living things adapt environment

ALearningSequencefor‘LivingThingsadapttothe

environment’unit.

Level3

SMRPeninsulaSubRegionUltranetCoaches;JonathanHall,TanyaMoran&StephenDaly

CREATEAFOLDERWITHOVERVIEW

ANDASSIGNFEEDBACK•  IntheLearningTaskstool,Classtab,teacherscancreateafoldertoorganiseLearningItemsand/orlearningsequences.

•  YoucanselecttoprovideanOverviewandFeedbackforthecontentsofthefolder.

ThefollowingslidesarefoundontheUltranetSupportSite.

DiscussionBrainstorm

•  ADiscussionItemisatypeofServiceLearningItem,whichallowsstudentstoenterpoststoadiscussionforum.

•  OverthetermstudentswillbuildontheirexisKngknowledgeabouthowLivingThingsadapttotheenvironment.TeachersandstudentscanrecordtheinstrucKons/reflecKonsofeachacKvityaswellastypethesein.

•  InorderforstudentstobeabletodothistheywillneedtoknowhowtologontotheUltranetandnavigatetotheacKvity.

•  ComputerswillneedtohaveamicrophoneaMached.

StepOne

NOTE:

Whenfollowingthestepsonthefollowingslidesmakesurethatyouhaveclickedontheunitfolder‘Environment’.

ThefollowingslidecanbefoundontheUltranetSupportSite.

Andthenselectthefolder‘Environment’beforeclickingon‘New’.

Title=Brain

storm

JournalAcKviKesCanitadapt?

•  AJournalItemisatypeofServiceLearningItem,whichallowsstudentstoenterjournalentriesintotheirpersonaljournal.

•  OverthetermstudentscouldrecordortypeintheirreflecKonstoexperimentsandlearningbeingexploredintheclassroom.

•  InorderforstudentstobeabletodothistheywillneedtoknowhowtologontotheUltranetandnavigatetotheacKvity.

•  ComputerswillneedtohaveamicrophoneaMached.

StepOne

NOTE:

Whenfollowingthestepsonthefollowingslidesmakesurethatyouhaveclickedontheunitfolder‘Environment’.

ThefollowingslidecanbefoundontheUltranetSupportSite.

Andthenselectthefolder

‘Environment’beforeclickingon‘New’.

Title=Ques

Kon

PossibleJournalQuesKons

•  WhatisadaptaKon?•  Howcananimalsliveinsuchdifferentplacesintheworld?

•  Whydoesacamelhavenostrilswhichcanclose?

•  Whatissospecialaboutafrogshead?

•  Howarelargesnakessuchaspythonsabletoswallowpreythatisbiggerthantheirownheads?

TaskCreaCngaplay

•  ATaskItemisatypeofServiceLearningItem,whichprovidesstudentswithinstrucKonsrelatedtoanofflinetaskorotherrelatedlearningitems.

•  StudentswillformsmallgroupsandwriteaplayscriptdemonstraKngtheadaptaKonofananimalandpresenttheirplaytotheclass.StudentswillbeencouragetopresenttheseasanimaKons.

•  InorderforstudentstobeabletodothistheywillneedtoknowhowtowriteascriptandhaveKmetoputtogethertheirplay/animaKontopresenttotheclass.

StepOne

NOTE:

Whenfollowingthestepsonthefollowingslidesmakesurethatyouhaveclickedontheunitfolder‘Environment’.

ThefollowingslidecanbefoundontheUltranetSupportSite.

Andthenselectthefolder‘Environment’beforeclickingon‘New’.

CopyLearningItems

•  Alllearningtasksandfoldersneedtobetransferredfromyourpersonalplanningfoldertoyourclassfolder.

ThefollowingslidecanbefoundontheUltranetSupportSite.