Last updated: March 25, 2023
Lesson Plan
Looking Small, Thinking BIG!
- Grade Level:
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subject:
- Literacy and Language Arts,Science
- Lesson Duration:
- 60 Minutes
- Common Core Standards:
- 4.RF.4, 4.RF.4.a, 5.RF.4, 5.RF.4.a, 4.RI.7, 4.RI.10, 5.RI.1, 5.RI.7, 5.RI.10, 3.L.1.i, 3.L.2.g, 3.L.3.a, 3.L.3
- Thinking Skills:
- Applying: Apply an abstract idea in a concrete situation to solve a problem or relate it to a prior experience. Analyzing: Break down a concept or idea into parts and show the relationships among the parts. Creating: Bring together parts (elements, compounds) of knowledge to form a whole and build relationships for NEW situations.
Essential Question
Do you have to be big to think BIG?!?!
Objective
Students will have the opportunity to develop their observation, description, and deduction skills.
Background
Activity is based on The Private Eye® 5X Looking/Thinking by Analogy - A Guide to Developing the Interdisciplinary Mind, by Kerry Reuf.
Teacher will need art supplies (crayons, pencils, markers, extra paper, etc) and small magnifing glasses for each student.Preparation
An entire world is waiting to be uncovered right at your fingertips, even ON your fingertips!
Everywhere around you are wonders awaiting discovery, the wonders of the small. With
keen observation and thinking skills and some simple tools, you can begin to see this fantastic
world and discover that when you are looking at the small, you are really thinking...BIG!
Materials
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Lesson Hook/Preview
Do you have to BE big to THINK big?
Procedure
1. Print out the Looking Small, Thinking BIG booklet pages and distribute appropriate background and activity pages to each student.
2. Distribute art supplies and magnifying glasses to each student.
3. Go through the activities with the students as time permits, selecting locations inside or outside the classroom with interesting areas to magnify and describe.