Carlos Romero
Noella Fields
Kasandra Pierson
Kayla Saintagne
Sandria Monroe
EDF
2130: Curriculum Evaluation Project
100 points
Title of Lesson
Who Lives in the Everglades?
Appropriate
Age/Grade
Kindergarten
Subject
Social Studies, Language Arts
Please address the following questions. Modifications for improvement of
the lesson plan must be based on the content of our textbook and what you
have learned in class. You must be sure to discuss the concepts in terms of
the theorists discussed both in class and in the textbook, as well as
connecting it to your lesson plan modifications.
A. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
1. How could this lesson be improved to foster more active construction
of knowledge?
a. Provide one example: This lesson plan could be improved to foster a more
active construction of knowledge by allowing the students to group up in pairs and
begin to discuss with each other about how all various types of animals and
organisms need to adapt to their habitat in order to be able to survive. We can help
by informing the students that animals essentially need adapting in order to be able
to survive the climatic conditions of any given ecosystem, predators that lurk in the
habitat, and even other species that compete for the same food and space they
reside in. We can teach the students that adaptation in animals is essentially a
modification or change in the animal’s body or behavior that helps it to survive in
their environment. The more the students understand about the various climates and
ways that animals adapt to those environments, the more they will understand about
this lesson plan activity that has them inspecting a habitat and the animals that live
within it.
b.Theorist/Concept: The Theorist of Cognitive Development is Jean Piaget is one of
the theorists that was able to figure out that children actually learn quite differently
when compared to adults
. Piaget believed that children are actively constructing their
understanding of the world as they grow, so that as their bodies grow, their minds
grow as well. He thought that this form of learning actually happened in stages -
Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Children that are 0-2 years old are said to
be in the sensorimotor stage where they learn through their senses such as eyes,
smell, taste, sight, hearing and touch and tend to be very active during this stage.
During 0-2 years of age there tends to be object permanence as well. When children
are roughly 2-7 years of age, they tend to be in the preoperational part. During this
preoperational stage it is when children really start to develop and engage in pretend
play. At around 2 years of age children begin to learn how to talk and as they get
older up to 7 or more years of age, they tend to notice that symbols and objects have
verbal meanings. Children that are the age of 7-11 years old, they tend to be in the
concrete operational stage. During this stage, children are basically able to make
mental and concrete operations. Children are also usually able to even more logically
