Introduce
Project
-endangered
species; habitats; good neighbors PROJECT: -interview
with the animals -mobiles -pretest |
Classify
-classify
life-forms poster -major
concept definitions -habitat
breakdown game -WORLD
BIOMES!!!!!!! |
Experiments
-independent
field-trip assignment -plant
experiment -design
worm experiment |
Start Mobile
-compare
plants and animals -hand out mobile checklists |
Producers/Consumers
-habitat
lap-sit game -mobiles |
Producers/Consumers
-cloze
exercise about producers and consumer -mobiles |
Food Chain
-pizza
menus -VIDEO -food
chain cards (Pt.1) -mobiles |
Food Chain -independent
field-trip assignment due -“Wolf-Island”
story -food
chain cards (Pt.2) -mobiles |
Adaptations
-adaptations
chart -adaptations
sheet (for both plants and animals) -mobiles |
Adaptations
-design
an animal -think
about interview questions based on what we’ve done so far -mobiles |
Adaptations
-BIRDS
learning centers -mobiles |
Change
-Change
across time: “Turtle/Beaver” story -seasonal
adaptations -Drastic
change: dinosaurs -mobiles |
Human Change
-natural
changes chart -city
animals -Habitat
QUIZ -assign
paired interview groups -mobiles
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Human change
-human
changes chart -“Wolf-Island”
story (again) -list
of products we get from animals, plants -list
of endangered animals (like day 1) -mobiles |
Loss of Habitat
-food
web game and habitat loss -interview
plans due Tuesday -mobiles |
Gone Forever
-peregrine
falcon activity -endangered
species fact sheets -mobiles |
Gone Forever
-hand
in copy of interview plans -mobiles |
TEST/INTERVIEW
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TEST/INTERVIEW
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TEST/INTERVIEW
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Introduce
Project
-all
you will learn this month will help you to do the project Pretest
(GRIDS, MONEY, PERIMETER, AREA, VOLUME, CAPACITY, MASS) |
Maps/Grids
-look
at pretest (GRIDS) -make
a map of the class with no tools to help you -in
journals: “how could we have made a better map”? |
Maps/Grids
-show
a good map of the class on board/chart how
does a grid help you make a better map? -play
grid game |
Money
-look
at pretest (MONEY) -pet
prices worksheets (spend
under $50, show your calculations, provide for the needs of your pet) |
Money
-calculator
practice -money
game (who
won? why did they win? how many items did you buy? how close were you to
$10?) |
Measurement
-look
at pretest (UNITS) -show
examples of non-standard units -show
ridiculous examples of standard units -appropriate
units scavenger hunt |
Measurement
-geoboards:
design floor plans -describe
your floor plan to a partner; they must recreate it according to your
instructions (no peeking!) |
Measurement -look
at pretest (PERIMETER AND AREA) -perimeter:
make a fenced in area for an imaginary hamster (provide
for its needs, choose a polygon for each area, measure the perimeter and area
of each structure) |
Measurement
-area:
non-standard units why
do we need standard units? -area
work in Math Quest |
Measurement
-show how to get area of irregular
shapes
-help
farmer betty make a farm using cm grid paper (show
perimeter and area of three farm-proposals) |
Volume
-look
at pretest (VOLUME) -cm
(width, length) to cm3 (width, length, height) -fill
up different areas with little cubes: what’s the area? what’s the volume? How
are these 2 concepts related? |
Volume -paper
boxes: fill the bottom with the cm cubes, and then estimate the volume of the
whole structure |
Volume -SALT
displacement experiments |
Capacity
-look
at pretest (CAPACITY) -relate
volume to capacity; show an example of how its not the same -knowing
that 1cm3 = 1mL, guess the capacity of various containers -convert
mL to L |
Capacity -appropriate
units of capacity -eyedroppers
and pennies: what’s the capacity?? |
Mass
-look
at pretest (MASS) -look
at balances (need small flat rulers); balance things, why did it balance? |
Mass -Estimate
and record own and group members weight (body scale) |
Mass-mass
work in Math Quest |
PROJECTS
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PROJECTS
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Interviews
-relate
this to the final project in science (habitats) -do
a mock interview with teacher: what went wrong? -what
is an interview? -how
do you get information? |
Interviews -prepare
interview with classmate -interview
with classmate -compare
what you found out with what you expected to find out |
Editing -write
a short paragraph -have
friend edit using checklist |
Editing
-rewrite
the paragraph according to the editing |
Folktales
(general)
-read
a story to class -introduce
folklore (all types) but lets focus on animal tales -read
3 stories and classify them |
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Folktales (general) -read a story to class -find
one of each type with resources in class; classify them (exploration) |
Fables
-read
a story to the class -STORYMAP
(theme) -compare
stories with the same theme |
Fables
-read
a story to the class -STORYMAP
(theme) -compare
stories with the same these |
Fables
-read
a story to the class -STORYMAP
(plot) -make
a class fable using a plot analysis -idioms/phrases
activity |
Fables
-read
a story to the class -STORYMAP
(plot) -make
own fable (with a picture – in fable style) -trade
and edit, don’t correct |
Pourquoi
-read
a story to the class STORYMAP
(character) -find
own pourquoi tales, and describe the characters (“say and do” sheet) |
Pourquoi
-read
a story to the class STORYMAP
(character) -animals
and human traits activity |
Pourquoi
-read
a story to the class -good
openings -make
own pourquoi tale (story board it – with a few pictures) -trade
and edit, correct (Display
these) |
Trickster: “too
clever”
-read
a story to the class -
good closings “Too
clever” tricksters “Bad”
tricksters |
Trickster:
“weak”
-read
a story to the class -good
middles; climax, plot twists (trick!) Br’er
Rabbit: compare easy, hard, hardest versions |
Trickster:
“powerful”
-read
a story to the class -these
are often like myths |
Trickster
-read
a story to the class -make
own trickster tale (storyboard it – with a few pictures) -trade
and edit, correct, teacher, correct |
Sharing
-you
have 3 animal tales; lets share them in groups |
Compare
-show
a fairy tale, a myth, and a legend: how are these different from the kinds of
stories we have just learned about? |
Extra
-environmental
poems -describe
a pet |