What makes us grow lesson plan....?

Question

I have to come up with a lesson plan....

Develop a lesson plan for a unit on "what Make Us Grow?" Include objectives, time length, materials, learning activities, measures for evaluation, and any teacher resource information.

I'm not sure exactly what direction to go with this. Art project? Story? Does anyone have any suggestions? It has to be for a class of 3-6 year olds...

Answer 1

Find the state curriculum online.  Find out what concepts the students need to master in the unit.  Also, don't forget to incorporate prior knowledge.  If this is for a demo lesson, find out what their last unit was.  Then incorporate some of that into the unit.

Answer 2

If I were doing this project, I would do my best to make this across the curriculum (so you incorporate different curriculums and teachings).  

'What Makes Us Grow'?...I could do a flower theme and discuss the similarities and differences between ourselves and plants, then I could incorporate materials for supply and demand and where things are grown (like we eat banana's which grow on trees, but if we look outside why don't we see them everywhere?)

You could incorporate a type of song/dance for movement and song, and if you wanted to go into art the students could make paper masks that are flowers.  

As this was all going on I would have small cups w/ soil and have the students plant seeds and water them.  Oh, the book 'Diary of A Worm' could be incorporated in this as well, which would hit your reading/spelling/language concepts.

I would say you could do this lesson anywhere between a couple days/hours to an entire week.  

Objectives..ugh I hate those the most...The student will be able to identify the difference between themselves and things that grow from a ground.  The student will be able to locate different origins of fruit and vegetables.

As I'm rereading this...I would say everything I've mentioned would be for your 'unit' and you would just take 1 of the ideas above and create a simple lesson plan from that.  Technically you could do many lesson plans to cover each idea for each project of this unit, but for a basic example of one, you would just choose one idea that would probably last for that specific hour (ie reading time) or if you were doing it for that entire week then that would be your plans for a week of reading.