Lesson Plan
Teacher Candidate: Miss Rogers Date: February 15,2023
Group Size: 20 Allotted Time: 40 Grade Level: 1st
Subject or Topic: Pa Farm Animals
Common Core/PA Standard(s):
Standard - 3.1.4.A1
Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share
Learning Targets/Objectives:
● The goal is for Students to understand the different animals that live on PA farms .
● Students should be able to understand which animals eat what foods.
● Students should be able to understand what the different care is for each animal.
Formative Assessment Approaches: Evidence observation or method of
1. Pa farm animal powerpoint collection:
2. Complete sentence fact sheet on pa 1. Observation
farm animals 2. Checklist
…. …
Assessment Scale for any of the assessments above if needed
● At the direction of the teacher they will go over different Pa farm animals with an
engaging powerpoint.
● The teacher will also do the complete sentence fact sheet on Pa farm animals with the
students on the smart board.
Summative if applicable
Subject Matter/ Science Pa Farm Animals
Prerequisites:
● Students having a basic understanding of what a Pa farm animal is.
● Students having a basic understanding of which animal eats what food.
● Students having a basic understanding of what animals what kind of care
New Key Vocabulary:
● Learning about different farm animals: Farm animals are animals that are kept and
raised for agricultural purposes. They also include a large variety of different animals
such as chickens,cows, pigs etc.
Content/Facts:
● There are 52,000 farms and 7.3 acres of farmland in Pa and the majority of the animals
are for agricultural purposes.
● Introduction/Activating/Launch Strategies:
● The teacher will give students a minute to get ready to start science class for the day
● The teacher will introduce the new topic on what the different pa farm animals are
● The teacher will then pull up the power point for first grade on the different farm
animals.
● The teacher will then run through the powerpoint and ask the students if they have any
questions.
The teacher will then have the whole class a complete sentence fact sheet on Pa farm
animals.
Development/Teaching Approaches
● The teacher will do an assessment on habitats and animals to see what the students
know based off of prior knowledge.
● The teacher will then start powerpoint and read through with asking students engaging
questions throughout the power point such as:
● Does anyone know the different farm animals that we typically have
● Does anyone know some food that farm animals may eat
● What is a farm animal?
- How many farm animals do you think the state of pa has?
- Does anyone know how many farms we have
● Once the teacher is done explaining and talking about the different farm
animals.
● The teacher will then have the paper pacers pass out the Complete
sentence fact sheet on pa farm animals packet The teacher will then
explain the directions of the activity
● The teacher will then do the activity as a whole group
● Once the class is done doing the activity the first grade class will do a
movement break.
Closure/Summarizing Strategies:
● Allowing students time to do the Complete sentence fact sheet on pa farm animals
● Allowing students time to ask questions about the different farm animals
● Allowing students time to ask about the different pa farm animals in the area
Accommodations/Differentiation
● Extra time to allow students to do the complete sentence fact sheet on pa farm animals
Materials and Resources:
● Power point
● smart board
● Complete sentence fact sheet on pa farm animals packet
● COL Farm Animals Activity Booklet 2020.pdf
● Movement break
● https://youtu.be/HpOe8lngp_o
Reflective Response:
Report of Student Learning Target/Objectives Proficiency Levels
Remediation Plan (if applicable)
Personal Reflection Questions
With this lesson Things that I would change is break it into more days then just two
because I feel like the pacing of the lesson was rushed and there was a lot of content that was
displayed about the different farm animals. As well as there were parts of the packet for the
students that involved cutting and pasting so the time management took a while so I would
definitely put on a timer for them to be able to stay on track. But time management for sure
needs to be worked on and not trying to force so much content into one day. I should also add a
video on the different farm animals so they can see what they really look like in their natural
environment.
Additional reflection/thoughts
