ED 345 Calvin College Teacher Intern Lesson Plan Template  

Teacher Intern: Hannah Hougen Date: April 2018  

Grade Level: 3rd Subject/ Topic: Science/Force & Motion 
Approx. time spent planning this lesson:  1.5 hours 
DOMAIN 1: PLANNING & PREPARATION 
Main Focus​: Friction - Sneaky Shoe Slide 
Brief Context​: This is the fourth lesson in the unit on force & motion. The students have not yet 
learned about friction.  
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills​: The students will know about gravity, balanced forces, and the 
effect that forces will have on different sized objects. 
Objectives:  
3-PS2-2​ Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion 
Assessment​:   
Formative: Student responses during discussion of the experiment 
Summative: Exit ticket  
Worldview​ ​Integration​: Though each one is unique, all students are capable of learning.  
Instructional Resources: ​Classroom benches, Experiment recording worksheet, Shoes (use 
students’), blank paper for exit ticket, lotion 
Universal Design for Learning Networks/Domains (​see UDL Guidelines​ ) 
RECOGNITION   STRATEGIC  AFFECTIVE 
Multiple Means of  Multiple Means of  Multiple Means of 
Representation  Expression  Engagement 
Options for Perception  Options for  Options for recruiting 
Verbally walk through the  action/interaction  interest 
data collection worksheet    Use students’ real shoes to 
with students  test their friction  
 
Options for  Options for Expression  Options for Sustaining Effort 
Language/Symbols  Build fluency with graduated  & Persistence 
Clarify vocabulary - friction  levels of support in filling out  Construct communities of 
the worksheet   learners engaged in common 
  interests or activities - this 
activity will be done as a 
whole class 

 
Options for Comprehension  Options for Executive  Options for Self-Regulation 
Activate background  Function   
knowledge by relating to  Prompts embedded to “stop   
students’ life experience  & think” - predictions 
around friction 
 
 
DOMAIN 2: THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT 
COVENANT MANAGEMENT: Relationship & community building​ ​(Note any specific ways in 
which you plan to build or strengthen relationships and community – student-student & teacher - 
student.] 
-We will get to do this activity as a class, promoting classroom community and collaborative 
thinking.  
CONDUCT MANAGEMENT:​ (Behavioral expectations, strategies to encourage self 
regulation, etc.) 
Identify at least 2 ways you will gain whole group attention: 
1. Ringing the bell 
2. Hand clapping rhythm 
3. “If you can hear my voice clap once”...etc.  
Strategies you intend to use to redirect individual students:   
1. Moving myself to be physically near to them 
2. Calling on individuals by name 
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT​: Note any specific ways you will use the environment to 
contribute to the learning.   
We will use the classroom bench for the experiment. Students will be able to move around the 
room to see better.  
 
DOMAIN 3: INSTRUCTION 
CONTENT MANAGEMENT: THE LESSON 
Motivation/Opening/Intro​: [Think creatively about how to engage your students into the 
content.] 
 
“Imagine it is a cold day outside. You don’t have any mittens or pockets to put your hands it. 
How would you warm up your hands?” 
-Ask students to respond - perhaps one student to say rubbing their hands together to warm 
them up - come back to this later in the lesson. 
-Tell students to rub their hands together, and see what it feels like. Give each student a small 
pump of lotion and then rub their hands together.  
-Ask: did the rubbing feeling change when you had lotion?  
  
Development​:  
-Explain the “sneaky shoe slide” activity : 
-the teacher will take two different shoes from students and place them on one end of one of 
the classroom benches 
-Choose shoes using random popsicle stick jar for student # 
-The bench will be angled downward, resting on the other bench  
-Allow students to make a few observations about both shoes, paying attention to the soles of 
the shoes, touching if necessary. 
-Students record something about each shoe, as well as a prediction of what they think will 
happen when the shoes are placed on the angled bench  
-Place the shoes on the bench.  
-Gradually, tip the bench until both shoes start sliding 
-Repeat - 4 trials of different shoe combinations 
-Ask students to return to their seats 
-(this might be the end of one day, finish lesson on the following day)  
-Ask students what made some shoes slide before other shoes.  
-Why didn’t the shoes slide down at the same time?  
-Read pages 2-5 of “Science Friction”, using the document camera to project the words on the 
screen  
-Ask students how friction was at play in the shoe slide activity 
 
Closure​: 
-Exit ticket:​ Write down a definition of friction 
 
 
 
DOMAIN #4: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 
 
CANDIDATE NOTED EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM​: Please note recent evidence of 
your efforts as a professional.   
   
 
 
 
SNEAKY SHOE SLIDE 
Name___________________________ 
 
Trial #1  
Shoe A:  Shoe B:  
 
Prediction:  
 
 
 
Actual Results:  
 
 
 
Trial #2  
Shoe A:  Shoe B:  
 
Prediction:  
 
 
 
Actual Results:  
 
 
 
Trial #3 
Shoe A:  Shoe B:  
 
Prediction:  
 
 
 
Actual Results:  
 
 
 
Trial #4 
Shoe A:  Shoe B:  
 
Prediction:  
 
 
 
Actual Results: