Kindergarten-Hibernation Lesson (Animals Prepare For Winter)

Lesson Plan: Animals Prepare for Winter
Teacher: Kaitlin Basler Date: November 17nd , 2010

Activity: Animals Prepare for Winter/Hibernation Grade: Kindergarten
Activity Purpose:
 What animals do to get ready for winter, what animals hibernate and why; what the
environment looks like for animals to know its time.
Learning’s/Outcomes:
 Actively listen to book read to them
 Understand and define hibernation
 To know names of some hibernating animals
 To learn the environmental indicators signalling an animal’s need to hibernate
 Knowledge of things animals do to prepare for hibernation.
Prerequisite Student Learnings:

 Familiarity with animals
Instruction Strategies:
Direct Instruction: Structured overview
Interactive: Discussion, storybook, charts, visuals
Independent: Coloring pictures independently
Cross Curricula Competencies:

 Developing Thinking: Building on what they already know, engaged in creative thinking.
 Developing Social Responsibility: use reasoning processes
 Develop Literacies: Relate, explore and express in using various literacies
Equipment:
 Story: Little Fern’s First Winter
 Chart and animal pictures and information
 Coloring sheet for students
 Crayons
 Extra books and coloring bear sheet
Advanced Preparation:
 Prepare questions to ask students
 Create animal picture cards
 Create habitat cards of where animals hibernate
 Create Animals that Hibernate coloring page
Assessment:
 Observations: Students ability to participate in group discussion.
 Students demonstrate an understanding of hibernation and animals.
Adaptive Dimension:
 Have related books for students to look at if they finish their picture before others.
 Procedure: Student Engagement/Classroom
 SET: Management Strategies
 Have students gather together on floor  Ask students for their attention.
in reading area.  Remind students that if they have any
 Welcome students by asking questions questions or comments they can put
such as how are you all enjoying this their hand up and I will call upon them.
winter weather we are having?
 Ask students “what are some things  Allow students time to think and
that we do to prepare for winter? respond
Then ask “what are some things you
think animals might do to prepare
for winter?” (Discuss)  Give students time to answer their
 Inform students that “first I have a thoughts and opinions.
story for you all.” Introduce
story(Little Fern’s First Winter). (Ask
questions as you go through story and  Remind students that if they have any
discuss aspects of what they see). questions or comments to wait until the
 Ask student if they have “ever end of the story unless I ask them
wondered what it would be like to specifically.
sleep all winter long!”
 Discuss with students that some
animals do.
 Ask students if they “know of any
animals that do sleep all winter
long”.
 Tell students that “there is a special
word we use to describe when these  Remind students that only those quiet
animals sleep all winter. This word is with their hands up nicely will be
ball, HIBERNATION. The animals chose.
go into rest and deep sleep until
winter is over. Does anybody know
the name of the season after winter
when the animals would wake up”.
 Tell students that “we are going to
look at some of these animals, where
they sleep all winter and how they get
ready for it.”
 DEVELOPMENT:
 Tell students that “animals like bears,
gophers,bats, frogs, snakes and  Give students the opportunity to ask
ladybugs find places to go during the questions and brainstorm.
winter.”
 Show students prepared animal pictures
and the picture of where each go when
they hibernate.
 (EXTRA-depending on how discussion
is going/time frame) Tell students that
“some animals prepare for winter by  Check for understanding by having
growing a thick coat of fur. Some of students repeat back the directions.
these animals are: white tailed jack  Students who are sitting quietly will be
rabbits, weasels and mice.” given their picture to begin.
 Ask students “how they think animals  Ask students to quietly go to their seats
might know it`s time to get and begin.
ready(changes in the environment)
and what they might do to get
ready.”
 Show students the handout (of the chart
completed) that you want them to color.
Explain what they must do.
 If students complete it early they can
color the picture of the bear or look at
extra books about hibernation.
 CLOSURE:
 Ask students if they have any
questions.
 Ask students what they learned today.

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Lesson Plan: Animals Prepare for Winter

Teacher: Kaitlin Basler Date: November 17nd , 2010

Prerequisite Student Learnings:

Cross Curricula Competencies:

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