Lesson Plan Supplemental Materials

The lesson plan I created was designed with fourth graders in mind. The topic chosen was on plants that are pollinated and the animals/insects that pollinate them. The lesson plan includes 5 days of lessons that are about 35-40 minutes each. The week would begin by a short discussion, followed by a picture diagram given to assess students prior knowledge of the subject area. They would be given a PowerPoint presentation, along with a Youtube video that helps to explain the topic.

Students would be given then do a group activity where the class was split into four. They would have to make fake bees out of pipe cleaners, and use those bees to collect “pollen” from one paper flower to the other paper flower. This would be to help familiarize them with how the actual process takes place. It would also be helpful with those students who are visual learners, rather than audio.

The students would then be split into two person groups. They would have to discuss ideas, and then create flowers on pixelart.com that fits the description of their partner. The flowers would have to be labeled with the vocab words. Students would later present their flowers to the class.

There would be an online game given to further aid students in remembering facts. A quiz would also be given near the end of the week. On the last day, students would have to bring in a fruit/food that was pollinated by a specific pollinator which was assigned to them at the beginning of the week. The weeks assignments would also help students work on skills such as art, teamwork, public speaking, and use of different technologies.

http://www.pixilart.net/art/Make-your-own-flower-1e160248dd

The above image is a student example of an in class assignment. The picture was drawn on pixelart.com, and then submitted to the instructor to be presented in front of the class later. Students had to break off into pairs, and discuss with their partners simple personality traits like their favorite color, food, smell, ext. is. The flowers then had to be labeled with the vocab words provided on their flowers, although this student was a rebel and missed that step. It reads "Smells like bacon, tastes like PB & J, has camo print. Favorite colors are black, grey, green, purple. Likes letter M".

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This game is an activity the students would do to prepare them for the quiz at the end of the week. Most of the questions were taken from the quiz, while a few are based on information gotten from the PowerPoint lesson presented in class. It is used as what would hopefully be a helpful study tool. Students would work individually in the games, then in groups.