Public Schools of the Tarrytowns

200 North Broadway

Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
PRE OBSERVATION PLAN
Name: Benita Afonso

Assignment: First Grade ESL

Teacher

School: WL Morse

Date: November 2, 2015

Tenured
I.

What is the instructional objective for this lesson?

Content Objectives: The students will be able to

participate in an echolocation activity.
The students will be able to add/change to their new
learning chart about bats.
Language Objectives: The students will be able
to define what is echolocation.
II.

To which N.Y.S CCLS standard is this lesson aligned?

ELA
RIT. 1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a
text to
describe key ideas
SL. 1.1 Participate in collaborative
conversations with
diverse partners about grade 1 topics and
texts with peers and adults in small and
large groups.
SL. 1.6 Produce complete sentences when
appropriate
to task and situation.

SL. 1.4 Describe people, places, things, and

events with
relevant details, expressing ideas and
feelings clearly.
L. 1.1 Demonstrate command of the
conventions of
standard English grammar and usage when
writing
or speaking.
W.1.8 With guidance and support from adults,
recall
information from experiences or gather
information
from provided sources to
answer a question.
III.

Please outline this lesson:

Materials: Smartboard (music video-Echolocation),

definition sheet and, book Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats,
by Ann Earle
Introduction: Have the students seated on the rug. Tell
the children that we are going to learn many new vocabulary
words about bats. Some you may have heard of before and
some you have not. Todays new word is going to be
echolocation.
Activities: I will proceed to explain what is echolocation
by reading a section in the book. When the section is
over. We will proceed to do an echolocation activity.
The students will sent in a circle. One child will be
chosen to be a bat. He/she will be blindfolded with a
shaker. Another child standing on the outside of the
circle will also have a shaker. As the bat shakes the
container, the circle member waits a few seconds then
shakes back to simulate the sound waves bouncing
back. Then the bat tries to locate its prey

The children will then return to their seats and draw

what echolocation looks like and its definition.

IV.

Extension Activities: Our group will continue learning new

vocabulary about Bats. We will also continue to add to
our new learning as well as reorganizing our
misconceptions about bats.
How will student learning be assessed throughout the lesson?
Through teacher observation and student participation
and completion of the procedure activity.

V.

Where does this lesson fit in relation to the unit of study?

What came before it? What will follow?

This lesson fits in with the first grade curriculum-non fiction

mini unit.
VI. Describe the students in this class:
There is 1 new comer students and 5 expanding
students. Each individual is at different
verbal/learning levels.
VI.

Are there any specific things you would like me to consider or

observe?