Students participate in a brainstorm
about water and its importance and then rotate to three
different activity stations to explore some of the
interesting properties of water. The Fill’er
Up activity provides students the opportunity to apply
what they have learned about predictions and how scientists
work, as they discover the concept of volume.
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The concept of habitat is introduced
and the students work together in small groups to create
living, desktop ponds.
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Students are introduced to
a large construction paper pond, the center stage for
the upcoming Pond Drama. They help to populate the
pond by creating colorful 3-d paper and clay models
of the plants and animals that live there.
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The students compare ponds and the
ocean as they make a bulletin board. They then have
the opportunity
to visit other classrooms in the school and ask the “experts” on
those habitats about the organisms that live there.
The class comes back together to debrief their grade/habitat
visits and discuss what the animals in one group or
habitat have in common.
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| Students are taken on a “virtual
tour” of their teacher’s backyard as they
look at a map of the teacher’s yard and listen
to a narrative description of the map. Students then
help make a map of their own schoolyard, adding all of
the elements that they can remember to an outline of
the schoolyard. They are taken on a trip around the school
and additional items are added to the map, including
litter if any is found. |
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