Springtime Lesson Plan【For Reference Only】 Teaching goal: Review the names of the four seasons first. Point out that it’s springtime now. Ask the students to tell the differences between the four seasons to the class. Emphasize the meaning of the Earth’s birthday and the connection with spring. Teach students the song for spring “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”. Direct the class to do the “easy experiments with bean sprouts”. And then play the game “Let’s Release Insects” with students. Lastly, pass the worksheet to the students and ask them to do the activities with the worksheet in class. Reward the students who have done good jobs during class.Teaching props: CD of “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”, CD player A hand-made lyrics poster of the song “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” Bulletin paper Activity sheet (see below), teachers should make enough copies

for each student. Teaching process:Warm Up:1. Divide the students into several small groups. Ask the class to

discuss the distinguishing features of four seasons. 2. Have one student from each group stand up and tell the class the

result of discussion.3. Discuss the opinions of each group and tell the students the

differences between seasons.Presentation:1. Tell the students that spring is coming. Here are the signs of

spring: Flowers are in full bloom, new leaves have sprouted, bugs are out, and birds have returned from the south. You’ll also find some other signs of spring: Grass begins to grow, birds build nests, and bears and other sleeping animals wake up. Farmers and gardeners plant seeds in the spring.

2. Post the lyrics of the song “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” on the blackboard. Teach students to sing the song together.

3. Tell the students there are several festivals in the springtime: April Fool’s Day, Passover (a holiday for Jewish people), Easter, and Earth Day.

4. Explain the meaning of Earth Day to the students: spring is a season to be grateful, especially to thank the earth, the planet which has been taking care of creatures. For this reason, protecting the earth is the way to go.

5. Tell the students one of the easiest ways to improve the situation of our environment is by planting plants. Direct the class to do the “easy experiments with bean sprouts”. You may prepare a camera to record the process and the results of the easy experiments for each group.

6. Play the game “Let’s release insects!” with your students. Don’t forget to reward the students who recognize all the names of insects correctly to encourage them for continuing to learn English.

7. Now give students the activity sheets and ask them to do the activities with the sheets in class.

The itsy bitsy spiderClimbed up the water spout.

Down came the rain And washed the spider out.

Out came the sunAnd dried up all the rain.And the itsy bitsy spider

Climbed up the spout again.

Activity Sheet 1Springtime Word Search Instruction: The students who can find and circle at least five

words from the “word search”, win a reward.

Word Listspring summer autumn winter bee butterfly ladybug grasshopper spider dragonfly

c u i g f l v s x b

w r d r y x t d h u

a l r a u t u m n t

w a a s p r i n g t

i d g s f g q k b e

n y o h s u m m e r

t b n o p p r j e f

e u f p i w v t e l

r g l p d s n k a y

w d y e e f b u s c

q r j r r i o p k g

Activity Sheet 2Who’s The Fast? Instruction: Give each student an activity sheet and ask them

cut the cards out from the sheet. They’ll now have sets of the word cards. Pair off the students and ask them hold the cards and then stand back to back. After both of them shout “1, 2, 3”, they turn round and show one of the cards to each other at the same time. Both the students have to shout what’s on the picture on the other’s card in three seconds. Students themselves could be the judges. Whoever shouts out the correct answer first wins the reward.

spring summer autumn winter

grasshopper

ladybugbutterflybee

dragonflyspider earth plant

Wrap Up:1. Review the meaning of Earth Day with students.2. Ask students go to the board and write down the names of four

seasons and insects. For the basic level class, you may show them the pictures of the words and ask the students speak out the name of each picture.

3. Put the plants from the bean sprouts somewhere in or out of the classroom with enough sunshine. The plants express the spirit of the coming of spring, and teach students to plant is also the best way to educate kids about the importance of protecting the Earth by doing the right things.

【中譯文】春天的教學活動教案教學目標： 老師先和全班學生一起複習季節名稱，並指出現在的季節是春季。詢問學生們四個季節的不同並加以討論。接著強調春季裡任何一天都算是地球的生日，所以在這個季節裡我們更要愛護地球。教唱“The Itsy Bitsy Spider”(歌詞如下)。最後發給學生活動單並要求大家在課堂上完成。對於表現好的學生記得給予獎勵使用教具： “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”的歌曲 CD 及 CD player “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”的手製歌曲大掛圖 壁報紙 足夠份數的活動單(如下文)教學過程：課前暖身1. 將全班分成幾個小組。請學生分組討論四季的特色。2. 每個小組推派一位代表到前面來報告討論結果。3. 老師為每一組的報告做總結，並告訴大家四季的不同。教學步驟1. 告訴學生春天來了，春天的訊息包括有：花朵盛開，樹葉抽嫩芽，群蟲飛

舞，鳥兒也從南方歸巢了。還有其他的春天消息：草兒生長，小鳥築巢，冬眠的動物甦醒，農夫和園丁們也忙著在春天播種。

2. 將“The Itsy Bitsy Spider”的歌曲大掛圖貼在黑板上，並教學生唱這首歌。

3. 告訴學生有好幾個節慶都在春天舉行，例如愚人節，踰越節(屬於猶太人的節慶)，復活節，以及世界地球日。

4. 為學生解說世界地球日的意義：春天是一個適合表達謝意的季節，特別是感謝蘊育大地萬物的地球，因此，保護地球也就成為必要的工作。

5. 提醒學生，改善生活環境最簡單的方法之一就是栽種植物。指導學生進行“easy experiments with bean sprouts”的實驗(全文詳見 Activity of Spring Time)。老師不妨準備一台相機將不同組別學生的實驗過程及結果拍下做為紀錄的一部份。

6. 和學生一起玩“Let’s release insects!”的遊戲(全文詳見 The Game of Spring Time)，不要忘了獎勵那些認得昆蟲單字的學生以鼓勵大家努力學習英文。

7. 發給學生活動單並要求學生們在課堂上完成。課後複習1. 和學生一起複習世界地球日的意義。2. 請學生到前面來，在黑板上寫出四季和昆蟲的名稱。針對基礎程度的學生，

老師只要展示單字圖片並請學生說出單字即可。3. 將豆芽盆栽擺放在教室裡面或戶外光線充足的地方。豆芽盆栽傳達了春天來臨的訊息，以及教導學生保護地球的正確觀念。

The Itsy Bitsy SpiderClimbed up the water spout.

Down came the rain And washed the spider out.

Out came the sunAnd dried up all the rain.And the itsy bitsy spider

Climbed up the spout again.