Lesson Plan for the Teens
This is a lesson plan on materials (plastic, metal, etc) for a class of 12-14 year olds. These lessons are 2 hours long. Pretty much everyone hates teaching them, because they are so long. However, it kind of works out because since the students will do activities for a longer period of time than the little kids will. With the babies, you can only play a game for 5 minutes, and then they lose focus.
1. Check attendance and homework (noticing a pattern yet?)
2. Introduce vocabulary- gather students around the computer and bring up pictures of the words, students write the Chinese translation in their book. The teenagers don’t really care about flashcards, and I like to make sure they get the correct translation (I don’t have a Chinese teacher in the classroom with me). This sometimes takes 20 minutes, because something we see online invariably sidetracks us.
3. Give the students a sentence structure, and have them plug their own words in- A ___ is made of ___.
4. Scavenger hunt- students go around the school and find different materials, write the down then share with the class.
5. Invention- students have to create something new using the materials listed in the book (just draw a picture and describe it, I wish we had the resources to attempt to make things).
6. Complete a page (or 2) of bookwork.
7. Paper airplane tournament- students make a paper airplane. They say a sentence or answer a question, and get to try to throw their airplane into the trash can. If the get it in, the go to the next round, where the throwing line is farther back, and so on.
8. Listening (out of book).
9. Discussion- Quality of materials, where you should buy certain things, etc.
10. Worksheet on a grammar structure
11. Football throwing game- kids throw ball back and forth to each other, first to drop is out and answers questions.
12. Review sheet (like the ones the kids do, but I don’t comment on their behavior unless they are really bad.)
This is a lesson plan on materials (plastic, metal, etc) for a class of 12-14 year olds. These lessons are 2 hours long. Pretty much everyone hates teaching them, because they are so long. However, it kind of works out because since the students will do activities for a longer period of time than the little kids will. With the babies, you can only play a game for 5 minutes, and then they lose focus.
1. Check attendance and homework (noticing a pattern yet?)
2. Introduce vocabulary- gather students around the computer and bring up pictures of the words, students write the Chinese translation in their book. The teenagers don’t really care about flashcards, and I like to make sure they get the correct translation (I don’t have a Chinese teacher in the classroom with me). This sometimes takes 20 minutes, because something we see online invariably sidetracks us.
3. Give the students a sentence structure, and have them plug their own words in- A ___ is made of ___.
4. Scavenger hunt- students go around the school and find different materials, write the down then share with the class.
5. Invention- students have to create something new using the materials listed in the book (just draw a picture and describe it, I wish we had the resources to attempt to make things).
6. Complete a page (or 2) of bookwork.
7. Paper airplane tournament- students make a paper airplane. They say a sentence or answer a question, and get to try to throw their airplane into the trash can. If the get it in, the go to the next round, where the throwing line is farther back, and so on.
8. Listening (out of book).
9. Discussion- Quality of materials, where you should buy certain things, etc.
10. Worksheet on a grammar structure
11. Football throwing game- kids throw ball back and forth to each other, first to drop is out and answers questions.
12. Review sheet (like the ones the kids do, but I don’t comment on their behavior unless they are really bad.)
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