Day 1 for my unit plan on Photosynthesis. Class is ci 350

1. Smith M. 1
Day 1
A: My class is fourth grade with 30 students. 18 of those students are males and 12 students
are female. This is a rural area with 35% Caucasian, 35% African Americans, 15%
Latino, and 15% Asian. One student has Down Syndrome.
S: The state objective for the pupils to be identify the purpose of carbon dioxide for
photosynthesis. Every student will begin to see the important of Carbon Dioxide in
photosynthesis. By the end of the day, my pupils will have a 65% degree of accuracy.
This isn’t a high degree because as the week goes on they will get a better understanding
of carbon dioxide’s role in photosynthesis.
S: My method is to split the equation of photosynthesis up. Day 1 is all about Carbon
Dioxide and its role in photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a complex equation unless
broken down. Carbon Dioxide will be analyzed for the first day and will make an
appearance the rest of the week. This will help the students get a better understanding of
Carbon Dioxide.
U: Preview the materials: go over the video to make sure it’s what I actually want and will
benefit for the students
Prepare the material: make sure the video actually works
Prepare the environment: have the material ready to go for them such as speakers for the
video and paper for their calendar
Prepare the learners: start by asking if anyone knows what photosynthesis is
Provide a learning experience: when I’m excited about the material, they will rub off of
my vibe and get them excited
I will show a clip from an episode of Spongebob. The clip is to get the students interested
in learning about photosynthesis. Then we will look through the Wiki plan that highlights
our week. It helps the children see what activities and topic we will be learning about. It
gives them prior knowledge to the subject before I begin to talk about the subject.
Document: We will read about Carbon Dioxide’s role in photosynthesis from website.
The document highlights the purpose of Carbon Dioxide.
I am keeping the first day at a very easy day. It gives the students time to ask questions
and become curious about the topic.

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R: As a follow up, the pupils will get onto their Facebook and Twitter pages. On these
pages, the students will find discussions about Carbon Dioxide. Every student must
comment on the page as well as reply to at least one of their peers. It gives the students
the ability to debate about the topic being learned. This gives me a good view of what
they understand about Carbon Dioxide and what they do not. The follow up helps for the
following day to make sure Carbon Dioxide is figured out or needs to be refreshed.
E: Evaluating before the lesson will help me see if I am getting Carbon Dioxide across. I
will have to act like I know nothing on the topic and see if the lesson provided makes
sense to me or not. This will help give the students and I a good ground to learn on. If I
evaluate before the lesson, I can see events that will not work or will work good. It is
important to me to have that done considering Carbon Dioxide is the first step of
photosynthesis and should be known correctly.