The College of New Jersey School of Education Bianca Venice and Heather Wuest Title: I Sense the Ocean

Grade Level: 1st grade Cooperating Teacher: Ms. Tindall Time Allotted: 45 minutes Description of Topic: The teachers will begin the ocean unit with an imaginary trip to the seashore. The students will visualize the seashore in their heads as the teacher narrates the trip. The students will write sensory images which they encountered on their trip. The students will record these images using words and pictures. Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1a Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Objectives Students will discuss what they would hear, smell, taste, see, and feel at the seashore. Assessments Students will use words and pictures to describe what they would hear, smell, taste, see, and feel at the seashore. (combining their prior knowledge with their imaginary trip to the seashore )The students can use these sensory images as ideas when decorating their ocean bag.

Materials: sand, seashells, ocean music, ocean smells, There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Shell! By Lucille Colandro, senses worksheets, hermit crab, ocean bags Prior Knowledge: Most students have been to the seashore, seen pictures, or read books about it. Therefore they will combine their prior knowledge of the ocean with the imaginary trip to the beach to figure out what they would smell, hear, taste, feel, and see at the seashore. Hook :( 5 minutes) Has anyone ever visited the seashore, played in the sand, jumped in the waves? Tell the children that they are going to take an imaginary trip to the beach.

Procedure :( 30 minutes) 1. Students will sit at their seats and close their eyes. The teacher will state Mmmmm. I smell ocean breezes. I think the ocean is this way..There it is there is the ocean!!! I can see the sun sparking on the water! Can you hear the seagulls calling and the crash of the waves ? Is the sand getting in your shoes? I think I see some dolphins jumping and diving ! What else do you hear at the beach? What do you smell ? Ok now lets put on our underwater diving suits ! We are going to take a hike to the bottom of the ocean. The special diving suit you are wearing will help you breathe underwater. Ok now lets go into the water, we are going to be walking downhill for a while, deeper and deeper into the ocean. Watch out for the seaweed. Look theres a school of fish, and theres a big sea turtle! Lets keep swimming and see what else we can find. Oh look theres an octopus!! Look at its eight tentacles! WOW and look theres a lobster and a jellyfish. Watch out we dont want to get stung ! Do you hear that . I think I hear a whale !! Its HUGE! Whats that swimming towards us? I think it is a shark! Hurry lets swim back up to the surface! Phew, we made it! You can take off your diving suits now boys and girls. 2. The teacher will share with the students what he or she would smell, hear, taste, see, and feel at the beach. The teacher will pass around sand and shells for the students to touch. The teacher will also play beach music and animal sounds for the students to hear. The teacher will pass around ocean scented candles for the children to smell. The teacher will show students pictures of things they would see at the beach. 3. The students will then write and draw what they see, hear, taste, smell, and feel when they are at the beach on their worksheets. 4. When all of the students have completed their worksheet the teacher will explain to the students that they are going to be studying the ocean for the next two weeks. So they are going to decorate an ocean bag to hold all of the work and activities they complete. 5. The teacher will tell the students that they can use their worksheet to help them think of ideas for decorating their bag. Questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What do you hear at the beach? What do you smell at the beach? What animals do you think you would see? Do you feel the sand between your toes? What else do you feel? What can you taste?

Closure: (10 minutes) The teacher will read The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell. The students will get to meet their new class pet. a hermit crab!!!! The class will vote on a name. Differentiation: The teacher will come around and scaffold the understanding of the lower-leveled and ESL students. The ESL students will receive a support sheet with words that are prevalent in the lesson.

The support sheet will contain a word written in English and a picture of the word. The support sheet will also contain common phrases used regularly in the classroom in English and a picture of the procedure. The support sheet will enhance the ESL students comfort in the classroom which will heighten their learning. The ESL students and lower-leveled students will be told that they can use pictures when describing their sensory images. The worksheet will have images of the five senses next to the each five sense word to assist the ESL learners. The more advanced learners will be able to pick a challenge from the challenge bucket if they finish the classwork early.

Classroom Management: The students will sit in their previously assigned seats which are arranged in groups of mixed-leveled students to start the lesson. The teacher will utilize the whole brain learning strategies for managing the classroom including Hands and eyes, hands and eyes and Bring it back bring it back bring it back now. The teacher will hand out the Five Senses of the Ocean handout at the end of the imaginary trip to the beach. The teacher will call the students to sit on the carpet group by group. When the students are all seated on the carpet the teacher will remind the students of the carpet rules. Any student that is not following these carpet rules will return to their seat and the teacher will call the student back to the carpet when they are ready.

Transitions: Students will be asked to move over to the carpet group by group so not all the students are up at one time. At the end of the lesson, the students will put all of their worksheets into their ocean bag. The teacher will wait for all the students to finish their senses worksheet before beginning the decoration of the ocean bags.