Early Childhood Technology Literacy Grant Lesson Plans Title of Lesson: Farm Word Wall Grade: Kindergarten Unit(s): Science: Living Things (Insights Hands-on Inquiry Science, EDC) ..........Reading: Letter and word recognition Developed by: Gloria Carr, Sally K. Ride Elementary School Edited by: Bonny Chambers Concepts and Outcomes: Students will: identify items that were seen on a farm field trip identify items as living or non-living match pictures to words. Materials: Computer Kid Pix Farm Template created in Kid Pix Opening Set: This lesson is a follow up to a field trip that we took to Homestead Farm where we saw baby animals, planted seeds and seedlings, and took a hayride to see strawberry plants growing. Discuss the trip and name things we saw on the trip. Talk about each item and discuss whether it was living or non-living. Lesson Design: Create a classroom word wall using the words of the items they saw. Have some students make word cards for the word wall. Have other students make pictures to go on the word wall next to the word. Play a matching game with the student created words and pictures. With the computer connected to the TV or other projection device, show the students the farm template and model using the moving van and magnet to match the pictures and words. In small groups, have students work at the computer using the Kid Pix farm template to match the pictures to the word. They will have to use the moving van and magnet to move the picture under the correct word. Synthesis and Conclusion: Use the student made word wall and compare it to our computer template for self and group checking to see if the words are correctly matched. Then, determine which words on our wall were not on the template. Students work in pairs to complete the template independently during work stations. Evaluation and Assessment: Were students able to correctly name items seen on the farm and label them as living or non-living? Were students able to correctly match pictures to words? Home/School Connection: Print a copy of the template and let students take it home to cut and create a matching game to play with their parents. Extensions: Using Kid Pix tools, students can create their own pictures and words of things they saw on the farm that were not on our word wall and template. Students could categorize the items on the template into living and non-living things.