Name: Ekiyah Fulton
School/Mentor Teacher: Cyattvillle Elementary
Grade Level: Pre-K
Subject Areas: Language Arts, Technology, Art
Date Taught:
Total Duration of Lesson: 45 minutes

Title of Lesson:
Learning With Paint And Literature

Primary Learning Outcomes:
The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:
A. With teacher guidance, student will be able to use the mouse while operating the computer
B.  Student will be able to discuss questions about the literature story.
C. With teacher guidance, student will be able to develop a picture using a drawing program on the computer.

Questions students should be able to answer after completing this lesson.
A. Show me and tell me about how you used the mouse when you worked the computer.
B.  Critical Thinking Questions related to the literature book: 1. What is your favortie food and why?  2. Why is it important for you to eat nutrious foods? (This should be the critical thinking questions in Step 2 of your lesson plan.)
C. Describe how you made your picture on the computer.
 

Related QCC Standards:
A. Grade: K
Technology Integration
Strand: Basic Skills
5 Topic: Basic Skills
Standard: Operates basic technology tools and applications.

B. Grade: K
Language Arts
Strand: Written Communication
39 Topic: Literature
Standard: Responds to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about literature.

C. Grade: K
Fine Arts
Strand: Visual Arts
3 Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks.  
 
Materials and Equipment:
   1. Book: Bryant-Mole, K. (1997). Picture This! Food. Illinois: Rigby Interactive Library.
   2. Computer with Internet connection
   3. Computer drawing program
   4. Printer
   5. Disks (one for each student’s picture)
   6. Pencil and paper (to make notes for lesson plan assessment and reflections)
   7. Modification of  lesson developed by Dr. Diane L. Judd
       URL: http://www.valdosta.edu/~djudd/paintlesson.html

Technology Connection:
Technologies that will be used in this lesson include: computer with Internet connection, printer, computer drawing program, and website of Paint Picture & Story.  Students will use computers to view examples of pictures developed with a paint program.  Students will use a computer paint program to draw a picture related to the story.   Copy of my Paint website included with this lesson plan. 
Website Title: Paint Picture & Story of Picture This! Food  and  URL: http://www.valdosta.edu/~erfulton/paint.html.

Procedures:
Step One: Introduction
Have a small group of students go to a computer.  Tell students that today you are going to read a special book to them and they will get to draw a picture on the computer.  Explain that the book you are going to read is about different types of  foods, where foods come from, and why it is important for people to eat nutrious foods.  After we read the book, Picture This! Food, then you will get to draw a picture on the computer about the part of the book that you liked best.

Introduction questions:  Have you ever read any books about different foods?  What types of foods do eat you for breakfast, lunch and dinner?  Have you ever been on a farm?  Can you tell me something about the foods you like, and foods you dislike?

Relate lesson to students' lives today and/or future: Picture This! Food book will tell us some interesting facts about the foods we eat and where they come from.  While we are reading this book, maybe we can could find some foods you have never seen or eaten before .  This information will be helpful for explaining the different food groups.

Have students go to your Paint picture website and explain that you have made a picture on the computer as an example of one of your favorite books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.  (Have students sit at the computer where they can control the mouse and computer.  Assist students, if needed, to scroll up and down on Paint picture Web page.)  Share your Paint picture and read the summary of your book to the students.  

Estimated Time:
About 10 minutes

Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes
Explain to the students that you have selected a special book that you are going to read to them.  After we read our book then you will get todraw a picture on the computer of your favorite part of the story.  Teacher will read book, Picture This! Food, by Karen Bryant-Mole, to students.  Teacher will use oral reading strategies, such as picture walk, to introduce the book to students. 

Check for understanding before going on: Teacher will discuss story and ask questions while reading to students.  What types of  vegetables do you see in the picture? What kinds of fruit have you tasted? What is your favorite fruit? Do you like your vegetables raw or cooked? Is a lot of junk food good for you?  Have you had food from another country, like Chinese food?

Provide practice and feedback related to the primary learning outcomes:  Teacher will ask at least two critical thinking questions: 1. If you were shopping in the grocery store with your parents, what would you ask them to buy?  2. If you could pack your own lunch for school what  healthy foods would you put in your lunch box?

Assist students to open the drawing program and demonstrate how to use some of the drawing tools.  Students will have some exploration time with the drawing program and teacher will assist when needed.

Students will draw a picture of their favorite part of the book, Picture This? Food, using the computer drawing program.  During this drawing process teacher will observe students using the computer and give assistance when needed.  If possible print two copies of each student’s paint picture (one for student and one for your technology notebook).  Also save students’ pictures on disks [File--->Save As--->File name (give name with no spaces)--->Save as type (jpg or gif)--->Save in (A:)].

