First Lesson Plan Ever

So I am finishing my third semester at ECU.  My major is Birth-K Education and I have not had one single class that deals with how or what you actually teach kids.  Don't get me wrong - I've had some pretty incredible courses but in general they are more about typical and atypical development of young children.  Infants and Toddlers, Introduction to Children and Families, Special Education, Early Intervention, Cultural Diversity and Intro to American Education.   The EDUC class was more a history and survey course about what it means to be a teacher, not really how to be a teacher.   For my Technology in Education classroom my final project was developing a lesson plan incorporating NCSCOS (North Carolina Standard Course of Study) goals and objectives and using the Smart Board technology as part of the lesson.  And of course, the technology wasn't the challenging part for me.  First of all, NC, even though it has a PreK program, does not have NCSCOS goals for PreK - so I picked Kindergarten goals.  Then it dawned on me that I  had to come up with something to capture the attention of 10 - 14 four year olds for 45 minutes.
PANIC....
Not really panic but a deep breath - a bunch of internet research (thank you internet I have no idea what I did before you existed) and about four hours later I had a passable plan.
I chose to do a lesson on colors - Primary and how to create secondary colors.  I chose this mostly because it is a subject that is endlessly fascinating to Nate right now.  He is constantly asking questions like - what color does blue and purple make?  What color does red and red make?  Or my favorite, what color does green and pink make?  - I had to laugh at that one... and my answer was "you know... I'm not sure."
So back to my lesson - I was able to apply NCSCOS goals from Computers/Technology, Mathematics and Visual arts and write up my plan.  I began with a short (20min) interactive Smart Board activity reviewing the six basic colors via a rainbow.  Then labeling the primary colors.  The first activity was to overlay shapes of varying colors to reveal the "new" or secondary color.  After that I created a couple of sorting and labeling activities and ended with a review on the SmartBoard.  Then to the fun part.  Once we had established what colors we could create with Red Blue and Yellow I send them to the art area where we create a class mural of a rainbow using only Red Blue and Yellow paint.

Sounds like fun huh?

The Smart Notebook software was fun to learn.  I'm sure I only scratched the surface of what its capable of.  I wish I could post a sample but you have to have the software to run the activity.  There are pdf print outs of it on my portfolio page if you are interested.

http://portfolio.coe.ecu.edu/students/campbellsa10/Campbell%20EDTC%205010%20SMART%20Activity.pdf