KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

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4.2. PK.B Identify a wetland as an ecosystem of Pennsylvania
I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes):
A. The students will be able to:
1. Identify and describe what a wetland is by reproducing a model of a
wetland habitat.
2. Classify the different types of wetland by a mini quiz on the wetland
habitats.
II. Instructional Materials
A. Laminated cards: with pictures of different wetland habitats.
B. Guided Note sheet for the PowerPoint
III. Subject Matter/Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea, outline of
additional content)
A. Prerequisite skills
1. Have an understanding of the previous habitats covered: grassland
and desert.
2. Be able to describe what an ecosystem is in a specific habitat.
B. Key Vocabulary
1. Wetland: An area of land (such as a marsh or swamp) that is
covered with shallow water
2. Ecosystem: All the living and nonliving things in a certain area.
3. Swamps: spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of
trees and other vegetation
4. Pond: A body of water surrounded by land.
5. Marsh: A low, wetland. Grasses and reeds grow in marshes.

6. Vegetation: all the plants or plant life of a place

C. Big Idea
1. Explain and distinguish what a wetland is and what animals and
plants live in the habitat.
D. Additional content
1. What does the wetland look like?
2. What are the different types of wetland?
1. Pond, Swap, River
IV. Implementation
A. Introduction
This is the first day of the unit; on the board the teacher will write, Please use
your observing eyes and look at the cards on your table. Give the children
about 5 to 10 minutes to examine the cards in their groups. Next direct the
students to discuss with their table of what they notice is different or similar
between the different wetland habitats.
B. Development
1. To introduce the vocabulary that is needed for the unit. Add out the
outline for the PowerPoint. The students will be following along
filling in the blanks. The PowerPoint will be on the desktop labeled,
Wetland Day1. (See attached)
2. After the going through the PowerPoint, there is a link attached to a
Bill Nye movie on the topic of wetlands for the children to watch.
There will then be a classroom discussion on what we learned from
the PowerPoint and the video. They will have a chance to compare
this to the other two habitats that we had learned about. (See
attached)
3. The closing part of lesson is the children had to do make a brown
paper bag book about the wetland. The will required making the
book about wetland. This is to be done with out their notes, but can
they can talk to their partners. It is to see what information they can
remember.
C. Closure
1. At the end of the lesson the children will have a chance to share what
they had and included in their book. We will also finish by making a
chart as a class of what we learned in a chart. This chart will be hung
up with the other habitat charts that we had.

D. Accommodations/Differentiation

1. To accommodate Landon, a 2nd grade boy with dyslexia, I will have

the guided notes with some pictures on it. For the book they would
be making I would not be grading his on spelling but instead that he
knew the information.
2. Guided notes will be given to all students to follow along with the
PowerPoint.
E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
1. Formative
1. The formative assessment is the book that the children made at the end
of the lesson. This is display what concepts they remembered and
understood along with what information that was not remembered that
is important for them to know.

2. Summative
1. This will be the unit test at the end of the lesson.

V. Reflective Response
A. Report of Student Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives (Reflection on
student performance written after lesson is taught, includes remediation for
students who fail to meet acceptable level of achievement)
Remediation Plan
B. Personal Reflection (Questions written before lesson is taught. Reflective
answers to question recorded after lesson is taught)
VI. Resources (in APA format)
Bill Nye The Science Guy S03E17 Wetlands [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=mPhDqhu1dA8&index=1&list=PLcKvKfskodJREsLX_tOY4Zo7yX6qM0Koc
Ecosystem, wetland, pond, marsh. (2001). In Macmillan Dictionary for Children (4th.
rev. ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Learn about Wetlands. (n.d.). Retrieved from Ducks Unlimited Canada website:
http://www.ducks.ca/learn-about-wetlands/wildlife/mallard/
Plants and animals in NSW Wetland. (2013, March 13). Retrieved from Office of
Environment and Heritage website:
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/wetlands/wetlandplantsAnimals.htm
Shedd, W. (1994). The Kid's Wildlife Book. Charlotte, VT: Williamson Publishing Co.
Swamp. (n.d.). Retrieved from Dictionary.com website:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/swamp
Vegetation. (n.d.). Retrieved from Dictionary.com website:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vegetation?s=ts