Kindergarten Fall Season Lesson: Understanding Autumn Changes

The 'Awesome Autumn Lesson Plan for Kindergarteners' is a comprehensive educational guide designed to introduce young learners to the concept of seasonal changes during the autumn period. Aimed at children in kindergarten, this lesson plan encapsulates various learning domains, including language arts, mathematics, science, and art. The curriculum engages students with activities that explore the transition from summer to winter, emphasizing the cooling weather, cessation of plant growth, changing leaf colors, and animal behaviors such as hibernation. Vocabulary specific to the season is introduced and practiced, covering words like 'fall,' 'leaves,' 'sleep,' 'pumpkin,' and 'apple.' Essential questions guide students to ponder significant concepts such as why leaves change color or how animals prepare for winter. The lesson incorporates different instructional strategies suitable for a diverse classroom setting, including accommodations for children with special needs. It employs technology through visual aids like projections and videos to illustrate the life cycle of plants. A reflection section is included after teaching to evaluate the effectiveness of materials and strategies used. This well-rounded plan serves as an essential tool for educators looking to enrich their kindergarten curriculum with a focus on seasonal awareness.

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Lesson Topic: Awesome Autumn Grade level: kindergarten
Length of lesson: 20 minutes
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Content Standard(s):
 Children will show progress in language, math, arts and science concepts by
understanding the seasonal changes when they:
1. Express interest in the changes of the colors of the trees
2. Explore the reason for this changes
3. Know the kinds of the trees that changes color during fall
4. Know the physical properties that cause changing colors
5. Begin to find other changes in nature during fall
6. Use colors pencils to identify and describe the leaves during fall
 Children will progress in the approaches in learning when they:
1. Give attention on the activities in class.
2. Feel interested in discovering as well as learning new lessons.
3. Apply their experiences in finding new aspects and connect them with
new lessons
4. Participate in knowledge gathering and sharing familiar experiences.
Understanding (s)/goals
Students will understand:
 The basic reasons of season
Essential Question(s):
 Why does the season change?
 What are the main signs of season

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change
 Autumn is a time of transition
from summer to winter.
 The weather begins to get colder
and plants stop growing but it is
the best time to sprout.
 The leaves change from green to
red, then orange, yellow, finally
brown before they fall.
 Many species began to store food
in their nests for winter.
 In USA, autumn is the time to
celebrate Halloween and
Thanksgiving.
 Pumpkins are the biggest crop and
pies and soups are made from
them.
 Many animals like
hedgehogs, squirrels, groundhogs
bat and marmots stop working and
sleep in their shelters till winter
finishes.
 Vocabulary words: Fall, leaves,
change?
 Why does autumn call the Fall?
 What are the changes can be felt
in weather?
 What are the fruits and vegetable
grow in this season?
 What changes can be found in
animal kingdom?
 What are the festivals celebrated
in autumn?
 What is hibernation?

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sleep, autumn, winter, pumpkin,
apple, seed and explain their
meanings.
Student objectives (outcomes):
Students will be able to:
 Identify the colors that denote the season
 Use words to describe the changes they see
 Develop all the features of language to explain through listening, speaking,
reading, drawing, writhing and singing as they engage in the class activity.
 Ask farther queries to know more and complete the activity.
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Performance Task(s):
 Study different types of trees in
their playground area.
 Coloring the leaves and identify
those that fit for fall.
 Learning about hibernation
 Explore the changes in the sky
Other Evidence:
 Easily completing the picture of
apple, pumpkin and Fall leaves
activity.
 Using shapes, pictures, rhymes,
song colors to explain the picture.
 Students can verbally describe the

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 Explore masks for Halloween major changes in season and
identify the features.
 Children can describe the process
to the teachers and their peers for
creating the pumpkin, leaves and
apple pictures.
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
Pre-Assessment:
Plan a seasonal unit as there are a lot of topics to cover. Create charts for fall
curriculum for learning about apple, pumpkin, leaves and hibernating animals.
Procedure
1. Teach the students drawing a tree
2. Ask them to identify the color of Fall.
3. Ask them to draw a picture of fallen leaf and color it
4. Teach them the use of scarecrow and ask them to draw one
5. Make them differentiate an apple seed from a pumpkin seed
6. Divide them into two groups one for planting apple tree and one for planting a
pumpkin tree.
7. Ask them to plant and teach them their life cycles
8. Invite them to draw a Halloween mask and color them
9. Teach them to identify the hibernating animals
10. Arrange a small Halloween party.

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Materials
 Blue, black, brown, yellow, blue, red crayons or paints
 Paintbrushes
 Paper
 Whiteboard or poster
 Leaves for painting (1 per student)
 Cups (3 per student for each paint color)
 Markers
 Pens
 towels
 Color charts
 String
 Apple and pumpkin seeds
 Water
 Tub
 soil
 Written poem: Leaves are falling, leaves are falling; To the
ground, to the ground; Red, orange,yellow,red,
orange,yellow; Green and brown, green and brown.
Extensions & Enrichment:
 As the students complete their pictures and masks ask them to label the tree or
put any words they have learnt from the lesson. Teach them spellings related to
their art.

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 Ask children how they plant trees and teach them what materials are needed
for a tree to survive.
Differentiated Instruction:
 the children coming from different culture elaborate the theme of fall to them.
Make them interested about the popular celebration during fall.
 The students showing interest in planting trees, ask them to celebrate apple
seed’s birthday.
 Children preferring painting, ask them to elaborate the color change in the
leaves.
Accommodations:
 For a child with blindness: engage him in planting trees, encourage him to feel
the texture of a normal leaf and an autumn leaf.
 For a child with autism: display masks to grow interest first and provide step-
by- step charts for completing activity.
Technology:
In this activities the pectoral effect has been created through projection and videos to
explain the life cycle of the plants.
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Reflection following Teaching:
 The material and strategies were extensively effective to teach the kindergarten
students about the impact of Fall in the nature.
 Some difficulties were there for the blind students as they could not see the
pictures and videos
 The students might have gain more knowledge about the Fall if they had an
educational excursion.

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