Name: _______Abby Walters_____________ ECS 3150-001

Lesson Plan

Date: 3/30/16 Grade Level/Content Area/Time Period (allotted time): 2nd Grade Science

Lesson Title: Rock Hounds

Unit/Theme: Earth Science

CCSS: Science

Standard 2: Earth and Space Science. Students will gain an understanding of Earth and Space Science
through the study of earth materials, celestial movement, and weather.
Objective 1: Describe the characteristics of different rocks

CCSS: Language Standard

Standard 4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multi-meaning words and phrases bases
on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibility from a range of strategies.

a. Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or
phrase.

b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word
(e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph).

ELD Standard 4: The Language of Science

Language Domain: Listening, Speaking and Reading

Content Objective:

Students will be able to describe the characteristics of different rocks as well as explain how
smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of larger rocks, describe rocks in terms of
their parts (e.g. crystals, grains, cement), and sort rocks based upon color, hardness, texture,
layering, particle size and type (i.e. igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary).

Language Objective(s): to include the 3 parts (verb, content area topic, supports)

Level 1: Students will be able to match pictures of certain rocks with their proper type, using the
informational text as a reference.

Level 2: Students will be able to identify examples of different types of rocks from real world experiences
observing rocks.

Level 3: Students will be able to categorize characteristics of rocks and put them into groups based on
their characteristics.
Name: _______Abby Walters_____________ ECS 3150-001

Level 4: Students will be able to discuss important differences between different types of rocks.

Level 5: Students will be able to apply learned information/vocabulary words to descriptions of different
types of rocks during class observation.

Key Vocabulary Required Materials/Resources/Technology

• Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
 Crystals
 Grains • colored sand and glue
 Cement • assorted rocks
 Igneous
 Metamorphic • classifying grid
 Sedimentary
• hand lenses

Procedures/Timeline:
Procedures (Progression of Instruction) Time Adaptations for EL
Students
Intended Learning Outcomes

1. Understand and use basic concepts and skills.

Process Skills

Observation, description, classification, segmentation and blending

Instructional Procedures:
• Invitation to Learn- ask students, “What is sand?”
Activity/Content:
1.Students will orally
Teacher will preteach vocabulary words:
answer the question
 Crystals- anything congealed by freezing, such as ice “what is sand?”
 Grains- an individual crystal
 Igneous- rock type that is formed through cooling and 2. Teacher will
solidification of magma or lava. provide visual
 Metamorphic- rock that was one form of rock but changed to descriptions of each
another because of heat or pressure. word (pictures,
 Sedimentary- rock that was formed through the deposition and diagrams and/or
solidification of sediment transported by water, ice and wind. video)

Instructional Procedures 3. All students will

• Look at sand with hand lenses. Help students discover that sand is a use observation to
lot of itty-bitty rocks. learn what they can
Name: _______Abby Walters_____________ ECS 3150-001

Procedures (Progression of Instruction) Time Adaptations for EL

Students
• Read Everybody Needs a Rock. Discuss some of the rock attributes from the sand.
presented (e.g., size, color, shape, and texture).
4. Students will listen
• Select a rock and study it. Have students help describe it. Introduce as the teacher reads
and discuss other rock attributes such as hardness, patterns, the book.
crystals, etc. Complete the description of the rock.
5. Level 2: Identify
• Place students into small groups of three or four. Have them select a examples of what
rock, and then describe and classify their rocks. Write down different
the descriptions and pool all the rocks together again. characteristics can be
found.
• Have groups move to a new group location. Students should choose Level 4: Describe and
a description and try to find the rock it goes with. classify the rocks into
categories.

Plans for integrating diversity/social justice/multicultural themes and/or

objectives:

Include words for different types of rocks in another language.

Talk about rock formations in other parts of the world and the cultures of these
places.

Plans for involving students’ families and communities:

Look for rocks at home and practice describing their attributes.

Assessment Plans (How will you check that students have mastered the
lesson’s objectives?):

Students will be able to describe rocks using appropriate terminology.

Reflection (Teacher Notes & How will this lesson work to enhance the
learning of the students?):
Name: _______Abby Walters_____________ ECS 3150-001

This lesson will enhance the learning of students by giving them physical substances to observe and
describe rather than just learning through text and lecture. I think students will be highly involved and
interested in this lesson.