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P. 37R Grades K-2 Science Module 5
ANIMAL DIVERSITY
CONTEXTUNIT TOPIC: Animal Diversity
The fifth module of Grades K-2 Science is connected to student’s ideas about the characteristics of organisms and how they develop from basic concepts of living and nonliving things. Students are provided opportunities to investigate animals and how they compare to one another. Teachers should have students make observations about how the offspring of animals compare to their parents.
The module integrates literacy skills development as students read texts about the different animals and developing content for class slideshows or books about animal diversity. As part of the activities relevant to this module and connected to the CDOS standards, students can assume roles of a scientist.
The sample activities outlined are designed not only to elicit performances of content area thinking skills and behaviors but also to provide opportunities for students to engage with, read and/or use informational texts about the concepts explored in the module. Extension of this module might include community field trips or class trips to the zoo to reinforce concepts related to animal diversity.
Throughout time, animals have changed depending on their environment. In learning, how organisms have been successful in their habitats, students should observe and record information about animals. They should begin to recognize how differences among individuals within a species can help an organism or population to survive. Students at this level will identify the behaviors and physical adaptations that allow organisms to survive in their environment. Students describe animal life cycles and life spans.
Science notebooks are used to help students organize information, document experiences, data and thinking, and to record illustrations. Each notebook page should be devoted to a new activity. Entries in the science notebook can consist of student drawings; simple writing, including individual words or short phrases; cut out sentence strips and picture symbols; and visual and tactile artifacts. Sentence starters and frames, focus questions, basic diagrams and charts can be provided to the students.
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Conceptual Understandings drive the learning plans and activities that are addressed in this module:
Each animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
Animals need air, water, and food in order to live and thrive. In order to survive in their environment, plants and animals must be adapted to
that environment. Plants and animals closely resemble their parents and other individuals in their
species. Some traits of living things have been inherited (e.g., color of flowers and number
of limbs of animals). Plants and animals can transfer specific traits to their offspring when they
reproduce. Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life,
development into an adult, reproduction as an adult, and eventually death. Each generation of animals goes through changes in form from young to adult.
This completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
Each kind of animal goes through its own stages of growth and development during its life span.
The length of time from an animal’s birth to its death is called its life span. Life spans of different animals vary.
Note Literacy Skills:
Class and Individual Books: To support the development of the class or individual books on matter, prior to beginning the module teachers may choose to develop a Table of Contents for the books.
Food Allergies/Allergies: Prior to engaging students in cooking activities or with food products, please identify and note any allergies that students may have.
Science concept: The concept of animal diversity is introduced to students. Though parts of the topics may be complex an introduction, we choose to acknowledge that students are introduced and exposed to the ideas and related material through cartoons such as Mammals, Vertebrates on BrainPop and Animal Diversity slideshow on ScienceNetLinks.
ASSESSMENTFORMATIVE ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:
Pictures of students participating in various classroom lessons and activities
Data collection
Student work samples, as appropriate
Science Notebooks
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PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENT TASK
To prepare for this performance assessment, the teacher gathers pictures and videos on
animals. Additionally, the teacher prepares students for an animal parade where they
display costumes created based on the various animals they are learning about.
Task Directions for Students:
The principal has told you that the class will be responsible for a science project about
understanding animal diversity to display at our school science fair. There are many
different animals that you can find all over the world. Your teacher does not know what
animals to pick. To show off how animals are the same and different you are going to
create a display about the various types of animals. We want to see an animal that has
feathers, and animals that have scales, and all the other animals you studied during the
month.
Level D:When presented with two or three animal pictures students will sort pictures into
mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish and insects. Students will use these projects to
create a display for the fair.
Level C:Students will create a photo explaining the differences between two animals. Students use
a tri-fold board. They will place a picture of an animal on one side and a picture of their
second animal on the other. They will complete a chart with the similarities and
differences. The similarities can be listed in the middle of the tri-fold board and the
differences listed under each individual animal.
