Common Core Lesson Planner

Grade Level: 2nd Teacher: Rachel Suason

Subject: Science Topic: Animal Life Cycle
Select grade level appropriate standards:
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or
Common Core
digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
and Content
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to
Standard(s)
produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers

2 What materials and resources will you and the students need for the lesson?
Materials/
Resources/ Reading Packet about various life cycles
Lesson Pictures of baby animals and adult animals
Preparation Animal Life Cycle Worksheet
Animal Life Cycle Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsTccmRMh4
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

What should students know and be able to do after the lesson?

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Objective(s)  Participate in and complete an e-chart using their knowledge about the animal life cycle.
 Understanding the life cycle of animals, including birth, aging into an adult and death.
 Join in the discussion of the vocabulary words (ask questions if need be, repeat word, make
prediction of what word means)

Level 1: Recall Level 2: Skill/Concept

Level 3: Strategic Thinking Level 4: Extended Thinking

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Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:
Webb’s Depth of
Knowledge Level Level 1: The students will be able identify the stages of the life cycle of animals from birth, aging into adult
and to death.
Level 2: The students will be given time to make an e-chart about the life cycle of a frog, butterfly,
hen/rooster and of a mosquito and be able to explain each stages.

Demonstrating independence Building strong content knowledge

Responding to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
Comprehending as well as critiquing Valuing evidence

5 Using technology and digital media strategically and capably

College and Coming to understand other perspectives and cultures
Career Ready
Skills
Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

 Building strong content knowledge - With the videos of different animals’ stages of life cycle, they
will listen and watch attentively to gain general knowledge.
 Using technology and digital media strategically and capably – Students will be using their
technology and digital media skills to search for images online as they create an e-chart of the life
cycle of the animals using a presentation software.

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

 Communication Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity

Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

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21st Century  Communication – Students will be able to train in expressing their ideas clearly, both in oral and
Skills written forms through sharing what they’ve learn in class.
 Collaboration - As they work in pairs in creating their e-chart, students will practice teamwork,
respect, accountability and learn to trust and rely on each other.

Lesson Delivery
Identify vocabulary and key terms that are important for students to know to understand the lesson:
Tadpole – recently born creature with a large head, long tail, no arms or legs, which lives in water and
develops into a frog or toad. Uses gills to breathe.
7 Froglet - a small and young frog. The gills have disappeared and lungs have enlarged.
Vocabulary/Key Metamorphosis - going through many physical changes before becoming an adult.
Terms
Larva – a caterpillar that hatches from an egg.
Chrysalis – hard shell formed around a butterfly larva for protection during the pupal stage
Life Cycle – the stages of living things goes through during its life.
8 Describe how you will adapt your lesson for the following learners:
Differentiated
Instruction  English Learners
Pair students who speak the same language to allow them to assist one another with translation needs.
Allow these students to use the reading packet as guide.
 Special Needs ADHD
Student will be partnered with a student that will help him/her stay on task and focused and the
partner will have to sit near the front of the classroom.
 Accelerated (Gifted/Talented)
Allow these students to use computers to visit the following website to learn more about different
animals’ life cycle. (http://www.vtaide.com/png/assess.htm#LifeCycles)

9 Describe at least TWO different types of formal or informal assessments you will use during your lesson to
Assessments check for student learning:
Formative: During the unit I will use the questioning assessment that will monitor student progress, probe
for understanding and engage students in higher-order thinking. It will also be used to draw connections to
students’ personal lives.
Summative: Students will work in pairs to create an e-chart of animals’ life cycle using a presentation
software.
10 Prior Knowledge, Context, and Motivation (How will you connect the beginning of the lesson to what
Lesson Delivery students already know and/or motivate them to learn about the topic?)
 Grab students’ attention by presenting pictures of many different types of baby animals and adult
animals either born alive or hatched. Ask some students to match the baby animals to the adult animals.
Ask: “What do you notice about the picture and what do they have in common?” Ask if they have ever
had a puppy or baby animal or even a sibling that’s a baby to grab students’ attention further.

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)

 Describe each step of the lesson
Teacher will… Students will…
1. Play “The Very Hungry Caterpillar Video” 1. Watch quietly and attentively.
for the whole class -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-
Sm1YY
2. Answer the assessment questions orally
2. Discuss / review the vocabulary words and take notes of the vocabulary words
before, during by pausing the video and and its meaning. Share in the discussion.
after the story. Write words on board so
children can notice spelling patterns and
use vocab in writing.
- Ask assessment questions like:
- Why do you think Eric Carle chose to
write a book about a caterpillar?
- How many parts are there in a butterfly life
cycle? (4)
- What is it called when a caterpillar moves
from one stage of its life to another? (life
cycle)
- Which part of the life cycle comes first?
(egg)
- Which part is last? (butterfly)
- Which part of the story was your favorite
part? Why do you like that part?

3. Lead students to predict that a Life Cycle is 3. Learn the life cycles of other animals
what all humans and animals go through; collaboratively. They can draw and
an aging process/ new life process. Go make notes on their notebook.
through what a Life Cycle is, what steps it
has, how there can be many different Life
cycles and give examples of what some of
them might look like. Let them watch the
animal life cycle video by pair on their
computer.

4. Give pairs an assigned animal after
watching the video to create a chart using a
presentation software about the animal’s
life cycle. They can use information from a
reading packet given to them.
4. Use the internet to get pictures of the
assigned animal to them and in order
arrange its life cycle and label the
changes it goes through.

5. Call 2 sets of partners to share the life cycle
of the animal assigned to them.
5. Each set of partners will share what they
have learned from the animal assigned to
them then have each set of partners
share what they found out about the
other partners’ animal to the class.

SAUSD Common Core Lesson Template (adapted)