Friday, May 13, 2011

Cat in the Hat Snack Lesson Plan

Preschool Lab
Instructional Plan Format


Teacher Name: Kortney Landrith
Date:

Activity Name:  Cat in the Hat Snack
Domain Focus (main content area): Mathematics


1.       Goals/Learning Objectives: Demonstrates increasing interest and awareness of numbers and counting in a means for solving problems and determining quantity
Following step by step directions

2.       Materials Needed:
Ingredients for one:
                Scoop of vanilla ice cream
                Mini ice cream cone wrapped with a strip of red fruit by the foot snack
                3 M&M’s Minis candies
                6 small pieces of twizzlers pull and peel licorice 
Paper plate for each child
Plastic spoon for each child 
3.       Procedures
a.       Teacher Preparations: use an ice cream scoop and scoop balls of ice cream onto a cookie sheet and then place sheet in the freezer. Cut red Fruit by the Foot snack into 4 inch strips. Wrap one strip around each cone. Arrange the supplies and ingredients for easy student access. Display the recipe cards by the materials for the students to follow.
b.      Introduction: Talk about the different numbers of items the students will need to create their snack and ask them to guess what they will be making with the materials
c.       Main activity: Have the parts of the snack set up at a table and have the student’s line up and follow the activity cards to create their snack. Have the students count out the amount of items they need and put them together
d.      Closure:  Ask the students what they have made with the number of items they have put together
e.      Transition:  allow the students to eat their snacks

4.       Suggestions for Simplification/Extension:

5.       Assessment:  What method will you use to evaluate the objectives and child learning?
Observe the process and see if the students are using the materials to create items properly


6.       Evaluation: 
a.       List of all children who participated in the activity, outcomes, modifications
b.      Evaluation of your teaching

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