Level B:
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Students will create a shoebox diorama on animals to display for the fair. The diorama
must contain one habitat and pictures or models of the various animals that would live in
that habitat. Each student is encouraged to select a different habitat (i.e.- dessert,
wetlands, ocean, grassland, fresh water, forest, tundra, grass land, coral reef, ect.)
STANDARDSELA COMMON CORE ANCHOR STANDARDS:ELA/Literacy
RI.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.1.2: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.1.4: Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and
phrases in a text.
RI.1.6: Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations &
information provided by words in a text.
RI 1.7: Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe the key ideas.
RI.1.10: With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for
Grade 1.
W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some
facts about the topic and provide some sense of closure.
L.1.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and
phrases based on Grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibility from an array of
strategies.
L.1.4A: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
L.1.5.A: Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts
the category represents.
L1.5.B: Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird
that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).
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SL.1.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about Grade 1
topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL.1.2: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information
presented orally or through other media.
SL.1.3: Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional
information or clarify something that is not understood.
Mathematics
MP.2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP.5: Use appropriate tools strategically.
SCIENCE KEY IDEAS: ANIMAL DIVERSITY
Key Idea 1: Living things are both similar to and different from each other and
from nonliving things. LE.
Key Idea 2: Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result
in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring.
Key Idea 3: Individual organisms and species change over time.
Key Idea 4: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and
development
CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Standard 2.1: Integrated Learning
Integrated learning encourages students to use essential academic concepts, fact, and
procedures in applications related to life skills and the world of work. This approach
allows students to see the usefulness of the concepts that they are being asked to learn
and to understand their potential application in the world of work.
Standard 3a. Universal Foundation Skills
2. Thinking Skills
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Thinking skills lead to problem solving, experimenting, and focused observation and
allow the application of knowledge to new and unfamiliar situations.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. How are animals alike and different?
2. How do animals adapt to their environments?
VOCABULARYNote: Over the course of the module, it is expected that students are exposed multiple
times to the vocabulary listed below as they participate in the learning plans and activities
of this module. However, it is not expected that students are able to use all the words in
the correct context.
Adapt
Air
Alike
Animal
Amphibians
Aquatic
Behavior
Bird
Birth
Butterfly
Caterpillar
Class
Classification
Cold Blooded
Death
Fish
Food
Fur
Genus
Genetic
Growth
Kingdom
Insects
Invertebrates
Leaf
Legs
Life Cycle
Life Span
Living
Lizard
Mammals
Metamorphosis
Marsupials
Monotremes
Nocturnal
Nonliving
Organism
Offspring
Parent
Plant
Predator
Placental Mammals
Pupa
Reptiles
Reproduce
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Different
Diversity
Endothermic
Family
Fins
Larva
Egg
Habitat
Sound
Species
Survival
Trait
Vertebrates
Water
Wing
LESSON STRANDS OVERVIEW1. Living things are both similar to and different from each other and from nonliving things2. Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring. 3. Individual organisms and species change over time. 4. The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.
Lesson Strand 1: Living things are both similar to and different from each other
and from nonliving things.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL D:
Attend to teacher presentation about the similarities and differences of animals
(e.g. look at similar animals and use photos to compare
kittens/cats/tigers/lions/panthers and find how they are the same. Use photos to
compare differences in animal such as shark/butterfly/dog/bird)
Attend to multimedia presentations on animal diversity from BrainPop, YouTube
and Discovery Education.
Engage with representations of different animals (e.g. touch a paper with feathers
(Bird) on it or touch a paper with scales (fish). Teacher will chart their responses
and explain why they are documenting/journaling their ideas, questions, and
observations.
Attend to teacher as (s)he reviews the concept that we are all scientists and
explains that we can be scientists by:
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Observation: Observing using pictures, photos and/or words. Teacher can
use a large set of eyes or a picture of eyes or large over-sized pair of clown
glasses to engage students in the process of observation.
Making a guess / prediction: teacher models how to make a prediction etc.
Teacher can create a giant question mark on a stick to hold up when
making a prediction.
Doing an experiment: importance of following the sequence, ordinal
numbers etc. (Teacher can demonstrate this process by having students put
on a white lab coat etc.)
