SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template

TOPIC DETAILS CK

Name Tessa Swiger

Subject Science

Grade Level Kindergarten

Date/Duration 1 class period

RATIONALE Our ears help us to hear and identify sounds.

INTRODUCTION Activating Prior Knowledge

The class will discuss what activities they did in the prior lesson (lesson plan 1).
Students will go more in depth about hearing.

Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set

Students will listen to the story Hearing: The Five Senses by Rebecca Rissman, and
discuss elements of sound in the story.

EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION Big Idea Statement

Our ears help us to hear the sounds around us.

Essential Question Statement

Why type of sounds do we hear?
How can we describe sounds?

Objective Statement (Audience, Behavior, Condition, Degree)

Students will work in pairs to match sounds in different eggs in six different
trials, with 75% accuracy.

Vocabulary
Sound, hearing, ear, loud, soft, buzz, sizzle, beat, boom, and other descriptive
words regarding sounds.

Transition
Students will be put into pairs (based on seats). Each pair will receive an egg
carton that are full of 12 plastic eggs (two different colors ).
LESSON PROCEDURE Pre-Assessment of Students
Students will be asked to choose an egg. After choosing, students will
demonstrate how can they make their egg sound loud, soft, and any other ways
they can think of (fast, slow, etc.).

Modeling of the Concept

Students will be given time to listen to each one of their eggs, because they are
each filled with different objects (beans, ride, coin, lentils, bottle top, and
nothing).

Guiding the Practice

Students will be prompted to use their ears to listen to each sound the eggs
make.

Providing Independent Practice

With their partners, students will match one green egg to one blue egg with the
same sounds.

Transition
After students have completed this, they will open up each egg to check to see if
the items match.

If time is left over, students can creat their own egg shakers using left over filler
material from the eggs.

READING MATERIALS, Hearing: The Five Senses by Rebecca Rissman

TECHNOLOGY, AND Egg Cartons
SUPPLIES Green plastic eggs
Blue plastic eggs
beans, ride, coin, lentils, bottle top

EVALUATION OF THE Formal Evaluation

LEARNING/MASTERY The eggs will be matched to the same sound as another egg.
OF THE CONCEPT

Informal Evaluation
Student discussion in pairs, large group discussion, questioning, observation.

CLOSURE Summary and Review of the Learning

What do we use our ears for? How can they help us? Were they helpful for this
activity?
Homework/Assignments
N/A