Website Lesson Plan.pdf - ED101 - Boston University

ED 101 Educational Technology Lab - Fall 2009
Boston University – School of Education
LESSON PLAN
Your Name Courtney Foley Supervising Mrs. O’Neill
Teacher
Grade/School 1st Grade/Harrington Elementary School
Lesson title Organisms Content area Life Science
Time of activities - Duration of 45 minutes
Lesson/Unit
REMINDER: Consult with your supervising teacher. Discuss with him/her all aspects
of this lesson plan, including what topic, content, goals, and objectives would s/he want
you to address with your ED 101 web-based lesson project. S/he is your “client” for the
ED 101 website project.
1. Content Area: Life Science: Organisms. The content that will be covered in this
lesson includes the difference between living and nonliving organisms, where
different organisms live, and distinctions between organisms. There will also be a
focus on how different organisms eat, grow, and reproduce.
2. Topic: The specific topic of my lesson will be identifying organisms from
various places throughout the world and finding similarities and differences
between them. The students will find patterns and commonalities between
animals that live on opposite sides of the world. They will also find differences
between animals that are found in the same region. Students will understand the
concept of diversity and how it makes studying organisms so interesting.
3. Goals: I would like the students to know different classifications for organisms
and ways of describing them. I would also like the students to be able to
recognize and classify a number of different organisms I present to them. I would
like for the students to see that even though there are many different ways of
categorizing organisms, the concept of being an organism is universal.
4. Objectives:
• My students will be able to define what an organism is.
• My students will be able to identify at least five different terrestrial and
marine organisms.
• My students will be able to match those ten organisms to their natural habitats.
• My students will be able to define key vocabulary words that relate to
organisms such as habitat, diet, reproduction, and environment.
• My students will be able to relate the ten organisms to each other as well as
differentiate between them.

• My students will write and summarize about what they learned from the
lesson and incorporate what they knew from outside of the classroom.
• My students will point out what they do not understand and enquire about it.
5. Technology, materials and aids: In my lesson, I will use my Mac laptop, the
Internet, worksheets, and a picture book. I will have one picture book, one
computer, and one worksheet for each student (approximately twenty
worksheets).
6. Procedures/methods:
a. Overview: I will commence by reading the picture book, which will pertain
to organisms. I have not yet chosen the picture book. After that we will have
a discussion about the book before looking at the website. The website will
have factual information about organisms as well as activities to do together
as a class. After, I will hand out a worksheet that summarizes the lesson.
Once the students finish the worksheet, they will write a small story about an
encounter they once had with an organism.
b. Introduction: The lesson will begin by introducing a picture book that has to
do with organisms. We will read it together and then discuss it.
c. Activities: After reading the picture book to the students, we will have a
discussion on what everyone already knows about organisms. We will make a
list of what they know and what they would like to find out. From there, we
will look at the website I created on the projector. We will read the facts on
the website out loud. Students will have opportunities throughout the lesson
to ask questions if they do not understand something. Once we finish the
activities on the website, the students will finish a worksheet that asks
questions and summarizes what we went over on the website and in the
picture book. We will look at the list to see if the students had learned what
they had been questioning before the website. Finally, the students will write
a story, as they do during Writer’s Workshop, about an encounter they once
had with an organism.
d. Follow-up: After the lesson, the students will have a small assignment to go
home and find out information about their favorite organisms to share with the
class.
7. Curriculum Frameworks: (Optional)*
Standard #8
• Observe and discuss animals in their natural habitats.
• Observe and record the names of plants and animals in your neighborhood or on a
field trip, then prepare a field guide that describes these animals.
• Choose an animal and provide students with a list of its habitat needs. Allow the
students to imagine that they are that animal. Can they find what they need to
survive (i.e., food, water, shelter/space)?

8. Technology Frameworks: (Required)
K-2: 1.2 Explain that icons (e.g., recycle bin/trash, folder) are symbols used to
signify a command, file, or application.
K-2: 1.3 Identify, locate, and use letters, numbers, and special keys (e.g., space
bar, Shift, Delete) on the keyboard.
K-2: 1.9 Explain that the Internet links computers around the world, allowing
people to access information and communicate.
K-2: 2.1 Follow classroom rules for the responsible use of computers, peripheral
devices, and resources.
K-2: 2.6 Follow the school rules for safe and ethical Internet use. (Use of Internet
in this grade span is determined by district policy.)