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Life Cycle Lesson Plan

This lesson plan aims to teach pre-kindergarten students about growth and change through exploring the concept of life cycles. The teacher will read the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and show videos on animal life cycles. Students will then create a project using baby photos to illustrate the changes they have experienced. By making connections between texts and using new vocabulary words, students will demonstrate their understanding of life cycles and how people and other living things change over time.

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Life Cycle Lesson Plan

This lesson plan aims to teach pre-kindergarten students about growth and change through exploring the concept of life cycles. The teacher will read the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and show videos on animal life cycles. Students will then create a project using baby photos to illustrate the changes they have experienced. By making connections between texts and using new vocabulary words, students will demonstrate their understanding of life cycles and how people and other living things change over time.

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Lesson Title: How do we grow and Change?

Grade/Age: Prek 4-5 year olds.

I. Central Focus/Overall Aim: The central focus of this lesson plan is to support my student
learning and understanding of change and growth. To help children learn and understand
this concept, I will pose the following essential questions: “What happens when we grow”.
My students would be in engaged in the following activities: We would first read a story
called “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. We will then observe videos on
insect/animal life cycles. We will the create a project using their baby pictures. My
students would be in engaged in the following activities: The overall aim of this lesson is
to support children’s abilities to describe the cycle of their growth and change. My
students would have a better understanding between with insect changes because of the
read aloud that we would be reading. My activity would strengthen and support with
children vocabulary development and knowledge of their physical appearance. This would
develop a understanding of how change is okay.

II. Common Core Standards (Alternate Standard):

From Prek Foundation Common Core

ELA:
1. With prompting and support, make connections between self, text, and the world
around them
Social Studies:
4. Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to
relate past events to their present and future activities

III. Language/Literacy Objective:

Children would be able to make connections across texts, while using new vocabularies
words to express their thinking in conversations. These connections would demonstrate
by their project which would show them the changes that they face throughout their life.

Vocabulary words:
Grow, change, life cycle, remember, collage, cocoon and chrysalis

IV. Assessment: Before going through the project, I would be going through the essential
question which is “How do we grow and change”? This question would in encourage
conversation by observing different types of life cycle including themselves.

a. Informal: (formative)
b. Formal: (summative)

Use vocabulary word while creating their own life cycle timeline from birth to now.

V. LeMaterials:
Variety of different life cycle pictures of everything including myself
Teachers made charts of life cycle of a butterfly, chicken, humans
Chart paper
Drawing paper
Students picture from birth to now
Markers
Crayons
Pencil
Paint

VI. Instructional Strategies/Procedures:

Beginning ---- whole group


Morning Message: “Today is Monday April 1,2021. Today we will be able to learn what is a
life cycle.”
Describe the book we would be reading which is “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”.
Watch this life cycle video: The Life Cycle Song

Middle---- Small Group:


Review the life cycle drawings with children. I would then add the essential question again
here to further an understanding of the concept or to challenge those children who
demonstrate an understanding of the concept. This would of course happen upon what my
children will say when they describe their own drawing, using their baby pictures.

End—Closing Circle:
Wrap up:

“Friends, today we did a really good job by exploring our life cycle. You all learned
that in each minute we are growing and changing in time. So, keep exploring and
learning by using your looking eyes to look at pictures to understand the story.
VII. Differentiations:

For my multilingual learners who’s primary language is Spanish, I will state the life cycle in
English first and then Spanish so they can repeat in both languages. From there I will use
visuals to encourage students to name the life cycle stages of an animal, insect, and human.
While they create their own life cycle timeline, I would write their dictation in English and in
Spanish. This will give them a visual of vocabulary. This strategy would encourage students to
actively participate in the language they are most comfortable in using.

For my student who has a difficulty staying on task, I will have the student sit close to me
during read aloud and lesson activities. This strategy would be helpful because it would
encourage her to focus if they become my helper during the read aloud. I will then discuss
during small group while creating our own life cycle timeline a time where he/she remembers.
This strategy would encourage him/her to think back about their life stages and increase their
attention to helping the student focus.

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