MATH AND SCIENCE FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS1
Math and Science for Elementary Students
Following the Guidelines of the American Psychological Association
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Introduction
This is a lesson plan for an early childhood education math and science class. In Part 2 of the assignment I will reflect on my past experiences in science classes.
Part 1
Topic: Easter Egg Matching
Subject Area: Pre-K: Math
Vocabulary:
Materials: Easter Eggs with number and representation of each number previously written on each egg.
Standard: Identifies numbers 1-10
Concept: Understanding which egg half’s to match
Objective: SWBAT match the correct number with its corresponding representation.
The Five E’s
Engage/Excite: Introduce the lesson in the Spring, and engage the students by talking about Easter related topics (Easter egg hunts, the Easter bunny). Review numbers 1-10 prior to beginning the game.
Explore: Hand out the eggs and allow students to find the matching numbers. Allow them to match the incorrect eggs and ask the students why the matched the eggs the way they did.
Explain: Explain the purpose of this activity, which is to practice identifying numbers 1-10.
Extend: Students are practicing their numbers 1-10 while at the same time, having fun with Easter eggs.
Evaluate: As a teacher it is important for me to evaluate this activity. Did the students learn what they were supposed to? Did they have fun? What can I do differently next time to improve the lesson?
Part 2
When I was growing up I loved science class. My school made science class more interesting by having science contests. At one point I had asked my mother: what keeps our home warm? This was during the colder months. She told me that it is in the insulation in the home that helps to keep the home warm. I started doing some research.
I discovered that at that time many homes were insulated in order to keep them warm, however some of them would use asbestos in order to insulate the home and this could create environmental and toxic situations for humans.
I took an old Polaroid camera box and created a structure of a home and then used some materials that I received from my father which was pink sponge basically because he was working in the science field at the time in order to show the insulation of a home.
I wrote up a report of the insulation that occurs in a home and also discussed the dangers of asbestos.
My science project won the school prize and my teachers thought it could reach the state level in order to win more prizes.
Once I reached the state level, I did win an award!
Now you see that many newly constructed homes do not use asbestos for insulation and that asbestos has been taken out of homes that had it before once they are renovated.
Another science project I did was with a co-student in my class and we decided to do it on soap. Our question basically was: does it really matter what soap that use in order to get something clean?
There are so many different kinds of soap on the market, such as shampoos, conditioners, dish soap, hand soap, body soap, etc. Both my co-student and I discovered on swatches of cloth that any kind of soap can be used to clean something and that the different varieties of soap are mainly constructed as a marketing tool so that consumers will purchase more of basically the same product.
We wrote up a report and we also won prizes for the science project both at the school level as well as the state level. Now you can see in many of the new soap products, there are more products that are made that are known as all-purpose soaps where you can use just one all-purpose soap to clean everything.
Conclusion
This has been a lesson plan for an early childhood education math and science class. In Part 2 of the assignment I reflected on my past experiences in science classes.