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SCIENCE & MATH PLANS
SCIENCE:
Lesson #1: Making Field guides about animals in Virginia
Virginia S.O.L.'s: 4.5 & 4.8
Objectives: Students will investigate & understand important Virginia natural resources - animals & plants, both domesticated and wild.
Materials Needed: SASE, sample business letter, construction paper, tabs, hole punchers, field guide pages.
Anticipatory Set: Discuss how to find out what animals live in Virginia. (Use encyclopedias, books from the library & the Internet.) Using overhead projector - review business letter. Give students a sample letter to practice writing. Ask them to bring in a SASE, (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) then, assign students contact addresses. (Mail letters when the SASE's come in.)
Direct Instruction: Teacher will show students how to put together their science field guide. (Using overhead projector, field guide page and reference books - have children find information on the State bird (or etc.) - fill in first page together.) Make sure students know that each child is responsible for their own field guide.
Guided Practice: Students start constructing their individual field guides with teacher helping where needed.
Field guide:
- Front - construction paper - (tan is a good color)have students design their own covers using crayons, markers or etc. (Integration of Art & Science!)
- Field guide pages - copy pages using different colors of paper - makes field guides colorful.
- Back - construction paper - same color as front.
- Staple all pages or punch holes and "sew" together with yarn to make booklet.
Independent Practice: Students should work on field guides at home, also.
***(Click here for sample Rubric to grade Field guides.)
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MATH:
Lesson #1 - Introducing Geometry VA S.O.L.: 4.15
Objectives:The student will investigate and describe the relationships between and among point, lines, line segments, and rays.
Materials needed: Yarn, notebooks, pencil
Anticipatory Set - Using string experiment: Teacher will call on 6 students to come to the front. Each child will hold onto a part of the string.
- The string (yarn) is part of a line that goes on forever, even after the string comes to an end. Discuss what things the line would pass through as it moved beyond each end of the string.
- Each child touching the string is a point on the line. The space between each pair of them is a line segment, or part of a line. The teacher will name line segments by callin the names of children. The named pair will hold onto the string - other will let go. (This shows how long each line segment is - and teacher can introduce the concept of endpoints.) Have children seated take turns calling out pairs.
- Have students, who are holding the string, notice who is beside them. Drawing a line on the chalkboard, draw a line (arrows on ends to indicate the line goes on & on in both directions) and place childrens names on the line. Ask children to name the "points" on the line.
- Discuss the arrows on end of line, then erase the children's names and place letters AB on the line. Explain that just like the names - letters can be used to "name" two points.
- Using the letters, dicuss the line segment between the two letters. Explain that just like the yarn - the line in between the letters are line segments.
- Place the letters A-D on the drawing of the line on the board. Have children call out "line segments".
- Next, draw a picture of a ray on the board. Ask children to tell you what they see. Tell them that this is a ray. Discuss the difference in a ray and line. (Ray - includes an endpoint and all points extending in one direction from that point.)
- The teacher will introduce the correct notation lines, rays, and segments.
For Direct Instruction, Guided practice and Independent Practice see your Math Instruction booklet - use with the geometry pages.
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