Lesson Plans
The following five lesson plans I designed and implement during my student teaching. My student teaching took place at Mt. View Elementary in Corvallis, Oregon. The school is considered rural. I student taught at Mt.View Elementary from March 2011 to June 2012.
Second Grade Lesson Plans
The first nine months I students taught in a second grade class.
During that time I designed a mini work sample of three lessons on map skills and a full teacher’s work sample with ten lesson on geometry. All the lesson were linked to an Oregon Common Core Standard.
Treasure Map
This is a 2nd grade social studies lesson in which students help create a large classroom map, while learning:
- the key features of a map: map key, symbols, title
- how to read a map
- identifying symbols on a map
The Greedy Triangle
This is a second grade geometry lesson in which students learn how to identify polygons by their number of sides.
Sorting Quadrilaterals
This is a second grade geometry lesson that focuses on recognizing quadrilaterals by their number of sides and number of right angles.
Quilt Block Symmetry
In this second grade geometry lesson students explore symmetry by creating quilt blocks and identify how many lines of symmetry their quilt block has. The students then place their quilt block on a classroom floor chart to discuss their findings.
Fifth Grade Lesson Plans
The last part of my students teaching was in a fourth/fifth grade blended classroom.
During my student teaching I designed and implemented a full teacher’s work sample with ten lessons on variables. All of the lessons were linked to the fifth grade Oregon scientific inquiry standards.
Introduction to Pendulums 
In this lesson students build and explore simple pendulums in order to identify variables that might change the the number of cycles their pendulum will complete in 15 seconds.
Lifeboats: Testing the Variable of Capacity
In this lesson students are assigned lifeboats of differentcapacities in order to identify how the capacity of the lifeboat effects the number of pennies the lifeboat can hold before it sinks.
Lauren Nixon 