In my experience, when it comes to lessons for younger students who are less attentive engage their senses, keep lessons multi-modal, and use movement to keep them focused. Students learn more efficiently when information is presented visually, auditorily, and kinesthetically. Also, providing students with materials to enhance sensory perception helps them engage in exploration of the lesson presented. Set up discovery stations so that students can move around and explore and always include a hands-on mutli-sensory activity that relates directly to the topic/learning objective.
A mini lesson plan would entail;
1.) Select learning objective(s) from your mandated curriculum
2.) Choose a 'hook' this is where you'll introduce the topic - remember to implement multi-modal methods
3.) List guided practice activities - remember to use multi-sensory and movement for engagement.
4.) Choose 1-2 informal/formal assessments, done after the practice activities that way you'll know how well your little learners grasped the learning objective.
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