6/12/2013

Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Plan

Name: Lisa Hamilton Lesson Title: What is the Difference Between a Fruit and a Vegetable?
Date: Grade Level: Pre-K Circle one: ECE
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Standard: Explore objects, materials, and events in the environment. Standard: Make careful observations Standard: Pose questions
about the physical and natural environment. Standard: Describe, compare, sort, classify, and order. Standard: With modeling and support, describe what part of the
story the illustration depicts. Standard: With modeling and support, identify the topic of an informational text that has been read aloud.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: After doing a whole class aggregation sheet this showed me most students will be able to sort objects by attributes which
will help in the understanding of this lesson.

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
Tell the difference between a fruit
and vegetable.
Also sort fruit and vegetables into
the categories they fall in such as
root, stem, flower, seeds, fruit, and
leaves.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
Cognition and general
development
Safety Considerations:
Choking hazard for fruits and
vegetables
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
I will do an informal assessment by having students
demonstrate the concept by pointing to which one is a fruit
and which one is vegetable. After I have seen they have
mastered this then I will check for understanding by having
them place the different fruits and vegetables in their proper
categories (root, stem, seeds, flower, fruit, and leaves). As I
am doing this I will record the data of which students met
the standards and which ones did not. They will also be
drawing in their plant journals which fruit or vegetables they
liked the best that day.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
I will be using a checklist for each of the standards and
notating which students met the standards and which ones
did not.
Academic Language: Vegetable, fruit, seeds, stem, flower,
leaves, and root.
Procedural steps:
1. First I will have students form a large group and start
the discussion on asking them what types of fruit and
vegetables they already know.
2. Next, I will read Plants Feed Me by: Lizzy Rockwell,
and then talk about the different types of plants that
we can eat as I read the story.
3. After the story is completed, I will break them up into
two small groups. Each group will be looking at
different fresh fruits and vegetables, and then putting
them into the correct category they belong in.
4. I used printed off pictures of a root, stem, fruit, seeds,
leaves, and flowers so that it would be easier for
them to place the different fruits and vegetables on
the correct picture.
5. As they look at each individual fruit and vegetable I
will be talking about the different characteristics of
each and if they grow in the ground, or above ground,
and which ones have seeds in them.
6. Per my cooperating teachers permission, I will then
have them taste the different types of fruit and
vegetables.
7. After this, I will then have them draw what their
favorite fruit or vegetable in their plant journals.
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Learning Experience Plan

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

materials.)
I will be having them look at different kinds of fresh fruits and
vegetables.
-Celery, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bell
peppers, broccoli, oranges, green beans and apples.

Adult Roles:

Will be responsible for handling the fruit and vegetables and

cutting them.

Resources & References:

Rockwell, Lizzy. Plants Feed Me. Holiday House, 2014.

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

I feel like this lesson went better than the one I did before. The students were excited about getting to look at and examine the different types of fruit and
vegetables. They loved getting to hold and feel each one, you could tell they were more engaged and curious. This made it easier to talk to them about the
different types of fruits and vegetables I had brought in. The only thing I noticed was they had a hard time grasping the concept of which ones grew underground
and which ones grew above ground. This is something that if I do this lesson again, I will try and find another way of how to explain it so they understand. It would
have been neat if they had a garden, because then I could have pulled up a carrot out of the ground or picked an apple off the tree to show them the difference.
Another thing that went well was having the students taste the different fruits and vegetables, they absolutely loved it! Overall, I feel like this lesson ran smoothly
and I would use again in my future classroom.
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Learning Experience Plan