Exploring Standards-Based Lesson Plans

Hi guys! The grade/age level for the lesson plan that I will be writing about is focused on Infants/Young Toddlers. I have the pleasure of working with this age group every day so I've used the Early Learning & Development Standards to outline a standard lesson plan and throw in details that are used daily in the classroom. I'm hoping to also add a little experience in the post for how my children typically react. My class is expected to do this lesson every day. The repetition helps them to be able to remember the material better. The lesson is on body awareness since the age difference is from birth-18 months in my classroom it is different from the Infants to Young Toddlers. They are expected to be able to look and recognize some of their body parts.

The Common Core standards that this lesson meets is under the domain Physical Well-Being and Motor Development. The strand is Physical Well-Being, the topic is Body Awareness, and the standard statements are to show awareness of own body and point to basic body parts when asked. My lesson plan for this happens during circle time in my classroom. We have a lot of books to cater to this learning topic. The kids' favorite book to teach this is Where is Baby's Belly? by Karen Katz. It holds the kids' interest well due to it being a lift the flap book and it allows time to ask questions. It meets the standards for both the infants and young toddlers by being able to show or wiggle the infants' body parts that they are referring to and asking the young toddlers to point to their feet, nose, eyes, etc. This is one of the many ways that this topic is taught by lesson plan in my class.

How would I implement this lesson? I told you how I implement the lesson daily but it is many other ways to do this in the classroom. I often revisit it during diaper changes to hold the attention by asking questions like "can you show me your ears?" This can even be brought up during play with baby dolls or teddy bears asking them where are certain body parts makes them more aware. Some toys cater specially to this learning topic. The most difficult task at this age level is to gain their attention and keep it. This is why I believe that repetition is important along with implementing lesson plans in more than one way throughout the day.


Ohio's Early Learning & Development Standards






The book used in circle time




















A toy that can be used to further learning independently

http://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Birth-Through-Pre_K-Learning-and-Development-Stand/ELDS-Physical-Well-being-and-Motor-Development.pdf.aspx