Group+2A

Lesson Plan for Group 2A - Sean Owens, Tatyana Quillen, Vera Morris, Olga Pillitteri

__**Unit Title**__**:** Life Cycles

__**Grade Level**__**:** K-2(5?)

__**Subject Focus**__**:** Butterfly

__**Lesson Focus**__**:** Stages of butterfly life cycle

__**Time**__**:** 9:00 - 11:30 w/ 15 min bathroom break = 135 minutes


 * I. __Standards, Goals & Objectives__**


 * Standards:**
 * __**Analyze how various organisms grow, develop, and differentiate during their lifetimes**__ based on an interplay between genetics and their environment
 * Explain and illustrate with examples how living systems interact with the biotic and abiotic environment


 * Goals:**
 * 1) Students will be able to name the stages of the butterfly life cycle and put them in the correct order.
 * 2) Students will be able to name the parts of an insect and differentiate between insect and non-insect.

__**Content Objectives:**__
 * 1) Students will be able to label and name the parts of an insect on a butterfly
 * 2) Students will be able to name the stages of the butterfly life cycle
 * 3) Students will be able to differentiate between insect and non-insect.

__**Language Objectives**__
 * 1) Students can name the parts of a butterfly within a sentence frame.
 * 2) Students can name the stages of the butterfly life cycle within a sentence frame.

__**Cultural Connection:**__


 * II. __Assessments__**


 * __Formative Assessments:__**
 * Matching activity, names of body parts to pictures of body parts
 * Memory game, life cycle stages
 * Production of life cycle mobile


 * __Interpersonal Tasks:__**
 * Memory game
 * Life cycle mobile


 * __Interpretive Tasks:__**
 * Video introduction of life cycle
 * Shared reading of non-fiction butterfly life cycle reader


 * __Presentational Tasks:__**
 * Insect vs. non-insect chart


 * III. Planning for Instruction**


 * __Activities__ (I DO, WE DO, YOU DO):**
 * 1) (Vera) Review of parts of butterfly
 * 2) (Sean) Video introduction of life cycle
 * 3) (Sean) Whole Class "Memory" game for life cycle stages
 * 4) (Tatyana) Shared reading of non-fiction butterfly life cycle reader
 * 5) (Olga) Mobile of butterfly life cycle
 * 6) Insect vs. non-insect chart
 * 7) Closing game, building life cycle

__**Materials**__**:**
 * 1) Butterfly body parts sheet; Body part cards
 * 2) Life cycle stages cards
 * 3) Large "Memory" life cycle stage cards
 * 4) Non-fiction reader
 * 5) Life cycle stage cards. Colored construction paper, paper plates, markers, tape, scissors, string/yarn
 * 6) Insect/not-insect cards

__**Vocabulary**__ 1. Голова, грудь, брюшко, крылья, усики, лапки. 2 - 5. Яйцо, гусеница, кокон, бабочка, превращается, откладывает, кушает, растёт, полетела. 6. Насекомое, не насекомое

__**Reflections**__**:**

Sean Owens - Overall I believe our lesson went quite well. We achieved our goals both linguistic and content wise. Commenting on my own section, I really felt my limitations with spoken Russian were a handicap to my teaching. I found myself unable to approach the lesson, or answer specific questions in as dynamic a way as I wanted. For example when I was presenting the video of the life cycle, I wanted to say that caterpillars crawl but the Russian completely slipped my mind - I caught myself code-switching to Arabic, almost saying "tazahifu gucenitsa". I was pleased with how the students reacted to the memory game, and very glad that they were able to take home something tangible from my lesson.

Olga Pillitteri I agree with Sean that over all the lesson went really well. We worked as a team and supported each other a lot. I enjoyed doing my activities where students were learning with doing hands on activities. Sean, Vera, and Tania did a very great job with their parts. Thank you my group members for all the help in organizing and doing our activities with the kids.