Recording observations and results/what happened (Teacher can make a
giant graph or pie chart on a stick, or a large 3-D tactile graph to show this
process).
Drawing conclusions (teacher can create a giant magnifying glass to show
this process).
o Engage with adapted books (page turners, raised textures within the books,
larger print books, simple pictures, Smartboard book with sound effects
etc.) about animals and animal diversity.
o Engage with materials by participating in a “living vs. non-living”
scavenger hunt: (e.g. desks are nonliving, Fish are living, pencil is non-
living and people are living etc.).
o Create an Animal Classification List. (I.E. Mammals- Body Covering-
Hair or fur, Reptiles- Body Covering- Dry and Rough Skin, Amphibians-
Body Covering- Smooth and Wet Skin, Birds- Body Covering- Feathers,
Fish-Body Covering- Scales)
o Create “Animal” posters or slides of each student. Students dress their
favorite animals (Throughout the module, photos and/or slides will be
compiled for a final class slideshow on Animals.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL C:
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Participate in a read aloud of The Adventures of Marco and Polo, by Dieter Wiesmuller Participate in a real aloud of Z is for Zookeeper by Roland Smith Participate in a read aloud of What does an animal eat? By Lawerence F. Lowery Participate in a real aloud of Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins Participate in a read aloud of What do you do with a tail like this? By Robin Page
o Attend to teacher as (s)he reviews the concept that we are all scientists and
explains that we can be scientists by:
o Observation: Observing using pictures, photos and/or words,
teacher can use a large set of eyes or a picture of eyes or large
over-sized pair of clown glasses to engage students in the process
of observation)
o Making a guess /Prediction: teacher models how to make a
prediction (guess) etc. Teacher can create a giant question mark on
a stick to hold up when making a prediction.
o Doing an experiment: importance of following the sequence,
ordinal numbers etc. (Teacher can demonstrate this process by
having students put on a white lab coat etc.)
o Recording results/ what happened: Teacher can make a giant graph
or pie chart on a stick, or a large 3-D tactile graph to show this
process.
o Drawing conclusions (teacher can create a giant magnifying glass
to show this process).
o Attend to an informational text about animal diversity and answer
“WH” questions (e.g. generate a list of animals with scales,
animals with feathers, animals with tails, animals with fur, etc.)
o Attend to multimedia presentations on animal diversity and answer
“WH” questions about the presentation.
o Participate in a read aloud of What does an animal eat? By
Lawerence F. Lowery. After the read aloud have students make a
list of the different types of food animals eat. Generate and answer
“WH” questions about the text.
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o Complete a worksheet on identifying mammals. Students will write next
to worksheet if the animal is or is not a mammal.
o Participate in sorting objects and/or pictures of animals into their
classifications (fish, mammals, insects and birds). Pictures can be color
coded to represent classification.
o Participate in Animal Jeopardy Game: Teacher will provide information
about animals and students will guess what the mystery animal is.
o Students participate in writing a class book about Animals. Each student
will draw/write about a different animal they learned about. Students will
write about at least two different animals and create a class book on the
different types of animals.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL B: Participate in a read aloud of What Pet Should I Get? By Dr. Seuss
o Review science notebooks and establish a routine of using the
notebooks to record information and observations.
o Teacher will speak about the different type of animals. Students will
identify the animals that they know. Students will describe these
animals to the class. Teacher will review the various types of animals
and students will then share their ideas with teacher and the class will
compose a KWL chart to post in the class as a reference throughout
the unit.
o Participate in Animal Jeopardy Game: Teacher will provide
information about animals and students will guess what the mystery
animal is.
o Students participate in writing a class book about Animals. Each
student will draw/write about a different animal they learned about.
Students will write about at least two different animals and create a
class book on the different types of animals.
