Overview and Background: Unit: Habitats

Name:  Joni Watkins

 

Cheney Elementary : Grades 2

 

Title:

Habitats

Topics:

Science, Habitats, Speaking

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Summary:
Students will look at different animals and the habitats that they require.

 

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Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

 

State:

KS

Title:

Science, Speaking, Technology

Standard(s):

Standard 3: Life Science (K-2)

Benchmark 1: All students will develop an understanding of the characteristics of living things.  Through direct experiences, students will observe living things, their life cycles and their habitats.

Indicator

3.        Observe living things in various environments.

 

Speaking:

Local Speaking Standard (K-2)

Grade Level/Course Standard 3:              Understand and apply a speaking process that produces a coherent message.

1.          Speak in a sentence to express a complete thought.

2.          Share ideas that are related to the topic.

3.          Use sequence and detail to organize the message.

 

Technology Standard(s):

Students – (ISTE K-2) #2. Use a variety of media and technology resources for directed and independent learning activities. (1, 3)

#8. Create developmentally appropriate multimedia products with support from teachers, family members, or student partners. (3)

Teachers – (ISTE) III.  Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum.  Teachers implement curriculum plans, that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning.

Teachers:

A.          Facilitate technology-enhance experiences that address content standards and student technology standards.

B.          Use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.

 

Understandings:

Inhabitants can only survive in habitats that meet their needs.

Each habitat will support specific inhabitants.

 

Essential Questions:

What are the characteristics of different habitats?

What characteristics of habitats determine what animals can live there?

 

Knowledge and Skills:

K

All living things live in certain environments.

 

S

Use books and web sites to research information about a particular habitat

Use Kidspiration to organize information

Create a PowerPoint to use as a visual aid for a speech

Give a speech about their habitat

 

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

 

Assessment Summary:
The student will give a speech about a particular habitat that they have chosen, and use a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid.

Student Directions:

You are a tour guide at the Sedgwick County Zoo.  You are in charge of a particular area.  Your job is to inform all visitors that come into your pavilion about the characteristics of that particular habitat and how the animals have adapted to live there.

Rubric:

Evaluate using the District Speaking Rubric:  http://www.cheney268.com/Curriculum/rubrics/Speaking/k-2_Speaking.htm

 

Evaluate the PowerPoint slide show by using the PowerPoint Rubric - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/view_rubric.php3?id=776405

 

Evaluate the Kidspiration graphic organizer rubric - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/view_rubric.php3?id=776442

 

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Habitat Graphic Organizer http://www.cheney268.com/2nd/Habitats/HabitatsGraphicOrganizer.htm

 

 

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

 

Learning Activities:

Learning Activities:

Hook – Students take a field trip to the Sedgwick County Zoo.  They visit all of the different pavilions at the zoo and observe all of the different habitats.

Teaching Activities –

1.        Practice with students on how to look for information on the enchanted learning web site.

2.        Go to enchantedlearning.com and view a variety of habitats and their characteristics.

3.        Choose a habitat that interests you.

4.        Read about your habitat on enchanted learning.

5.        Choose a book with information about your habitat and read it.

6.        *Review how to use Kidspiration and have them build a graphic organizer showing four characteristics of their particular habitat.

7.        Pick an animal that lives in your habitat.

8.        Decide what special characteristics of that animal help it live in that habitat.

9.        *Add another link to your Kidspiration organizer telling which animal you chose and the characteristics that help it live in that habitat.

 

Tech Activities:

1.        *Show students an example PowerPoint presentation about a habitat.

2.        *Review how to make a PowerPoint.

3.        *Make a PowerPoint presentation using the information on your Kidspiration graphic organizer.  (5 to 8 slides)