Saturday, November 17, 2007

Lesson Plan: Alice’s Wonderland Adventurous In and Out the Classroom!




Title of Lesson: Alice’s Wonderland Adventurous In and Out the Classroom!

Grade Level: 1rst Grade

Class Time: One whole day

Concepts: Concept Standard #1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Content Standard #2: Using knowledge of structures and functions.
Content Standard #3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

Georgia Standards: Mathematics
M1M1. Student will compare and/or order the length, weight, or capacity of tow or more objects by using direct comparison or a nonstandard unit.

Language Arts
ELA1R2 The student demonstrates the ability to identify and orally manipulate words and individual sounds within those spoken words.

Science
S1L1 G. Compare a fairy tale story about an animal and a science story of an animal, Tell how they are similar and how they are different.


Objective: The students in this first grade class will understand the adventures of Alice by building their understanding of Science, Language Arts, and Math literacy by going to a museum and using manipulatives to complete the field trip booklet with 90% accuracy.


Motivation: The teacher will show a picture of Alice and ask who was she, and what did she do? The teacher and students will orally review the story.


Vocabulary: Measurement Weight
Croquet Onomatopoeia
Length Height
Capacity



Instructional Strategies:
a. The teacher will tell the students that they will be going on field trip to help build their knowledge on Science, Language Arts, and Math literacy.
b. Before the teacher and students depart for the field trip they review some Math and Science terms along with the story of Alice in Wonderland.
c. Next the teacher discusses the field trip booklet and how the students can work on the booklet at the museum, during lunch time, and on the bus, and the last 20 minutes of class. The booklet will be due at the end of the day.
d. The teacher will read a poem, “The Lobster-Quadrille”, by Lewis Carroll.
e. After the students have finish listing to the poem, they will draw a picture to illustrate The Lobster-Quadrille.
f. The teacher will tell the student, that just as they use their imagination to draw that picture, they will use their imagination at the museum.
g. The teacher and student will depart to the museum.
h. After the teacher and students has arrived back to the classroom, the student will have 20 minutes to finish their booklet before leaving for the day.

Field Trip Information:

During the field trip, children will make exciting discoveries that will engage them in an exploration of learning. Children will be learning in the subject areas of Art, Math, Language Arts and Science. They will go through some of same challenges like in Alice in her Wonderland. Students will enter the museum’s wonderland at the same place Alice’s dream adventure begins. They crawl through a rabbit hole and fall through the earth. They will play with meaning of words, learn about measurements. The will discover special illusions and surprises. Next, they will create a mad tea party, manipulate a crazy clock, and end the tour with playing a game of croquet where balls in motion are a surprise.

Date of Field Trip: November 20, 2007
Time: 9:45 am -1:00 pm
Chaperones: 1 chaperone per every 5 children.
Price: Student discount rate is $6.50 with one free chaperone for every five students. Additional adults pay the full price of $11.00. The museum charges sales tax unless a tax exemption form (ST-5 or Letter of Authorization) is submitted prior to visit.
Contact Info: Tawana Francisco, Education CoordinatorPhone: 404-527-5967Email: mailto:beth.thomsen@imagineit-cma.org

Parking:
Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta275 Centennial Park Drive NWAtlanta, GA 30313-1827(corner of Baker St. and CentennialOlympic Park Dr.)

Modifications: For modifications the teacher can assist students where needed.

Assessment: Students will have to show good behavior and listing instructions on the field trip and complete their field trip booklet.


Materials/Supplies:
-Field trip booklet -Crayons
-Pencil


Closing Statement: The teacher will end the lesson with an oral review of the things that the students observe and learned at the museum.

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