The Life Cycle of a
Frog
Analyze the
Learner
General Characteristics
This lesson plan is
prepared for kindergarten age students.
The students’ ability level ranges from average to above average. Eight students have been diagnosed as being
ADD. A majority of the students come
from low-income backgrounds.
Entry Characteristics
The students are able to
recognize a frog and its habitat. The
students have not mastered the skills that will be taught. Presently, the students have misconceptions
about how a frog develops and the differences between a frog and a toad.
Learning Style
These students require
motivational techniques to capture their attention; therefore, group activities
will involve movement, visual, and hands on types of learning. This will allow the students to move away
from the traditional desk activities.
The students will be
able to compare various animals such as frogs and toads.
Objective2
The students will be
able to associate sounds with letters using sentence strips to complete a
story.
Objective 3
The students will be
able put sentences in sequential order to complete the story.
Objective 4
The students will be
able to identify and make sentences using associated vocabulary words (frog,
tadpole, lily pad,).
Objective 5
The students will be
able describe how different animals grow with the most emphasis put on frogs.
Large
group time will be the method used to introduce the frog and the stages of its
life cycle. After this, the students’
names will be drawn from a bag and put into groups for the various centers
relating to frogs.
Media
The teacher will use an
overhead projector to introduce the unit.
It will be used to show the life cycle of the frog and detailed factors
of what happens at each stage.
Materials
Materials used will be
sentence strips concerning the story in which the students will be put into
sequential order, flash cards with rhyming words in which the students will put
under the word it rhymes with (frog-log, egg-beg). Also, a petrified frog will be used to serve as a model to get
the students’ interest going.
The teacher needs to be
familiar with the life cycle process.
The teacher also needs to be familiar with the overhead projector and
make sure it is in working order.
Practice
The teacher will
practice what she will say and in what order she will present the different
aspects of the lessons.
Prepare Environment
The teacher will prepare
the classroom to accommodate the centers related to a frog. In addition, the teacher will prepare the
transparencies for use with the overhead projector.
Prepare Audience
To prepare the students,
the teacher will inform them of the whole unit emphasizing each lesson that
will be taught. The students will have time to pose questions on what they
would like to learn concerning frogs and other questions that they might have. Also, to create interest, the petrified frog
will be passed around for each student to see.
Present Material
The teacher must present
the over all picture of the unit in a way that will keep the students’
attention. By passing around the
petrified frog, it will keep the students attention and arouse their interest
in the subject.
Questions to ask:
For kindergarten age,
What color is a frog? #2 What is the difference between a frog and a lizard? #3
How does a frog feel when you touch it?
Activities to do:
As a whole, the class
will discuss different characteristics of frogs (color, size, feel, and
sounds). Time will be set aside for the
students to tell stories about their experiences with frogs. This will be done in a circle on the floor
facing each other. Also, sentence
strips will be used for the child to put in sequential order concerning the
life cycle.
Skills to Practice
Skills that will be
practiced are factors such as the recognition of a frog, the color of a frog,
the feel of a frog, and the sounds of a frog.
The short “o” vowel sound will be introduced (as in frog). Rhyming words will also be introduced.
Follow up Activities
Questions to ask:
What happens for a
tadpole to become a frog? Where do frogs live? What do frogs eat? What are the differences between a frog and
a toad?
Activities to do:
The teacher will prepare
a chart on the board with the word “frog” on one side and the word “toad” on the
other side. The students will provide
the teacher with characteristics of each one that distinguishes between
them. Their answer will be put on the
board under the corresponding column.
Skills to practice:
The skills to practice
are how a frog progresses throughout its life cycle and the different stages of
a frog’s maturity. Also, the students
will practice pairing rhyming word cards.
They will also practice putting vocabulary word cards together to make
up sentences about frogs.
To evaluate the
students’ ability to understand the life cycle of a frog, they will again have
various sentences concerning the life cycle on strips of poster board. The students will have to put the strips in
order according to when each event occurs in the life cycle.
(egg—tadpole—frog) This will show if
the students understand the concept of the life cycle of the frog and the
concept of putting things in sequential order.
Evaluation of Methods,
Media
Evaluation of Methods Media
will be going on throughout the whole lesson.
If the students are responding with enthusiasm towards the lessons and
games, then the materials are working.
If the students are bored and the teacher keeps losing their attention,
then the teacher must revise the lesson for it to be effective to the students.
