Clinical Practice

Lesson Plan Template

Fall 2013

Teacher Candidate: Shakema Smith Subject/Grade: Science/3rd

Lesson # __5____ Date and Time of Lesson: October 15, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.

Learning Objective: The students will be able to classify soils on the basis of their properties with 90% accuracy. Alignment with Standards: Standard 3-3.1: Classify rocks (including sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic) and soils (including humus, clay, sand, and silt) on the basis of their properties. EEDA - Section 59-29-135: Character education SSCA Description of student behavior.

Developmental Appropriateness: The learning objective is developmentally appropriate because the students are able to visually learn information from the Smartboard which one way the students enjoy learning also. The learning objective is also developmentally appropriate because the students are able to look at different types of soils online. The learning objective is developmental appropriate for the students emotional need by the students being able to receive constructive criticism. Assessment(s) of the Objectives:
Lesson Objective(s) Assessment(s) of the Objective(s) The assessment will be based off of observation. I will be observing that the students are answering the questions correctly when called on. The post assessment about soils will be given after our fossil lesson is given. Use of Formative Assessment I will use observation to see if I need to re-teach the lesson again the next day. The post assessment will be used also for reteaching and impact on student learning.

The students will be able to classify soils on the basis of their properties with 90% accuracy.

Accommodations: Lower learners will receive one on one help from myself or a higher learner student. I will pull small groups if needed. Early finishers may glue their notes in their notebooks or assist another student. Materials: Soils fill in note sheet, pencils, science notebooks, crushed Graham Crackers, crushed Oreos, Chocolate Pudding, spoons, napkins, cups, gummy worms, document camera, and Smartboard.
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Procedures: 1. What have we been focusing on so far in our Rocks and Minerals Unit? (Call on students to answer.) Good! We have been learning about the three types of rocks, minerals properties, and the minerals identification key. Today we are going to move on and focus on soils!

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Lesson Plan Template

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2. There are four different types of soils that we will be learning about today. Before we begin, I am going to pass out your note taking sheet. As we go through each type of soil you will have to fill in the blanks with the information I will be giving you. (Pass out note taking sheets) (Place one note taking sheet under the document camera to display on the Smartboard.) 3. Alright I need everyone to focus. The first soil we are going to fill in is humus. Humus is soil that is made up of decayed parts of once-living things. It is dark, soft and very crumbly. What do you think decayed means? (Call on a student to answer.) Decayed is like decomposed or rotted. So humus is made up of decomposed or rotted parts of once-living things. It is also very crumbly, dark, and soft. Make sure you filled in your blanks. Heres a picture of humus. (Show picture from online.) 4. Our next type of soil is sand. Sand soil has large grains with large spaces between the grains. This lets water leave it quickly. Sand feels gritty. I want you to think about when you go to the beach and you pick up the sand with your hand and how the water quickly leaves your hand. Do you know why the water is leaving so quickly? Its because the sand has large grains and large spaces which lets the water leave quickly. Heres a picture of sand. (Show picture from online.) 5. The third type of soil is clay. Clay has smaller grains than sand or silt. We will talk about silt next but clay holds water easily. I wonder why it holds water easily. It has smaller grains! This makes clay sticky when wet, but when it dries, it forms hard clumps. Its like when people are making pottery; you know how they use water and clay to make pottery? Then they let it dry and it becomes hard. Heres a picture of clay. (Show picture from online.) 6. The last type of soil is silt. Silt has pieces that are smaller than sand. It feels like powder. So if silt has smaller grains than sand. Can silt hold water easily then? Yes! Lets look back up at our notes and look at which soil is has the largest grains to the smallest grains. Who has the largest grains everyone? Yes! Sand! Which soil is smaller than sand everyone? Yes! Silt! If you look at you clay notes it says that clay is much smaller than sand or silt. So which soil is the smallest? Yes! Clay! Heres a picture of silt. (Show picture from online.) 7. There is one more thing you need to know and that is that some soils are combinations of these soil types. For example, loam soil has large and small grains with lots of humus. This makes it dark and rich soil for plants. If you add sand to it, then it will be good for growing plants. 8. Now we are going to do an activity to represent the different types of soils. Im going to call you one group at a time to come to my table. I will put a video on for those of you that are waiting. (Call a group to the table.) 9. The activity may continue on to the next day for the sake of time. 10. (Get all materials out for activity.) First I am going to give you a cup. I want you to take a spoon and put pudding in your cup. The chocolate pudding represents silt. Now we are going to add the Graham Crackers on top of the Chocolate Pudding. This will represent the clay and sand. Now we are going to add the crushed Oreos on top of the Graham Crackers to represent the humus. Remember the humus was very crumbly, dark, and soft. Just for fun we are going to add Gummy Worms on top! (Continue this procedure with the other groups.) 11. Alright lets discussed what we learned today. How many types of soils are there? (Call on a student to answer.) Which soil is made up of decayed parts? (Call on a student to answer.) Which soil has large grains and spaces? (Call on a student to answer.) Which soil is smaller than silt and sand and forms hard clumps when it dries? (Call on student to answer.) Which soil feels like powder and is smaller than sand? (Call on student to answer.) Which soil is a combination of all types of soils? (Call on student to answer.) Thinking about our activity. What did the pudding represent everyone? What did the Graham Crackers represent everyone? What did the Oreos represent everyone? We had the Gummy Worms just for fun. Good job today!

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Lesson Plan Template

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Activity Analysis: The activities that I plan to use in this lesson are the pictures from online and the layers of soils activity with the food. These activities will help the students recognize the different types of soils easily. Each of these activities supports the lesson objective by the students being able to describe the properties of each type of soil. The activities support the students needs by them being hands-on and visual. I will use the document camera and Smartboard to display the note sheet for the students. References: Mrs. Pionteks Earth Materials Unit notebook
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