Lesson Plan & Learning Centers

Seasons

Lesson Plan:

Engage-

Students will look at discrepant pictures of people wearing coats and mittens on a diving board, making a snowman wearing a swimsuit, planting flowers next to a pumpkin, and or a pile of leaves with the Easter bunny in it. The teacher will ask the students what is wrong with the pictures.

Explore-

In groups students will match articles of clothing with other artifacts that represent the four seasons.

Explain-

The teacher will ask the students how they decided to put the items where they put them and what they think the four different piles represent (days of the week, months of the year)

Extend-

Either a class discussion on seasons or a reading from an appropriate children’s literature source will take place. If the class discussion is chosen, possible questions could include: Why are seasons important? Why do you think we studied the seasons today? What other items could we include with each season? What do you do during the fall, summer, winter, and spring?

Evaluate-

Basically the student’s understanding will be assessed during the extend as well as the next day during center time.

Learning Centers:

1. Classification- Students will classify and sort objects representative of the four different seasons and draw pictures of at least one item in each category on a chart like worksheet.

2. Observation- Students will pick from one of four different envelopes containing artifacts representative of the four seasons. The will empty the envelope and observe the objects, then they will draw pictures of the objects and try to identify what season it is.

3. Prediction- Students will match pictures of activities with the season in which they would normally take place and then cut and paste black and white pictures of the same objects onto a worksheet.