroom and
create their own personal space
 Ask the students to show the teacher if they know
what a tree looks like using their body
 Ask the students to show the teacher the first step in
a growing tree, inform them that the first step is
acting as they are a small seed underneath the group
 Explain to the students why it is important for the
seed to start underneath the ground and soil
 Tell the students that the second step will be the
sunlight hitting them and growing just a little bit above
ground (standing on the knee)
 Explain to the students how the trees grows through
sunlight and water
 Next have the students reach out their hands and
arms and legs pretending that they are the tree is
growing stronger
 Finally have the students show that they are full
grown trees and stand up looking like a tree using
fingers, arms and any body part they think makes
them look more like a tree
 Explain all the ways the tree got to that position as a
full grown tree
 6/12/2013
Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Plan

Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on

materials.)

None

Adult Roles:

Explain the steps of a growing tree and modeling body

movements

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)

In this lesson the students are able to use are motor development skills and their previous knowledge of a tree growing to perform with their classmates what a
tree growing looks like. This went very well because younger students like to be able to move around and feel as if they can do the movements individually. They
all participated and seems to be engaged in the activity even when the teacher was explaining to them why the steps occurred. This taught us a lot about how
students seem to be more engaged when they are able to have their own thoughts and able to move around. This will help future instruction be modified to help
the lesson be more engaging.