2nd Grade Lesson Plans

¶ … Summer Bucket List

Concept/topic: This lesson plan will focus on allowing students to design their wish list or "Summer Bucket list." It will allow for sharing by students reading aloud their Summer Bucket lists. It also promotes writing and reading as students will be asked to proofread what they wrote as well as think of fun ideas to add for their Summer Bucket list.

Lesson goals/objectives:

Objectives are to ask questions of how they would want the activities on their Summer Bucket lists to be performed, the reasons behind them, who they may want with them.

Practicing oral delivery of information from reading aloud in class.

Participation with their peers as they may ask and share with other students their own experiences and ideas when selected students read aloud.

d. Arizona State Standards (CCSS) (Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. (2.RL.1)) (Azed.gov, 2015).

e. Required materials: Pencils, blank pieces of paper, and some magazines/picture books to inspire students to think of things to add to their Summer Bucket list.

f. Introduction/anticipatory set: Students will be shown the definition of Summer Bucket lists and things that may be included in Summer Bucket list along with expectations for assignment and how it will be graded.

g. Step-by-step procedures

1. Discussion of what is a Summer Bucket list: 5 min.

2. Slide show of example Summer Bucket list: 5 min.

3. Writing Summer Bucket lists: 15 minutes.

4. Sharing Summer Bucket lists: 15-20 minutes

5. Questions: 5-15 minutes.

h. Assessment: Students will be graded on length of list; a minimum of ten items will be required. They will also be graded on spelling and grammar and level of participation. The more students ask questions and write notes on what other students discuss, the higher their grades will be for the project.

i. Technology integration: Students will view a quick slide show on a projector of instructor's example Summer Bucket list, showing pictures of a vacation place, exotic foods, and fun activities.

j. Adaptations and extensions: It can be adapted to suit all grades and even trip locations. For example a Summer Bucket list while on a trip to a museum. Lists can also be extended by adding experiences after students finished sharing their own Summer Bucket lists.

a. Lesson title: "Poetry Club"

b. Concept/topic: Students are invited to write poems about anything that comes to mind, share, and read each other's work. Students will not only evaluate other's work, but also modify their own.

c. Lesson goals/objectives: The objective is to teach children how to read poetry and teaching them basic poetry writing concepts like alliteration, rhymes, and similes. The Poetry Club promotes communication between students as well as self-evaluation and peer evaluation.

d. Arizona State Standards (CCSS): Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. (2.RL.4) (Azed.gov, 2015).

e. Required materials: Pen and paper for students and a laptop and projector for teachers.

f. Introduction/anticipatory set: Students will be introduced to the poetry club and given instructions on how to participate in the poetry club. The instructor will explain some core concepts like alliteration and similes and explain common forms of poems like rhyming poems and repetition.

g. Step-by-step procedures

1. Students will be given an introduction on a projector of poems and the poetry club along with any additional instruction. 15 min.

2. Students will begin writing their poems, maximum 5 lines. 10-15 minutes.

3. Students will be grouped in groups of four. 1-2 minutes.

4. Students will participate, reading each other's poems. 5-10 minutes

5. Students will be given an opportunity to give feedback and also change their poems. 10-15 minutes.

h. Assessment: Students will be evaluating each other's work, as well as their own. After reading their peer's work, then can then use what they've read to apply it to their own work. Students will take the feedback they receive on their work, and the work they read from other students and apply it to their work.

i. Technology integration: A projector will be used to explain the assignment and show examples of poems.

j. Adaptations and extensions: It can become a take home assignment or students may be given the option of adding pictures or colors, much like a collage and then communicate why they made these choices.

a. Lesson title: "Butterfly Unit -- Life Cycle Sequencing"

b. Concept/topic: This lesson plan will briefly explore the life cycle of a butterfly. Students will have opportunities to count, to identify pictures of food and stages of growth and share their thoughts on the entire life cycle. At the end, they draw their own butterfly.

c. Lesson goals/objectives: To identify butterfly growth stages, what they eat and how they transform.

d. Arizona State Standards (CCSS): Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. (2.RL.7) (Azed.gov, 2015).

e. Required materials: Pen and Paper, Pencils, Crayons, Safety Scissors, and Stick Glue, projector and laptop will be used by instructor.

f. Introduction/anticipatory set: The introduction will focus on the instruction for the assignment- what a butterfly is, as well as how it becomes a butterfly from caterpillar to pupa to butterfly. Pictures will help show the different kinds of caterpillars and their various transformation into butterflies.