Designing instruction/teaching

When trying to design my lesson I wanted to incorporate songs, visuals, and get students moving/ participating in the lesson. Kindergarten students have a lot of energy, and I wanted to design a lesson that will allow students use that energy. Instead of designing a lesson where students just sit, I wanted to get them moving and discussing the topic as a class, and with the teacher.

I designed my lesson in a manner that the educator can facilitate the students learning by encouraging them to talk (whisper) to their partners as they point to their correlated body part of each five senses. When teaching the goal is to not only engage students, but to also encourage them to discuss what they know about their five senses. When I was teaching this lesson to the class, I tried to demonstrate how the instructor would encourage students to talk (whisper) during the lesson as students pointed to the correlated body function. For example, I asked the students "What part of our body do you guys think lets us see? " Students were encouraged to point to their eyes, once students were all pointing at their eyes, They were encouraged to turn to the person next to them and tell them "I see you," and do that to the people siting to their left and right. By allowing students to talk, it makes them feel part of the lesson, they are learning though active participation, and social participation.

When teaching this lesson, my goal was guide students in there learning. By guiding students in their learning, they are learning though discovery. The whole point of using the cookie, was to let students have a visual, an object they can discuss, and learn by discovering it( how does it taste, how does it look, how does it feel, and how does it smell). I designed my lesson in a manner that students are encouraged to use their energy by getting students actively evolved in the lesson; this was done by dancing to the song, point to their five senses, and by allowing students to whisper to their partners.  It's important for me not to have students sit for hours, while they are being instructed. I believe students need to be part of their learning and need to have fun. Students should have active activities that will help them listen and understand the lesson better. I hope that while teaching my lesson, that I allowed students to be part of the lesson and guided them towards the learning of the five senses by getting them evolved, and by encouraging students to dance, point, and whisper to their classmates.


 The learning goal for this lesson is for students to gain a better understanding of their five senses, and to understand what their fives senses are. The learning goals for this lesson is to engage students in their learning through different activities and discussions that will enhance students knowledge. Each activity that occurs during the lesson helps students gain a better understanding of their fives, because each activity is build on and relies on students senses.During the being of the five senses lesson, I planned to introduce students to the topic of the five senses by allows students to hear a song that encourages students to dance as a they point to each of their five senses. The students cookie activity will allow students to use each of their five senses to gain a better understanding of what each sense allows us to do. For example, during this activity students were encourage to smell their cookies and were ask to describe the smell, as well as, the body function that allows them to smell. As the educator teaches the lesson, students will have a power-point presentation that will provide visuals for them to help guide and aid students to need and learn through visuals. Each activity assigned with this lesson promotes students to gain a better understanding on the subject of the five senses.

 During this lesson students will be participating activity and socially to enhance their learning on the five senses. Students will be asked several questions during the lesson that will allow the educator to observe if students are accurately grasping the lesson. This lesson provides students with the opportunity to talk and whisper to their partners, however, students will not and cannot talk to their partners unless advised to by their instructor. Discipline will be addressed during the lesson, and students will be informed what will be required of them to do for each activity.

The lessons in this unit are both logically organized and are very useful in moving students toward achieving the learning goals. This lesson provides students with different activities that are organized in sequence of the lesson. For example, students will be introduced to the lesson with a song, where students may sing and dance. Secondly, the lesson will help build on the knowledge of the five senses, as students have been introduced to the five senses through a song. At this point the instructor will inform students that they have heard  a song about the five senses and next we will discuss them individually.  During each of the five senses, students will have a power-point visual,and students will be asked to use their cookie (manipulative) to complete each of the five senses. I have organized this lesson to keep students engaged, and to encourage them to have fun as they participate in the learning of their five senses.

The lesson I have design allows students to learn through the discovery method. This lesson provides students with instruction as they are guided through each of the five senses. This lesson consists of activities, discussions, and other resources that all contribute to the learning of students five senses. Kindergarten students need lesson that will help them learn activity, social, and also provide instructional assistance along the way. I designed my lesson to suit the need to kindergarten students to help support students learning, and allow them to have an enjoyable learning experience. 

 This lesson has been designed to assess students by observation (observing student during the lesson), as well as by assessing students independently (fun-sheet- using clip art). By assessing students during the lesson, the instructor can view the students who are not grasping the lesson, and may provide additional support. By assessing students during the lesson, the instructor can correct students misunderstandings, and can help them gain a better understanding of the lesson before students complete their independent assessment (fun-sheet).

When incorporating technology into this lesson, it was important to incorporate technology that would be age appropriate for kindergarten students. In this lesson I incorporated the use of clip art software, to introduce students to computers.  During this lesson students will complete a "Fun-sheet" on clipart, where students are to copy-paste (drag) the appropriate body part to the correlated body function. This task is simple enough for kindergarten students to complete as they are first being introduced to computer software. Students will first be informed how to use clip-art, and the educator will demonstrate what they are to complete on Microsoft word.  The technology that was during this lesson was a power-point, audio (song), and Microsoft word/ clip art.