Lesson Plan for Language Arts

Name: David L Tetterton
Title: Media for Kindergarten
Summary:   Students will learn about the different types of media available that can be used to tell a story, demonstrate an object, or explain an interest.
Primary Core Objective: Standard 1 Oral Language - Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.   Objective 2 Develop language through viewing media and presenting. a.         View a variety of media presentations attentively. b.        Use a variety of formats (e.g., show and tell, drama, sharing of books) in presenting with various forms of media
Materials Used by the Teacher:   ·       PC with overhead projection ·       White/Chalk board ·       Chalk/markers for board ·       Picture presentation ·       Magazines ·       Newspaper ·       Radio	Materials Used by the Students:   ·       Pencils, pens, crayons ·       PCs if available ·       Old magazines ·       Objects or items brought from home for show and tell.
Technologies Used by the Teacher:   ·       Magazines ·       PCs ·       Projection equipment	Technologies Used by the Students:   ·       Magazines ·       PCs
Intended Learning Outcomes:   ·       At the end of the class, the students will give a presentation with an object brought from home.  ·       The students will also use the PC and other items to demonstrate other ways to make a presentation that will be shown to the class.
Instructional Procedures:   Explain to the class that today we will learn about different types of media. Ask:  Does anyone know what media is? Explain media. Show video clip from Sesame Street.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM9RtCCXrsw Ask students what did they learn from the video. Explain that this is a form of media.  Other forms of media are movies, radio shows, TV programs, newspapers, magazines and storytelling. Have students get magazines and find something that they like in it and tell the other students about it.  Explain that this is a form of media. Show newspaper and read a small article from the paper to the students.  Tell them that is also a form of media. Show the radio and explain that many of them listen to the radio in their cars with their parents.  Another form of media is the radio. Show the pictures of different types of media. Show video of children making a newspaper. http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=7174&title=Class_Newspaper_Writing Ask students to go to PC and we can make our own newspaper. Have students get out their items that they brought from home for sharing time.  Explain that as they tell their stories, they are doing media.
Extensions: As each student finishes his/her sharing time, let them join in listening what the other students have to share.
Assessment Plan: Give the students a handout with pictures of different types of media and other pictures and have them circle the pictures that are media.  Ask the students what they learned in class today.  As students finish the assessment, allow the students to use the computers in the classroom in groups to start creating a newspaper, magazine or something else that could be used to demonstrate their knowledge of different types of media.