Lesson Plan Template for Student Teaching and the CalTPA

Grade Level 5th Subject Science Lesson Title: Fresh Water

Area:

Preparation to Teach
Unit Theme Water Cycle & Distribution
(Where within the unit
is your lesson?)
Content Standard(s): 5-ESS2-2 Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the
distribution of water on Earth.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.7 Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a
question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics
and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
ELD Standards: 1. Exchanging information/ideas
Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, including sustained dialogue, by following turn-taking rules, asking relevant
questions, affirming others, adding relevant information, building on responses, and providing useful feedback.
Learning Goal(s) or The student will be able to understand human interaction with fresh water and our dependence on it.
Objective(s): The student will be able to describe how humans use fresh water and where it is obtained from.
Materials, Resources, Google Slides
or Tools: Viewsonic
Computers
Technology Teacher: Viewsonic
Integration: Student: Computers

Three Focus Students
Focus Student 1: English Learner
Focus Student 2: IEP, 504, GATE,
or other identified need
Focus Student 3: A student who
has had life experience(s) either
inside or outside of school, that
may result in a need for additional
social- emotional and/or academic
support
Adaptations/ Accommodations
Adrian- Group work will help him as well as wait time or think time between questions and
during discussions.
Alex (GATE)- Giving early finishers tasks to work on ahead of the group or other snippets of
information to add will keep them engaged.
Lilian- She does not speak up when in need of assistance or when she is not following along.
She will often act as if she gets it and never asks for help. I will intentionally monitor her
independent work as walk around the room and direct as needed.

Instructional Plan
Activating Background Knowledge
Instructional Strategies  Think-Pair-Share the question, “Where do we get our water from?”
 Write ideas on the board in the form of a bubble map
Informal Assessment Participation in discussion

Student Grouping Pairs, Whole Group

Time Estimate 10 minutes

Instructional Input

Instructional Strategies  Students work with a partner watching the YouTube video and filling in the information on their Google Slides where it
says to do so.
Informal Assessment Collaborating with a partner

Student Grouping Pairs

Time Estimate 15 minutes

Closure
Instructional Strategies  Whole class discussion of what information they gathered from the video and put in their Google Slides.

Formal Assessment Google Slides notetaking page showing how we use water, the types of water, and where we get water from.

Student Grouping Whole Class

Time Estimate 10 minutes