EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan Template

Spiders

Kindergarten

Common Core Standards:

1. Ask questions to seek explanations about phenomena of interest.

Lesson Summary:

This lesson will be to examine spiders in a way of incorporating fine motor skills, knowledge, and numbers.

Estimated Duration:

The estimated duration for my lesson about spiders will be 120 minutes. We will be splitting the minutes up
into 2 days. The students will be doing a few activities a day to split the time up into shorter times to capture
their attention more and not lose them.

Commentary:

This lesson will be given around Halloween while the kids are getting in the spirit and excited. I was
associating spiders with fall and Halloween to add a theme to the holidays. The children will learn about the
amount of legs they have, different shapes they are, as well as what spiders can do.

Instructional Procedures:

Day 1:

First 10 min introductory- Students will be given a coloring page of a spider to color in the lines on.
Next 20 minutes- I will gather the glass into a reading circle and ask everybody what they know about
spiders/ what they like and dislike. We will write them down on a post it notes and stick them on a white
board for everybody to be able to view.
10 Minutes- While we are at the reading circle, we will next read the book Diary of a Spider by Doreen
Cronin.
30 min- The class will do a hands-on worksheet which will include numbers. It will be a worksheet with 5
webs on it with different number of spiders on each one. The students will complete the sentence I see _
spiders and put the number of spiders each one sees on the web.

Day 2:

10 min- While we are gathered at circle time, I will read the class a book titled The Very Busy Spider
written by Eric Carle. This book will hopefully allow the class to understand more about what spiders do.
10 min- We will talk about why spiders spin webs and what they look like
30 min- The class will go back to their seats and we will do a spider web activity. The activity will involve
creating a spider web with a paper plate, and string. We will cut the center out of the paper plate and then
hole punch around the sides to create a bunch of holes around the plate. We will then thread the string
through the holes connecting them resulting in a web. This will give the children a chance to work on their
fine motor skills as well.
10 min- We will end the lesson on an opinion of each student. They will come place a check mark on the
board whether they like or dislike spiders after learning more about them and then we will do a group tally
and figure out what was the more popular opinion.

Pre-Assessment:

I will be giving the pre- assessment for my spider lesson plan on day one. While the students gather
in the reading circle, we are going to talk about what we already know about spiders. I will let
everyone give one thing they like/dislike or what they already know about them. Every time a student
answers I will write down word for word what they said on post it notes. All the notes will be hung
up on the white board for everyone to view. This will give me an opportunity to look over what the
children already know and what they are the most interested in about spiders.

Scoring Guidelines:

As I said in the pre-assessment, I will hang all of the post it’s of what the students have said about
spiders which will give me an opportunity to look over all of their thoughts. I will take notes on what
was said the most that interested them, and I will also make note of what things they already know.
From the information that I’m able to collect I will be able to plan the rest of the lesson plan and
make any necessary changes to meet the needs of the children.

Post-Assessment:
For the post assignment I will gather all the kids again and we will look at our old post it notes of what we
knew before we began the lesson. I will then have each of them raise their hand and tell me something new
that they found out about spiders or what was the most interesting about the lesson.

Scoring Guidelines:

To be able to “grade” and reflect on how the lesson went and what the students had gotten out of it, I
will compare the two boards of the notes. I will make a PowerPoint on what the children knew before
we started our spider lesson to what they now know and hopefully I will be able to see a change and
differences in the way the kids view spiders. I will share the PowerPoint with the class to reflect on
their growth with them.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material:
Additional activities could be more worksheets on spiders and more interesting videos to get the students
more interested in the topic.

Extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTCJwemsQEA

This a YouTube video where children can watch and be told interesting facts about spiders in a fun way.

Homework Options and Home Connections

Interdisciplinary Connections
This lesson can be integrated with two strands, focusing on a activity with deliberate concentration despite
distractions as well as focusing on the task at hand even when frustrated or challenged.
Materials and Resources:

For teachers Books post it notes, PowerPoint, and YouTube, scissors, paper plates, hole puncher,
string.

For students computers/iPad (anything for the internet)

Key Vocabulary

Arachnids, webs, opinion

Additional Notes