Meghan Mitchell SPA 496 Checkpoint B Mini-Lesson1

Title Animals of the Nicaraguan Rainforest

Standards NYS Standards:Student will be able to use another language other than English. Student will develop cross cultural skills and understanding. National Standards:Communication 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings andemotions, and exchange opinions.Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.Culture:Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.Connections: Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.

Learning Objectives 1. Students will describe what they already know about rain-forests and I will write it on the board.

2. Students will learn the new rainforest vocabulary that I will be introducing and be given a list.

3. Students will be able to construct their own sentences with partners using the new vocabulary at 80% accuracy.

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Acceptable Evidence of Knowledge 1. Guided Activity: Students will share with their classmates their prior knowledge of the rainforest. They will pair up and do a pair-share.

2. Practice: Students will practice the vocabulary by repeating the new words after being cued.

3. Guided Practice: Students will listen to a passage and then read silently and answer the questions

4. Guided Practice: Students will watch a video and answer questions.

5. Practice: Students will be able to construct the rainforest that they would like to visit.

6. Final: Students will complete 2 post it notes with sentences of 2 things they learned from the lesson.

Procedure 1. First students will do a pair-share activity. With their partner they will share what they know about rain forests and what they want to know. Then they will share 2 things they hope to learn in English or Spanish. (Warm-up 2mins)

2. Students will complete a worksheet in Spanish about sloths. First I will read aloud the passage and then they will read silently to themselves and then answer the questions. We will then go over the answers. (5 mins)

3. I will present the new vocabulary to the students. I will show them the flashcard with the image of the word and then show them the word. I will do this one time and then ask them to repeat after me. (5 mins)

4. I will show the students a video and they will have a list of things they will look for based on the new vocabulary. (5mins)

5. Students will then construct a picture of the rainforest they will include what they want to see if they were to visit the rainforest. (3mins)

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Assessment/ Evidence I will use formative assessment tools; I will walk around and check for progress while the students are completing the activity. My closure is another form of evidence because I will require the students to put their names on the post-it note.

Closure As a closure the students will be given two post-it notes and they will be instructed to write down to things that they learned during the lesson. Ex: “El perezoso vive en centro america.”

Accommodations/ Support Staff I will be walking around and checking on the students and assisting when needed.

Resources • Sloth worksheet• Vocabulary flashcards• Projector for rainforest video • Paper to draw rainforest of choice

Time Required The lesson will take around 20 minutes to complete.

Reflection After the lesson I will check over the post-it notes and see what the students learned. If they did not retain the information I will make sure to review and reteach where needed.