Child+Development+Lesson

=Time Frame= Friday (2nd & 3rd per): 6/1 Tuesday (3rd only): 6/5

=Why should a little kid know about ponds?= To preserve quality drinking water - to realize that ponds are home to lots of organisms.

=What do you want the future to understand about pond life?= What a pond is The organisms that live there Food Chains (why all organisms are important) Preserving Clean Water for animals - like humans and frogs (sustainability)

=Who is your audience and how do you interact with them?= Some ESL - English immersion - resist communicating in their language

ACTIVE - 5 min attention span Hands-on Small Groups more manageable =Ideas?= __[]__

2012
Tag (predator/prey) Mobiles of Food Chains Steal the Bacon/Jackpot Blue Jello with Swedish Fish, etc... Tragedy of the Commons - goldfish

2011
Introduce Do water thing: big clear bucket (water that we drink looks like this....What happens when you put litter, dirt in it?) This is what happens when you litter...would you want to drink this? Well this is also home for animals too, they don't want to live here....) Do song  Book  Coloring pond animals then placing in pond  Food chains, puppets and arrange chains

End/Option: Make cards for someone special

Steve’s Food Web Idea -pictures, hold hands, dropped string? Coloring Book Singing 5 speckled frogs Ashlyn’s dirty water Animals Matching Game? Reading a book : Tuesday's group trust Child Dev't to handle this station

Extra time: Write the letter to someone special

= ** HOW ** = Sitting (book) Food Web (moving) Singing the frog song can incorporate water Finish with importance of water

=**MATERIALS**= Will be given name tags (provided) Coloring materials (provided?) Microscopes & Petri Dishes Frogs? Fake Ponds? Internet/YouTube/Projector We can go outside into the courtyard.