D690 /C732 Elementary Disciplinary Literacy TASK 1
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Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template
General Information
Lesson Title: What Living Things Need to Survive
Subject(s): Science & Reading
Grade/Level/Setting: Kindergarten
Prerequisite Skills/Prior Knowledge:
What do your students already know or what do they need to know about the selected topic to successfully
participate in the lesson?
Students will need to have knowledge of living things, humans, plants and
animals. Students must understand that living things need certain things to
survive.
Students will know how to read
, Standards and Objectives
State/National Academic Standard(s):
Standard K.R.5: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (RL &
RI)
Standard K.2.2
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about patterns in the relationships between the
needs of different living things (plants and animals, including humans) and the places they live.
Emphasize that living things need water, air, and resources and that they live in places that have the
things they need. Examples could include investigating plants grown in various locations and
comparing the results or comparing animals with the places they live. (LS2.B, ESS3.A)
Learning Objective(s):
Identify what students will accomplish by the end of the lesson; needs to align with the state or Common Core State
Standards and needs to be measurable (condition, behavior, and criterion).
Given a worksheet students will match each picture of a living thing to what it needs
to survive.
Students will be able to read text about living things as a class and will be able to
ask and answer questions about it with 90% accuracy.
Materials Technology
PASSED! NEW VERSION 2025 catalog Western
Governors University
Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template
General Information
Lesson Title: What Living Things Need to Survive
Subject(s): Science & Reading
Grade/Level/Setting: Kindergarten
Prerequisite Skills/Prior Knowledge:
What do your students already know or what do they need to know about the selected topic to successfully
participate in the lesson?
Students will need to have knowledge of living things, humans, plants and
animals. Students must understand that living things need certain things to
survive.
Students will know how to read
, Standards and Objectives
State/National Academic Standard(s):
Standard K.R.5: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (RL &
RI)
Standard K.2.2
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about patterns in the relationships between the
needs of different living things (plants and animals, including humans) and the places they live.
Emphasize that living things need water, air, and resources and that they live in places that have the
things they need. Examples could include investigating plants grown in various locations and
comparing the results or comparing animals with the places they live. (LS2.B, ESS3.A)
Learning Objective(s):
Identify what students will accomplish by the end of the lesson; needs to align with the state or Common Core State
Standards and needs to be measurable (condition, behavior, and criterion).
Given a worksheet students will match each picture of a living thing to what it needs
to survive.
Students will be able to read text about living things as a class and will be able to
ask and answer questions about it with 90% accuracy.
Materials Technology