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o Students participate in playing a teacher created bingo game about
types of Animals. The teacher asks students to place a marker on an
example of a type of animal. Students put their bingo markers on a
picture representing the identified species of animal.
o Students will create a map of the globe. Around the world there are
seven continents; Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North
America and South America. Animals all live in different continents
around the world. Students will work on a project in which they will
identify the homes of animals they have been studying. They will
place a picture of the animals in the continent where you can find
them. Students will try to find at least two animals per continent.
o Students will be participating in the Create-An- Animal project.
Students will present that they are a zoologist and they discovered a
new species of animals. They will design a fact sheet highlighting this
new animal discovery. They will include the animals name, basic
needs, how the needs are met, where the animal lives and a colored
illustration of your animal and it habitat.
o Students will be participating in the Create-A-Plant project. Students
will pretend they are a botanist who has just discovered a new type of
plant. Design a fact sheet highlighting your new plant discovery
including your plants name, your plants basic needs, how the plants
needs are met and a colored illustration of your plant in its natural
habitat.
Lesson Strand 2: Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that
result in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL D:
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o Attend to teacher presentation about baby animals and their parents (e.g.
look at similar animals and use photos to compare kitten to a cat, a puppy
to a dog, etc.)
o Attend to multimedia presentations on animals and their young song from
BrainPop, YouTube and Discovery Education.
o Read the book baby Animals from Reading A-Z and answer “Wh”
questions about the baby animals.
o Engage with adapted books (page turners, raised textures within the books,
larger print books, simple pictures, Smartboard book with sound effects
etc.) about animals and animal diversity.
o Utilizing flash cards students will identify animals and their young.
o Students will create a hand and finger print representation of a bird for
mammas and their babies. Students will use yellow paint and make a hand
print and then four finger prints. Hand print should be in center of the page
and finger prints along the bottom of the page. Student can add a beak,
eyes and legs to the baby chicks and their parent. Students can then label
the parent and the baby.
o Students will participate in an animal matching board. They will match
pictures of an animal’s offspring to the correct parent.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL C:
Participate in a read aloud of Animal Babies by Harry McNaught
o Attend to a book about animal babies and answer “WH”
questions.
o Participate in a read aloud of Are you my mother? By P.D.
Eastman
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Students will complete an “Are you my mother”
worksheet matching the baby animals to their parents.
o After attending to a Youtube video about parents and their
young, students will complete a worksheet matching the names
of baby animals to their parents.
o Students will create a hand and finger print representation of a
bird for mammas and their babies. Students will use yellow
paint and make a hand print and then four finger prints. Hand
print should be in center of the page and finger prints along the
bottom of the page. Student can add a beak, eyes and legs to
the baby chicks and their parent. Students can then label the
parent and the baby.
o Students will complete a worksheet in which they draw a line
from the parent animal (picture) to their baby (picture).
o Participate in Animal Jeopardy Game: Teacher will provide a
fact about animals and students will guess if it is a parent or a
baby. Extra points if they can tell you the correct name of the
animal.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL B:
o After watching the YouTube video about parents and their young
students will be broken into groups. Each group will be assigned
an animal and it’s offspring. The group will draw a picture of the
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animals and have several characteristics of the animal visible. Then
groups will present their pictures to the class.
o Students participate in writing a class book animals babies and their
parents. Each student will draw/write about a different animal and
their parent they learned about. Students will include at least one fact
about the animal. Students will write about at least two different
animals and create a class book on the different types of animals.
o Participate in Animal Jeopardy Game: Teacher will provide a fact
about animals and students will guess if it is a parent or a baby. Extra
points if they can tell you the correct name of the animal.
o Students will complete a worksheet in which they draw a line from the
parent’s name to their baby name. (i.e.- cat to kitten, goose to gosling,
pig to piglet, horse to calf, etc.)
o Students will create a painting or drawing of an animal and its baby.
o Students will make a poster labeling all the different animals and their
young to hang in the classroom.
o Students will create a flip chart on a poster for other students on
animals and their young. Students can utilize pictures they find on the
internet (or pictures provided to them) of the different animals and
their young.
o Assign each student an animal or have them choose. Invite them to
create a poster showing the life cycle of that creature. (i.e.- frog,
ladybug, chick, butterfly)
o Discuss the ways that humans protect and care for their young and the
signals human babies/children use to communicate their needs to their
parents. Have students choose either an amazing protective parent or a
surprising tough baby and share about it in a short report, a poster, or a
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choices to direct students to some of the more interesting creatures.
