Job Interview Questions: Ideas for a lesson plan for preschool children for a job interview?

I am interviewing with a preschool and for the interview they want me to write up a lesson plan and present it to a small group of children. I'm totally stumped on ideas. I'm looking for something relatively short (10-15 minutes) that's not messy and since it's very short, something that doesn't require a big long introduction. I would appreciate any help!

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Keep it simple and avoid product oriented activities. Read a book and lead a simple activity. Here are a few ideas:
*Read A House For Hermit Crab. Bring an assortment of sea shells for the children to examine. Ask questions to encourage discussion. Questions such as is it hard or soft? Bumpy or smooth? What colors do you see? Do you think Hermit Crab could live in that shell? Let the children handle the shells, sort them and talk about shape, colors, textures, etc.
*Read I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean. Ask 4 children of varying heights to stand up and ask the rest of the children to help you arrange them in order from tallest to shortest. This gives you lots of opportunity for discussion, and you are teaching them the terms tallest and shortest and teaching them to arrange in graduated order.
*Read a book such as Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. Ahead of time, make bright simple pictures of flowers (2 of each) on half sheets of black construction paper. Don't make too many. 12 or 14 cards will be plenty. After you read the story, play Memory with your flower cards. Talk about matching colors and shapes.

Each of these scenarios addresses a variety of skills including language, math, and literacy skills, as well as social skills. Do you know how to write a lesson plan? You could find a lot of different styles of lesson plan templates on line and adapt one so that you have something written to show them. Here's a web site with some plan format ideas: www.lessonplans4teachers.com/dail… Just use them to give you ideas how to go about writing up a plan for your activity.

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• try this site to get some ideas. teachers.net/lessonplans/grades/preschool/
  
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• ask a question and get them to investigate, like does this do this, then get them to answer... maybe a maths question