Creating the "Lesson Plan"

Creating this lesson plan was not as easy as I envisioned, at least this one. I am an early childhood and elementary education major and I am not used to creating lesson plans with this criteria. Being an ECE major, I am used to creating simple lesson plans, yet educational. The conduction of this lesson plan in particular was challenging because I had to integrate the usage of technology and an activity that uses spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel, which by far was the least thing I liked in creating this. I was impressed by the wide range of lesson plans my colleagues shared in class. Early childhood and elementary were the minorities. The only activity I thought of first was counting classroom items, such as school supplies, books, and desks. Dr. Cyrus asked me what the students can learn or explain in this lesson plan. I knew I had to think of something else that students can learn from and explain as they present their digital spreadsheet. She also told me to step out of my comfort zone; so I did.
I thought about health and considering how child obesity being an immense dilemma in the United States, creating a lesson plan around children counting the snacks they eat on a daily bases and managing them was my favorite part. From duration of one week, the students can either increase their healthy snacks instead or they can decrease their intake of their unhealthy snacks e.g. chocolate candy, sweet cookies, cakes, etc. In a well constructed lesson plan, objectives are very important; they must illustrate verbs that are clear and measurable. I was fortunate enough to find a web site that stated that “objectives should not be activities that will be used in the lesson plan. They should instead be the learning outcomes of those activities.” (Lesson Plans Page) We want our students to learn from thee objectives in our lesson plans, not just participate in the “activity.”
According to the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•T) for Teachers standard 4C, it states that we must “apply multiple methods of evaluation to determine students’ appropriate use of technology resources for learning, communication, and productivity.” We want to ensure that out students learn the different purposes of technology. Students with a learning disability or those with special needs can still learn how to use technology because technology today is beyond accommodating for everyone, regardless is you have a learning disability or not.