Estimated Time:
About 20 minutes

Closure:
Have students discuss their pictures and explain how they made their pictures in the Paint program to their teacher and peers.  Have students discuss some of the interesting facts about the foods that you found in the story.  Ask students if they were going to draw another picture, what would they draw?   Explain to students that most computers have drawing programs and maybe they could draw another picture at home or school.  (Teacher will review how to find the drawing program on most computers:  Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> Paint)

Tell students that you are going to put their picture on the Internet and they will be able to go on the Internet and share their pictures with their friends and family.  (If possible teacher should take brief notes during the lesson and concluding discussions for the lesson plan's assessment and reflections to be added later.)

Estimated Time:
About 5 minutes

Assessment the Primary Learning Outcomes:
A. Technology Integration
Student will be assessed through observation while using the mouse to control the computer and using the drawing program.
Satisfactory: Student is able to control the computer and use the mouse to view the Paint Web page and explore the drawing program.
Unsatisfactory: Student is not able to control the computer or use the mouse when viewing the Paint Web page and exploring the drawing program.

B. Language Arts
Student will be assessed for answers to the questions.
Satisfactory: Student is able to write or dictate answers that make sense to the presented questions in reference to the story.
Unsatisfactory: Student is not able to write or dictate answers that make sense to the presented questions in reference to the story.

C. Fine Arts
Student will be assessed by the development of a picture using the drawing program.
Satisfactory: Student is able to develop a picture through the use of the drawing program.
Unsatisfactory: Student is not able to develop a picture through the use of the drawing program.

Accommodation:
Links for Accommodations for Special Students
1. Select one of your students that needs special attention.  Describe the student in your class with special needs. (Do not use the student's real name.  You could refer to the student as "the special student.")  This particular student has a very short attention span. Class activities do not seem to interest her. She starts out doing the assignments with the rest of the class but after about 5 minutes into the assignment she loses interest and finds something else besides the assignment to do. She seems to work better when there is someone giving her one on one attention or pushing her to complete the assignments.   

2. List the specific URL address of one Internet resource website, where you found information to assist you to work with your special needs student. Information for assisting special students:  Links for Accommodations for Special Students or you can do a search. http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/add_adhd/ericE569.html

3. Explain what you would add to this lesson plan to accommodate your special student?  I would ask her questions while reading the story to make sure that I had her undivided attention. I would also watch her as she painted her picture to give her the one on one attention that she seems to need. While she is painting her picture I would ask her questions about her drawing.   

Reflections:
1. Describe and give examples of how the students were engaged in learning and responded during your lesson. 
The students ask questions and gave personal comments to show they were learning during the lesson. An specific examples: e.g., students appeared to be listening during the lesson when they discussed the different foods they like to eat and asked questions about the food groups and the foods that go into each group during the lesson.

2. Describe and give examples that illustrate how the students achieved each assessment of your lesson.  Give the achievement level (satisfactory or unsatisfactory) for each assessment for each of your students.   (Give specific examples (as evidence) that illustrate how your students did for each part of the lesson's assessment.)
    a. Technology Integration:
        Student One:  Satisfactory:  This student was able to  work the mouse by clicking  on the sites to view information.
        Student Two:  Satisfactory : This student was able to work the mouse by clicking on the sites to view information.

    b. Language Arts:
        Student One: Satisfactory: This student was able to understand and interpret the information that was read to him.
        Student Two: Satisfactory: This student was able to understand and interpret the information that was read to her.

    c. Fine Arts:
        Student One:  Satisfactory: This student was able to illustrate what he learned by painting a picture about the lesson.
        Student Two:  Satifactory: This student was able to illustrate what she learned by painting a picture about the lesson.
 

3. Describe what you would change or do different if you taught this lesson again.
I would focus on two or three web-sites to teach my lesson. Ten web-sites is a bit much for Pre-K students to remain focused. After a while they wanted to do something else. I would also have an hands-on activity for the students to do. It would have probably interested the kids more if they could hear music or hear the computer talk to them during the lesson instead of me doing all the talking. I would provide head phones for the students to use.

Book Title & Author for Paint Project	Picture This? Food by Karen Byrant-Mole
Cover of Book
Critical Thinking Questions from Paint Lesson	1. If you were shopping in the grocery store with your parents, what would you ask them to buy? 2. If you could pack your own lunch for school what  healthy foods would you put in your lunch box?

Answers & Comments to the Critical Thinking Questions by Students	1. Oranges, toys, hotdogs, milk, apples, fruit snacks, corn and potatoes 2. Sandwich, chips, candy and milk
Picture from the Paint Lesson
Description of Picture & Comments by Student about their Picture	She drew a picture of  oranges, fish, a hotdog, milk, broccoli and steak. Comments: I like to eat all of them. I saw these food in the book.

Answers & Comments to the Critical Thinking Questions by Students	1.  Steak, apples, cheese crackers, ice cream, hambugers and grapes 2.  Cookies, sandwich, chips and milk
Picture form the Paint Lesson
Description of Picture & Comments by Student about their Picture	He drew a picture of  a steak, cucumber, cheese crackers, candy apple, spaghetti and fish. Comments: We eat that stuff at home. I like the food in the book.