Lesson Plan for Class
4th English (Marigold)
Subject: English
Lesson Name: Noses
Board: CBSE (Aligned
with NEP 2020 Guidelines)
1. Curricular Goals
To enhance students'
understanding of humour and self-awareness through the poem.
To develop language
and communication skills by engaging with the poem.
Encourage critical
thinking and reflection on how personal features or quirks are part of
individuality.
Foster creativity
through activities like roleplaying and drawing, connecting body parts to
emotions and expressions.
2. Competencies/Skills
Language Skills:
Vocabulary building, reading comprehension, and pronunciation.
Creative Thinking:
Understanding humour and appreciating self-identity.
Social and Emotional
Skills: Self-awareness, confidence, and body image.
Observation Skills:
Focusing on details related to physical features and their representation in
the poem.
3. Targeted Learning Outcomes
Students will read and
understand the poem Noses and appreciate its humorous take on personal
features.
Learners will expand
their vocabulary with new words related to facial features and emotions.
Students will engage
in creative expression, drawing their own interpretations of the poem.
Learners will reflect
on individuality and the importance of appreciating one's own uniqueness.
4. Play based Activity
Mirror Game: Students
use small mirrors to observe their own noses and make funny faces. They can
then describe their features humorously, mimicking the tone of the poem.
Guess the Emotion: In
pairs, one student makes a face showing a specific emotion (e.g., surprise,
happiness), and the other guesses based on the nose and other facial
expressions.
5. Experiential Learning Activity
Create a Nose Drawing:
Students draw pictures of noses in different shapes and sizes, labelling them
with funny descriptions. This helps them connect with the poem’s humour and
personalize their understanding of the subject.
Personal Reflection:
Ask students to think of a feature they like about themselves and write a
short, humorous poem or story based on it.
6. Art/Sport Integrated Activities
Art: Have students
create a collage using cutout pictures of noses from magazines and cartoons,
illustrating the diversity of features in a humorous way.
Sport: Organize a
simple facial expression relay where students race to pass on exaggerated
expressions (including focusing on the nose) while maintaining team
coordination.
7. Learning Tools/TLM to be Used
Flashcards with key
vocabulary (e.g., nose, funny, expression, feature).
Mirrors for the
observation activity.
Chart paper, crayons,
and drawing tools for the creative nose drawing activity.
A projector or
computer to display examples of artwork or poems related to facial features.
8. Gist of the Lesson
The poem Noses humorously describes how a young child sees
their own nose and finds it funny. It reflects on the idea of self-observation,
where something as simple as a nose can become a source of amusement. The poem
encourages children to embrace their personal quirks and realize that everyone
is unique in their own way, even in something as ordinary as their nose.
9. Teaching directed Teacher guided and Student
led Activities
Teacher Guided:
Introduce the poem by discussing facial
features, specifically noses, and how they can be humorous.
Read the poem aloud, encouraging students to
listen for the rhyme and humour.
Explain new vocabulary and guide a discussion
about how we see ourselves in the mirror.
Student Led:
Students take turns reading lines from the
poem, working in pairs or groups to emphasize the humour and rhyme.
In groups, students create their own funny
descriptions or drawings of noses, sharing them with the class.
Student led discussion on what they found
funny or interesting about the poem.
10. Pedagogical Procedure & Resources
Required
Procedure:
1. Introduction: Start by showing students a few
pictures of noses from cartoons or characters with exaggerated features. Ask
them what they find funny about them.
2. Reading the Poem: Read the poem Noses aloud and
explain the rhyme, humour, and vocabulary.
3. Discussion: Engage students in a conversation
about how they see their own features. Encourage light-hearted reflection on
how unique everyone’s nose can be.
4. Creative Activity: Have students draw their own noses
or create funny nose designs. Let them label their creations with humorous
descriptions.
5. Mirror Game: Conduct the mirror game where
students observe and describe their noses using fun language.
Resources Required:
NCERT Marigold
Textbook,
Mirrors for
observation,
Chart paper and
crayons for drawing activity,
Projector to show
cartoon noses or illustrations,
Vocabulary flashcards.
11. In Lesson Formative Assessment
Observe how well
students understand and interpret the humour in the poem.
Check participation in
reading and discussion to assess comprehension and engagement.
Monitor how students
interact during the drawing and mirror activities, noting their creativity and
ability to describe their observations.
12. Post Lesson Assessment
Creative Assessment:
Assess students’ drawings of noses and their humorous descriptions, looking for
creativity and understanding of the poem’s theme.
Writing Task: Have
students write a short, funny poem or sentence about another facial feature,
demonstrating their understanding of the poem’s structure and tone.
Oral Recitation:
Assess how well students recite the poem, focusing on their fluency,
pronunciation, and expression of humour.
13. Assessment Strategies
Oral Reading: Evaluate
how fluently and expressively students read the poem aloud.
Written Responses:
Assess students’ ability to write their own humorous description of a feature.
Creative Work: Assess
creativity and originality in their nose drawings and humorous descriptions.
Participation: Observe
how actively students participate in activities and discussions.
14. Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary
Activities
Science:
Discuss the function of the nose as part of the respiratory system and how
different people (and animals) have different noses based on their environment.
Art: Use the
drawing activity to discuss different shapes, sizes, and forms in nature,
emphasizing individuality and diversity.
Health and Hygiene:
Talk about the importance of keeping the nose clean and how it helps us smell
and breathe.
15. Reinforcement/Practice Plan
Encourage students to
observe other people’s noses at home and write a funny line or two about their
family members (light-hearted and positive).
Provide more poems or
short stories that use humour to describe simple, everyday things.
Engage students in
drawing and writing more funny descriptions about other facial features or body
parts.
16. Selfassessment by Teacher After Execution
of the Lesson
Reflect on student
engagement: Did students understand and appreciate the humour in the poem?
Evaluate if the mirror
and drawing activities helped students connect with the lesson.
Assess whether the
targeted learning outcomes were achieved, especially with regard to vocabulary,
self-awareness, and creativity.
Identify if there were
any areas where students struggled with self-expression and plan ways to
address them in future lessons.
This lesson plan is designed to foster creativity, self-awareness,
and humour in alignment with the NEP 2020 guidelines. It uses art, play based,
and experiential learning to make the concept of self-observation fun and
engaging for students.