Overview and Background: Unit: Life Cycle of Living Things

Arlene Fasbender : Cheney USD 268

Science. : Science. : Science.

Cheney : Grades 2 - 2 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Life Cycle of Living Things
Topics:	Life science
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
Date Revised:

Other Designers:

Summary:
This unit will look at the life cycle of living things.

Print Materials Needed:
Animals / Kay Davies. Steck-Vaughn, 1992.

Resources:
Assorted library books about animals

Resource Attachments:	http://www.cheney268.com/Curriculum/rubrics/Speaking/k-2_Speaking.htm
Internet Resource Links: Link 1:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/ Link 2:http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/cycles/animal.html Link 3:http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/ Link 4:http://www.midcoast.com.au/~ttc/Change.html

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:	Science, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Technology
Standard(s):	KS Life Science - Observe life cycle of different living things. KS Reading: -Read expository material at an independent level. -Use the encyclopedia and Internet to process information. KS Writing: -Use graphic organizer. -Create rough drafts to be edited and revised. -Use peer editing and self editing skills. Local Speaking: -Understands and applies a speaking process that produces a coherent message. -Demonstrates appropriate delivery techniques. Local Technology - Creates a hypermedia presentation with HyperStudio or PowerPoint.

Understandings:
user	All living things have need air, water, and food to survive. All living things have a life cycle that they go through from birth to death.

Essential Questions:
User	How do living things reproduce? What do the life spans of living things differ? How does diet and habitat affect the life cycle of living things? How do living things change and grow?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
-recognize and know that all living things have a life cycle.

S
-use books and web sites to research information about their living thing.
-give a speech about their living thing's life cycle.
-create a PowerPoint to use as a visual aid for their speech.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
The student will give a speech about the life cycle of their living thing and use a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid. A speaking rubric will be used for assessment purposes.

Task/Prompt: Life Cycles

Type: Performance Task

Topics: Life science

Summary:
The student will give a speech about the life cycle of their living thing and use a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid.
District Speaking Rubric: http://www.cheney268.com/Curriculum/rubrics/Speaking/k-2_Speaking.htm

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:

Resource Attachments: http://www.cheney268.com/2nd/Fasbender/LifeCyclesResearchOrganizer.htm

Internet Resource Links:
Link 1: http://
Link 2: http://
Link 3: http://
Link 4: http://
Link 5: http://

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Student Directions:
You are an employee at the Sedgwick County Zoo. Your job is to educate visitors about animals and their life cycles. You need to select an animal and research it, collecting and recording information about the life cycle of your animal. Then create a PowerPoint presentation that you will give to visitors to the zoo. Your presentation should be accurate and organized. Use the oral presentation rubric when you practice your presentation: (http://www.cheney268.com/Curriculum/rubrics/Speaking/k-2_Speaking.htm).

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
Brainstorm the different stages of life cycles and how different plants and animals go through the stages.

H
Read book Animals / by Kay Davies about the life cycles of animals.

E
Introduce living things through discussion.
Show students PowerPoint presentations of life cycles as examples.
Practice with students on how to look for information on a web site.
Give the students a list of web sites to visit and let them search the sites to choose a living thing to do their speech on.
Provide research organizer - http://www.cheney268.com/2nd/Fasbender/LifeCyclesResearchOrganizer.htm.
Teach the students how to make a PowerPoint.

R
Peer review of the content of their presentation slides.
Practice in pairs their presentation.

E
Oral presentation over the life cycle of their chosen animal with the PowerPoint presentation.
District Speaking Rubric: http://www.cheney268.com/Curriculum/rubrics/Speaking/k-2_Speaking.htm

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