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Bugs: Preschool Lesson Plan -- Marilyn Rome, Kimberly Steele, Joseph Ziegler
Preschool Lesson Plans: “Bugs”
Contributors: Marilyn Rome, Kimberly Steele and Joseph Ziegler
Theme selection CRISPA elements: Emotional Connection - Young children are
inherently fascinated by bugs. They also seem to have a higher perceptivity regarding
bugs, always finding them on the playground.
Daily Learning Centers CRISPA elements:
Center choice - Active engagement: kids are in the driver’s seat and
determine where they go and with whom they interact.
Natural groupings of children result in increased social and emotional
connections.
Sensory experience through a variety of hands-on manipulatives at
each center.
Imagination engaged via the dramatic play area, costumes and toy
figurines.
Intellectual connections capitalized through thematic units. A variety
of interactive experiences result in meaning-making around the subject
of study.
Connections Risk-taking Imagination Sensory experience Perceptivity Active engagement
Center/Activity
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Group circle time:
Focus of the day
What is a bug?
Brainstorm & write
ideas, C
How do bugs move?
Brainstorm & write
ideas, C
How are bugs
helpful/hurtful? C
Transition Activity,
A
“Insect Song” to
"Wheels on the
Bus," S
Move like a bug of
choice to center, R,
I, P
Hand out cards -
sort into helpful or
harmful activities C
Art, A
Make a Bug: Free
choice of 3D
materials, S, I
How many more legs--
do you need to have 6?
Butterfly footprints
- paint kids' feet and
have them dance on
white butcher paper
to the song “The
Flight of the
Bumblebee,” S, P
Use an egg carton to
stamp a beehive, I
Math, A
Number/color/dot
Bugs - snap together
Patterning cards &
small rubber bugs
Group game: Figure
out how many
children it takes to
have 6, 8 legs, R, C
Science, A
Scoop-a-Bug
manipulative game
(fine motor &
Symmetry - paint
one side of a
butterfly wing and
Tasting honey -
write down
descriptive words, S