(i.e.- Some animal parents have unusual or extraordinary strategies for
protecting their young. For example, Arowana (fish) fathers are mouth
brooders. They protect their young from predators by holding them in
their mouths. Baby animals also have ways to signal their needs to
their parents. Many baby birds have bright spots in their mouths that
scream “place food here” to the parent. Some baby animals have to be
scrappier than others to survive. Baby komodo dragons climb trees to
avoid predators that may include their own parents!)
Lesson Strand 3: Individual organisms and species change over time.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL D:o Students will participate in read aloud of Polar Animal Adaptations by
Lisa J. Amstutz. Students will match a picture of the type of
adaptation to the animal. (I.E.- thick fur to polar bear, blubber to seals,
etc.)
o Students will participate in read aloud of Rain Forest Animal
Adaptations by Lisa J. Amstutz. Students will match a picture of the
type of adaptation to the animal. (I.E.- chameleon will camouflage,
scarlet macaw has a strong beak, etc.)
o Teachers will show a brain pop movie on the Smart Board. This Brain
pop movie is about with natural selection.
(
https://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/naturalselec
tion/). Students will participate in a Smart Board Activity and match
all the animals that are the same.
o Teachers will show a brain pop movie on the Smart Board. This Brain
pop Movie is about animals and how they camouflage themselves.
(https://jr.brainpop.com/science/animals/camouflage/). Students will P37R Curriculum K-2 Science Module 5: Animal Diversity 15
participate in a Smart Board Activity and place animals into the
correct environment where they will be camouflaged.
o Students will create a piece of art highlighting the adaptations of
animals.
o Students will play an Animal Adaptations Bingo Game. Students will
have to dot the animal when they hear its adaptation.
o Students will go on a trip to the zoo and identify the different types of
animal adaptations with support from a teacher.
o Students will watch the video Adaptation on Flocabulary
(https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/adaptation/) and complete the
appropriate online activities.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL C:o Students will participate in read aloud of Polar Animal Adaptations by
Lisa J. Amstutz. Students will answer “wh” about the what
adaptations polar animals have.
o Students will participate in read aloud of Rain Forest Animal
Adaptations by Lisa J. Amstutz. Students will answer “wh” questions
about the what adaptations Rainforest animals have.
o Teachers will show a brain pop movie on the SmartBoard. This
Brainpop movie is about with natural selection.
(
https://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/naturalselec
tion/). Students answer “wh” questions about animal adaptations and
complete a worksheet identifying the different types of animal
adaptations.
o Teachers will show a brain pop movie on the Smart Board. This Brain
pop Movie is about animals and how they camouflage themselves.
(https://jr.brainpop.com/science/animals/camouflage/). Students will
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answer “wh” questions about animal camouflaging and complete a
worksheet finding the animals camouflaged in their environments.
o Students will create a piece of art picking one type of animal
adaptation.
o Students will go on a trip to the zoo and identify the different types of
animal adaptations.
o Students will play an Animal Adaptations Bingo Game. Students will
have to match the animal when they hear its adaptation.
o Students will watch the video Adaptation on Flocabulary
(https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/adaptation/).
Students will complete the fill in the blank and quiz.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL B:o Students will participate in read aloud of Polar Animal Adaptations by
Lisa J. Amstutz. Students will answer “wh” about the what
adaptations polar animals have.
Students will create a diagram of the animal highlighting the
adaptations that they have to survive in the polar region.
o Students will participate in read aloud of Rain Forest Animal
Adaptations by Lisa J. Amstutz. Students will answer “wh” about the
what adaptations Rainforest animals have.
Students will create a diagram of the animals highlighting the
adaptations they have to survive in the rain forest.
o Teachers will show a brain pop movie on the SmartBoard. This
Brainpop movie is about with natural selection.
