ECED Lesson Plan Format

Your Name: Nora Reynolds

Lesson Title: Clouds

Age Group: pre-K (4-5 year-olds) Category/Subject Area: Literacy, Science, Social
Studies, Fine Arts, Physical Education
Time: 30-45 mins.



Indiana Foundations Behavioral Objective(s):

Write the correct number in
the box next to the
foundation designation
The children will listen and respond to a story; Little Cloud by Eric Carle.
The children will use their imaginations as they re-enact the story; becoming clouds that
are shapes of something they have thought of or were in the book.
The children will use their sense of touch to create their own cloud shapes with shaving
cream on the tables.

ELA.4.24
ELA.7.47

Reading
Materials/Necessary Preparation:
Book- Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Clear plastic cup, water, shaving cream and blue food coloring
4 -10 ounce cans of shaving cream
Navy blue paper and white crayons
Pan with water and cloth for cleanup
Bag of cotton balls

Math


SC.1.21
SC.1.24

Science

SS.3.40
Social Studies
P.1.10
Physical Educ. Anticipating and Planning for Challenges:

Music Challenge- Children may not want to participate in drawing in the shaving with their
hands/fingers due to sensory issues.
Children may become over excited in their drawings with shaving cream causing them to
put it on themselves or others.
Proactive measure- providing navy blue colored paper and crayons to draw clouds on
instead of the shaving cream and also giving instructions to keep the shaving cream on
the table tops only prior to the children playing/creating in the shaving cream.

FA.1.89
Visual Arts



Activity Procedure/Concept Exploration:

Blooms Taxonomy The children will sit on the rug as I read the story The children will be able to respond to
the pictures in the book. After I read the book (which ends with the clouds producing rain) I
will show the children visually how a cloud holds moisture and then lets it go resulting in
rain. This will be done by filling a clear plastic cup 2/3 way with water, topping it with
shaving cream and then putting a few drops of blue food coloring on top of the shaving
cream. As the shaving cream (cloud) absorbs the moisture (food coloring) it lets it go (rain)
when there is too much moisture. The children will then stand up and I will separate them
into the group of clouds and Little Cloud as they re-enact the story on the rug.

X Knowledge

X Comprehension

X Application

X Analysis

Synthesis

X Evaluation

Learning Styles/Domains
After they have re-enacted the story I will use all 3 of the half-circle tables and have 4
children at each table so they can create their own clouds on the table tops with shaving
cream that I squirt on the table. The rectangular shaped art table will be where children
can draw their own clouds with white crayon if they do not want to play in the shaving
cream or if they want to make more clouds in another way.

Explain how this activity is DAP:

Children are naturally curious about the world that they live in. Explaining what clouds are
and providing hands-on activities will help to answer their questions about nature.

X Visual/Spatial

X Auditory Inquiry/Open-ended questions: (List at least 3)

X Kinesthetic Is it cloudy outside today? What shape are the clouds today? Have you ever seen the sky
without clouds in it? What do you think a cloud might feel like? Do you think a cloud is
heavy or light? Why does it rain? Where does the rain come from?


X Creative

X Naturalist

X Cognitive

X Physical

X Emotional

X Social

Extensions/
Modifications I will have
a bag of cotton balls for the
children to use the cotton
balls to make their own
clouds and shape them as
they wish into different
cloud shapes and sizes.
They can re-enact the story
with the cotton balls also.
Closure/Transitions: After the children are finished playing in the shaving cream/drawing
clouds we will gather on the rug again and I will suggest to them to look at the sky after
school to see if there are clouds and if there are, what do they look like? I will ask them
to try to look at the sky each day of Spring Break to see if they see any clouds and if the
clouds looked like anything.



Assessment:

The teacher will observe the children and document through the use of anecdotal notes,
the abilities of the children to listen to the story, re-enact the story, predict what happens
when clouds hold too much moisture and their interpretations of clouds by creating their
own through the use of different mediums.