6/12/2013

Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Plan

Name: Ashley Schoenthal Lesson Title: Sorting Tastes

Date: 4/8/19 Grade Level: Preschool Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Cognition and General Knowledge: Science Inquiry and Application: Inquiry: “Describe, compare, sort, classify, and order.”,
Language and Literacy: Listening and Speaking: Expressive Language: “Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly. (Articulation)”
Cognition and General Knowledge: Algebra: Group and Categorize: “Sort and classify objects by one or more attributes (e.g., size, number).”
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Reading of the taste book, the EKWQ chart, Ms. Kate’s information on different foods

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to...
 The student will be able to
describe the foods that
they sort, as well as
vocalize if they like it or not
(if they have never tasted
it, they will be able to
vocalize if they think they
would like it/ what it would
taste like).
 The student will be able to
determine what type of
taste the foods fit into.
One Assessed Developmental
Skill:
 The students will be able
to use their sorting skills to
sort the foods into different
tastes.
Safety Considerations:
 Adult monitoring (make
sure the children are being
safe).
Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?)
- I will record the students’ descriptions of the foods
they taste. I will be looking to see if they use words
like sweet, salty, etc.
- I will record what type of taste the students placed
each food in.
- I will record what foods students like and dislike, and
why (if they have never tasted it before I will record
if they think they would like it and why).
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?)
- I will compile my evidence by making a chart of the
most commonly missed foods and the most
common, correctly placed foods.
Academic Language:
-Taste
-Types of taste: sweet, salty, bitter, sour
Procedural steps:
- Cut out and laminate mouths. Each one has a
different taste type on it.
- Cut out and laminate food cut outs (types of food
listed in the materials section).
- Put Velcro circles on the perimeters of the mouth
around the taste name.
- Put the other side of the Velcro circle on the back of
the food cutouts.
- Tape the mouths to the table.
- Individually, have the children come to the table.
Introduce the lesson by saying: “Remember how we
talked about the types of taste? Do you remember
the types? Well today we’re going to sort foods into
the types of taste.”.
- Lay the food cutouts in front of the child. Have them
pick them up in any order and place them where they
believe it goes. Scaffold the children’s thinking skills,
but don’t give them the answer.
- Take a picture of the final product.
- Then, with the whole group, tape the mouths to the
board. Put the food cutouts on the correct type and
talk about why each one belongs in that category.
Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real life, hands-on
materials.)
- Mouth cut outs with taste name on it (laminated)
- Laminated food cutouts (pickle, lime, chocolate,
strawberry, lemon, ice cream cone, coffee, broccoli,
popcorn, potato chips, French fries)
 6/12/2013
Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Plan

- Velcro circles
Adult Roles:
- Monitor children while working
- Provide scaffolding for children (try to not give them
answers)
- Describe foods that children have never tasted before
- Use academic language

Resources & References:

- Ohio Early Learning Standards: Birth through Kindergarten Entry Skills
- Education.com
- FamilyEducation.com

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)
After doing this lesson, I learned that a lot of the students have some idea about taste, but they don’t have a solid footing on why foods fit into the
category. For example, some of the children put lime in sour, but they only did it because it looked like a lemon. Another example would be when they put lemon in
sweet because they know lemonade can be sweet. I also learned that they understand sweet better than the other types of taste. This will inform my future
instruction because I see now what needs to be worked on. I will create a lesson that allows the children to actually taste the food and talk about how it tastes.
After they taste the food, I would take each food they tasted and tell them what type of taste it fits into. I think this would help them determine where foods fit into.
After that lesson I would go back with this lesson and see how their answers have changed.