Day and Night

Elisabeth Lawson
Preschool Ages 3 4 Studying Science

Common Core Standards:

Earth and Space Sciences for Early Childhood
The Universe
1. Begin to use terms such as night and day, sun and moon to describe personal observations.
2. Observe and represent the pattern of day and night through play, art materials or conversation.

Lesson Summary:
For this lesson, we are going to discuss the terms night and day. We will discuss what the night time looks like.
We will discuss what the daytime looks like. We will learn about the sun and the moon. We will discuss what
activities occur during the day and what activities occur at night.
Estimated Duration:
This lesson will take approximately 100 minutes. We will do 20 minutes a day for a week.

Commentary:
Due to the age group that I am teaching, I will keep my lessons short. I do not anticipate any issues with the
children paying attention because the lessons are short. I will incorporate two different books into the lesson
plan as well. The first book I will use is titled Day and Night by Teddy Newton. It is a Disney/Pixar book and
has a short film that goes along with it. The second book I will use is Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise
Brown. There is also a short film to accompany this book. There are also games and worksheets to go along
with this.

The technology we will be using first is our SMART Board. The SMART Board is an interactive chalk board
which allows our teachers to display pictures, write and erase on the screen, display lessons and play videos.
The SMART Board is displayed at the front of the classroom
Instructional Procedures:

Please take the time to provide a clear narrative as to how the lesson will unfold.
Day 1:
For the first ten minutes, to introduce the lesson to the class we will sit down and watch a video on our new
SMART Board. On the SMART boards interactive chalkboard, we will watch a video made by PIXAR that
goes with their book Day and Night.
https://youtu.be/bi7ybKxymao
Day 2:
etc.

Pre-Assessment:
Identify one strategy to pre-assess student knowledge of the standards your lesson addresses.
Tell me what you will do to determine what your students already know about the information being taught in
the lesson.
Getting pre- assessment data helps you figure out how quickly or slowly you should move through the
lesson.
Pre-assessments may be as informal as a reflection on students prior learning, a conversation about concepts
or warm-up problems at the beginning of class that are not scored. They may be more formally structured,
such as a quiz or an assigned writing topic.
Scoring Guidelines:
Define scoring guidelines for the pre-assessment, which may take the form of teacher judgment, a
checklist or another scoring format. Scoring guidelines should reveal whether or not student has met
the standard so that instruction can be modified and targeted to learners accordingly.
For example- if youre planning on giving a quiz, tell me how youre going to grade it. If youre going
to conduct an observation on student activities, how will you assess it? Explain.
Teachers should conduct ongoing teacher assessment and student self assessment throughout instruction (this
is called formative assessment). These can be planned or conducted as opportunities for observation or
reflection arise. If planned, describe here.
Post-Assessment:

Your post-assessment should assess what students have learned AFTER the lesson is finished. This may take
the form of an exam, a student project (like a digital poster or infogram, or perhaps a youtube or xtranormal
video), or maybe a written work.
Scoring Guidelines:
Define scoring criteria for the post-assessment. Will you have a score and percentage for the exam, or
will it be pass/fail? How will you grade posters or other student projects? Be able to defend the process
behind how you score your post-assessment.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Describe how instruction can be differentiated (changed or altered) to meet the needs of gifted or accelerated
students: this might be an extra challenge assignment using technology, or an opportunity for these students
to peer-tutor students who are struggling- explain.
Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material:

Extension
Provide a link to a website where students could go to learn more about the standards you are addressing in
your lesson.
Briefly explain what the site is and how students could benefit from using it.

Homework Options and Home Connections

Describe work that will be assigned to students outside of the classroom. (In the next assignment, you may
provide examples (generated by you) of student work if possible). Brainstorm ways that you could make
these homework activities technology-based.
If your students are too young to do homework, use this space to explain how youd encourage parent
involvement at home in learning the skills addressed in your lesson.

Interdisciplinary Connections
Tell how the lesson can be integrated with at least two other content areas to strengthen student learning. For
example, if youre having your students do a comparison and contrast paper on Hamlet and Macbeth, what
other subjects could you draw into the lesson? Perhaps youd want to talk about the social and political climate
of the time period of the two plays (History) as well as the big questions asked in each play- to be, or not to
be? (Philosophy and Ethics).

Materials and Resources:

For teachers

List the materials you will need to teach the lesson.

REMEMBER: we want to use technology as much as we can in this lesson, and make
it as helpful as possible to our students. What will you need, and how will you do this?

For students

List the materials your students will need to complete the lesson and learn the material.
We want students to use technology for this lesson. What will they need (iPads,
laptops, a smartboard, etc)?

Key Vocabulary
List key terms that need to be defined prior to or as part of instruction here.

Additional Notes
Any additional information about your lesson- or notes for me- go here!