GCU Kindergarten Science Lesson Plan: Understanding Sense Organs

This kindergarten lesson plan, created by a student teacher, focuses on teaching young children about the five sense organs: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The lesson includes a summary, classroom and student factors, national and state learning standards, specific learning targets, and details on academic language. The plan outlines various resources, materials, and technology to be used, such as food items, toys, and multimedia. It incorporates anticipatory sets, multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression, with differentiation strategies for English language learners, students with special needs, and gifted students. Activities include group work, quizzes, drawing exercises, and object identification. Assessments are tailored to different student groups, and the lesson concludes with extension activities and self-reflection, highlighting the student teacher's experience and future plans for related lessons. The assignment brief includes information on lesson preparation, classroom factors, and national/state learning standards.

Running head: KINDERGARTEN LESSON PLAN
KINDERGATEN LESSON PLAN
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Teacher Candidate
Name:
Susan Kennedy
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Date: 1-20-2020
Unit/Subject: Science
Instructional Plan
Title:
Everything About Our Sense Organs
Lesson Summary and
Focus:
A lesson regarding the different sense organs in a human body will be
conducted. Students will be encouraged to identify and feel the five
senses in their bodies. Objects will be presented to them that will be
identified with their senses.
Classroom and
Student
Factors/Grouping:
Maximum children are five years of age. The class has a majority of weak
English learners. It also has a majority of low and middle socioeconomic
status. Most of the children are healthy. Few are visually impaired and
suffer from hearing disability. Therefore, the lesson will be planned,

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keeping the need for every child in mind. Visuals and sounds will be used
for gifted children.
National/State
Learning Standards:
The following two standards will be followed while taking a class on the
human sense organs.
 Recognise and describe patterns
 Use variables to express relationship
Specific Learning
Target(s)/Objectives:
The students will be able to
 Understand the five different sense organs in their body
 They will understand the vocabulary of each organ
 They will be able to make out the difference between the five
senses.
 They will be able to identify different objects with their senses.
Academic Language Before starting the lesson, children will be taught some of the academic
meanings that we will come across in the lesson. The words will include

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 Organs- help us to stay alive
 Senses- Helps us to feel an object
 Smell- to explore the scent of an object
While explaining the meaning of organs, I will describe the other parts of
the body that help us to work correctly. Senses can be explained by giving
the example of hot water. While the meaning of scent will be explained
with the use of powder and perfume.
Resources, Materials,
Equipment, and
Technology:
A variety of materials will be used while explaining the lesson to the
students. They are as follows:
 Food items, keeping in mind the allergic students.
 Small toys
 Perfume
 YouTube recording that has visuals and sounds.
 3D toys will be used for gifted children who can identify the
objects with the help of their senses.

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Anticipatory Set
I will start the lesson with a story to gradually discuss the sense organs. Each sense organ
will be addressed separately before bringing them together. First, I will ask the children.
What do they mean by sight? And then give a detailed explanation of the term. I will
show them pictures so that they can identify the objects with their eyes. Then I will go on
to explain the other organs with the help of examples and multimedia so that none of the
students are left out. To explain touch hard and soft objects will be given to them and
then questions will be asked. For teaching smell, I will use the fragrance of a perfume or
a powder and them. How can they smell the object? A similar method will be followed
for other organs as well. Lastly, a video will be shown to them that will help them to
Time
Needed
2 hours

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identify with all the senses that they have learned in the course.
Multiple Means of Representation
As discussed earlier, to explain the sense of sight pictures will be shown to the students
so that they can identify the objects.
 3D objects will be used for them who cannot see so that they can touch and
identify the object.
 For hearing different sounds of animals will be used with visuals, the latter for
those who cannot understand.
 The different fragrances of powder will be used so that students can identify the
smell.
 Food items will be given to taste to explain the organ of the tongue.
 Pictures will be shown to explain the meaning of sight.
 I will also call the students to differentiate between the sense organs by using the
materials that will be presented to them.
 Visuals and charts will also be used to make the class enjoyable.
.
How will I differentiate materials for each of the following groups:
 English language learners (ELL): For children who are learners of English
language, oral and visual teaching methods will be used as they will be able to
Time
Needed
1 hour

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cope with the lesson.
 Students with special needs: Visuals and different materials will be used for the
students who need special care. Other examples and resource materials will be
used to make them understand at the earliest.
 Students with gifted abilities: Students with gifted skills will be taught with the
help of visuals and 3D images along with objects that they can touch and feel so
that they can grasp the topic.
 Early finishers (those students who finish early and may need additional
resources/support): The ones who finish their work before others will come and
explain what they have learned from the lesson that will also benefit their friends.
Multiple Means of Engagement
To make the class more exciting and to involve all the student's certain activities will be
conducted. They are:
 Students will be divided into five groups, each defining different sense organs.
 I will organise a quiz based on the lesson, and the group that answers the most
number of the correct answer will win.
 Students will be asked to draw the things that they can do with their senses.
 I will present the students with a variety of objects and they will have to identify
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2 hours.

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them with their sense organs.
How I will differentiate activities for each of the following groups:
 English language learners (ELL): They will be divided into groups who will
explain the sense organs with the help of examples.
 Students with special needs: I will ask them to draw the different things that they
can do with their sense organs.
 Students with gifted abilities: I will display objects related to all sense organs in
front of them, and they will have to identify them.
 Early finishers (those students who finish early and may need additional
resources/support): Students who complete first will be asked to come and draw
the different sense organs on board. They will be asked questions to make sure
that they have understood the lesson.
Multiple Means of Expression
After the completion of activities and explanation of the lesson the students will be asked
questions based on what they have learned. They will be presented with models,
presentation and visuals according to which questions will be asked. If a child is unable
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to answer the question correctly, then he will be made to explain what has gone wrong
with his explanation without demotivating him. They will either write or orally deliver
what they have in the essay.
Explain how you will differentiate assessments for each of the following groups:
 English language learners (ELL): They will be asked to write a paragraph on the
lesson that was taught.
 Students with special needs: They will draw and explain the lesson.
 Students with gifted abilities: They will deliver a speech of what they have
learned.
 Early finishers (those students who finish early and may need additional
resources/support): They will explain the lesson with the help of models and
visuals presented to them.
Extension Activity and/or Homework
After the completion of the entire lesson, students will be given handouts where they will
need to write about the sense organs as well as draw diagrams.
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Self Reflection
I first had a conversation with my mentor teacher, with whom I selected the small
group of children. While selecting students, we made sure that every category of students is
chosen so that none of them are deprived and my experience would also be counted. Student

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from each background and physical disability was selected. I had minutely planned my lesson
plan for each student who would be benefitted from my lesson. Group activities and visuals
were prepared for abled as well as disabled ones so that all the students understand what I
was trying to teach. It was a pleasant experience for me as the response that I received was a
positive one. Everyone actively participated in the group and individual activities. The gifted
students, too were able to grasp the lesson quickly. Along with the above lesson, I have also
planned to conduct another lesson on a primary engineering topic that will be on using a
laptop. The same group of students will be selected. They will be taught how to switch in and
off the device. They will also come to know as to what can be done with a laptop such as
watching videos and learning lessons through games. Even gifted children will grasp the
lesson quickly. Recognise and describe patterns along with developing skills of estimation
and judgment are the two standards that will be followed in this lesson. Thus, the students
will benefit from both the lessons that will be undertaken by me.