(
https://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/naturalselec
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tion/). Students answer “wh” questions about animal adaptations and
complete the brain pop quiz online.
o Teachers will show a brain pop movie on the Smart Board. This Brain
pop Movie is about animals and how they camouflage themselves.
(https://jr.brainpop.com/science/animals/camouflage/). Students
answer “wh” questions about animal camouflage and complete the
brain pop quiz online.
o Students will create a piece of art highlighting the adaptations of
animals.
o Students will go on a trip to the zoo and identify the different types of
animal adaptations with support from a teacher.
o Students will create an Animal Adaptations Bingo Game for other
students. Students will have to research animal adaptations and create
it into a bingo board. They can then play the game and share it with
their classmates and other classes.
o Students will watch the video Adaptation on Flocabulary
(https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/adaptation/) and complete all the
online activities and quiz.
Lesson Strand 4: The continuity of life is sustained through
reproduction and development.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL D:o Students will view a video about life cycles for kids. This is a
wonderful way to introduce this strand.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pHav-3QZkI) Students answer
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questions and identify the different animals that go through a life
cycle. (i.e.- frog, butterfly, human, mosquito and bird)
o Students will view a video and listen to the Life Cycle Rap from
Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/life-cycles/). Students
will identify stages of a life cycle (born, growth, reproduction, death).
Students will also complete appropriate activities from the Flocabulary
website.
o Students will listen to the song from MightyKidsBooks called
Metamorphosis.
o Teachers will order butterflies to keep in their classrooms. Students
will participate in lessons on Butterflies. Teachers can create lessons
on the life cycle of the Butterfly.
o Students will participate in read aloud of The Life Cycle of an Apple
by Ruth Thompson.
Students will participate in a smart board activity matching
items displayed on the board to the proper stage in the life
cycle of an apple.
o Students will participate in read aloud of An Apples Life by Nancy
Dickmann.
Students will answer “wh” questions about the life cycle of an
Apple.
o Students will view the Pollination Rap from Flocabulary
(https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/pollination/). Students will identify
the flower, pistol and stamen. Students will also complete appropriate
work from Flocabulary’s website.
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o Teachers will order butterflies to keep in their classrooms. Students
will participate in lessons on Butterflies. Teachers can create lessons
on the life cycle of the Butterfly.
o Students will participate in read aloud of The Life Cycle of an Apple
by Ruth Thompson.
Students will participate in a smart board activity matching
items displayed on the board to the proper stage in the life
cycle of an apple.
o Students will participate in read aloud of An Apples Life by Nancy
Dickmann.
Students will complete a worksheet identifying the various
stages in the life cycle of an Apple.
o Students will view a video and listen to the Life Cycle Rap from
Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/life-cycles/). Students
will identify stages of a life cycle (born, growth, reproduction, death).
Students will also complete selected activities from the Flocabulary
website.
o Students will view the Pollination Rap from Flocabulary
(https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/pollination/). Students will answer
“wh” questions about pollination and complete selected work from
Flocabulary’s website.
LEARNING PLANS AND ACTIVITIES LEVEL B:o Teachers will order butterflies to keep in their classrooms. Students
will participate in lessons on Butterflies. Teachers can create lessons
on the life cycle of the Butterfly.
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o Students will participate in read aloud of The Life Cycle of an Apple
by Ruth Thompson.
Students will participate in a smart board activity where parts
of the life cycle of an apple are displayed on the smart board
and within the lesson the student must places these parts under
the correct life cycle stage.
o Students will participate in read aloud of An Apples Life by Nancy
Dickmann.
Students will complete a worksheet in which they name and
draw the life cycle of an apple.
o Students will view a video and listen to the Life Cycle Rap from
Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/life-cycles/). Students
will identify stages of a life cycle (born, growth, reproduction, death).
Students will also complete appropriate activities from the Flocabulary
website and the quiz.
o Students will view the Pollination Rap from Flocabulary
(https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/pollination/). Students will answer
“wh” questions about pollination and complete all work and quiz from
Flocabulary’s website.
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