I am student teaching and i need a lesson ideas for second grade?

Question

I have to do my lesson on the lifecycyle of the butterfly or the frog. I am not sure how i can do a math lesson involving multiplication or three digit subtraction while incorporating one of the lifecycles.

Answer 1

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For my project, I did lessons on the lifecycle of the butterfly. These lessons were based on Strand II(Life Science): Understanding the properties, structure, and processes of living things and the interdependence of living things and their environments, Benchmark II K-4: Know that living things have similarities and differences and that living things change over time.

The lessons that I did were The Butterfly Lifecycle mobile, The Lifecycle of the Butterfly Alphabet, The Lifecycle of the Butterfly Math lesson and Make your own symmetrical Butterfly.

The Butterfly Lifecycle mobile is the lesson that I tiered. The first one was the lifecycle mobile just drawn out and the children had to put the lifecycles in the right stages, the second level was drawing their own animals and knowing the different stages and writing them on the back of the stage( the students will have the diagram in front of them to read and if needed they can go back to the info to write down) and the third is the lifecycle mobile without any information in which the students are needed to write down the definition of the stages and draw the pictures on their own without any extra help unless necessary.

The next lesson that I did for the students was the math lesson. In this lesson, the students had many butterfly cutouts and 10 bowls that were shaped like a leaf. In this, the students had to put a certain number of butterflies in each bowl and they learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

The next lesson was the butterfly alphabet lesson. In this the students have to think of a word to go with each letter of the alphabet which helps them to not only learn about the lifecycle of a butterfly, but to also learn new vocabulary and the words meaning.

The last lesson that I have is a lesson on symmetry, which is an extension that I thought of. In this, the students have to cut out a drawing of a butterfly color it, paste a Popsicle stick underneath it in the middle and then put pennies on each of the wings tip to learn about balance(symmetry) which can also lead to many more lessons for children to learn.

This lesson planning was very fun and a good practice. There are so many things that you have to consider before the lesson is actually thought through

Don't forget to read Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Good Luck....

Answer 2

Plenty of free lesson plans at http://school.discovery.com - a great site and free!

www.clrn.org helps you with technology-based lessons for the computer lab.

and you can get ideas using (no matter what state you are in)

the California state frameworks. "Standards" are the ideas students are to master; "frameworks" are teaching suggestions on how to deliver that content to students.

Here is the link to the 3rd grade math standards:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/mthgrade3.asp

and here is the link to the 3rd prade frameworks:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/documents/math-ch3-k-7.pdf

Also, try www.educationworld.com - I have included the link to math lessons here:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/math.shtml

Holler if you need anything else.

Answer 3

Did you try Edhelper? Google elementary school lesson plans for the topic and subject that you will teach.

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Answer 5

Trying using enchantedlearning.com and I'm pretty sure you will find some ideas there.Good luck!