Final Presentation Third Grade and Science

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Final PresentationThird Grade and Science

• By
• Lindsay Morales

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Background Information School Weemes (Lenicia
B.) Elementary2000-2001 Class Size
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Background InformationTechnology

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• Number
• Computers 274
• Students per Computer 6.0
• Classrooms with Internet 1

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Background InformationStudents

• Third Grade
• Ages 8- 9
• Number of Students 24
• Subject Science
• Lesson

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Content Standards3rd Grade Life Science

• Students know examples of diverse life forms in
  different environments, such as oceans, deserts,
  tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands.
• Students know living things cause changes in the
  environment in which they live some of these
  changes are detrimental to the organism or other
  organisms, and some are beneficial.

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Lesson OneStudy of plant life in different
Environments

• Lesson Objective
• Students will explore different types of
  eco-systems to determine what kind of plant life
  lives there.
• Motivation
• Show students a short video from the Discovery
  Channel on different types of eco-systems.

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Lesson One Study of plant life in different
Environments

• Learning Procedure
• Brief Discussion of video and different kinds of
  eco-systems.
• Review of the different forms of plant life.
• Students are put into groups of 4 and are
  assigned an eco-system to explore.
• In a few sentences, students will describe the
  kind of eco-system assigned to them and give
  two-three different types of plants that survive
  there.

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Lesson One Study of plant life in different
Environments

• Feedback/Assessment
• Each group of students is required to draw a
  picture of the assigned eco-system and the types
  of plants that live there.
• Upon finishing the picture a short presentation
  of the picture will take place with every member
  of the group contributing.

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Lesson Two Study of animal life in different
Environments

• Lesson Objective
• Students will explore different types of
  eco-systems to determine what kind of animals
  live there.
• Motivation
• Pictures of different types of animals will be
  passed around the classroom so that each student
  can take a few minutes to look at each animal.

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Lesson Two Study of animal life in different
Environments

• Learning Procedure
• Brief review of the eco-systems and plants
  studied the day before.
• Review of the knowledge about animals the
  students already know about.
• Students return to the groups of four assigned
  the day before and explore what types of animals
  live in the eco-system previously assigned.
• In a few sentences, students provide two-three
  animals that live in the eco-system and one-two
  characteristics of the animal (e.g. carnivore,
  herbivore etc.).

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Lesson Two Study of animal life in different
Environments

• Feedback/Assessment
• Students will add the animals into the picture of
  the eco-system drawn the previous day.
• Students will give another short presentation
  reviewing which eco-system each group was
  assigned, the types of plants that are found
  there, and the addition of the types of animals
  that live there along with a few characteristics
  of the animals.
• Every group member will contribute.

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Lesson ThreeThe Food Chain

• Lesson Objective
• Students will explore different food chains that
  animals are a part of and the effects each food
  chain has on the environment.
• Motivation
• Ask each student what is their favorite kind of
  food and what is their least favorite kind of
  food.

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Lesson ThreeThe Food Chain

• Learning Procedure
• Brief lecture about different kinds of animals in
  terms of carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores.
• Review of what the students already know of the
  subject.
• In the same groups of four, students are assigned
  to research the animals chosen the day before to
  find out what type of animal it classifies as
  (e.g. carnivore, herbivore, omnivore).
• In a few sentences tell what the animal is
  classified and what it eats as well as predict
  what might happen if what the animal eats no
  longer exists.

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Lesson ThreeThe Food Chain

• Feedback/Assessment
• Students will add the things that each animal
  eats to the picture drawn the previous days if it
  is not already on the picture.
• Students will give another, longer, final
  presentation on what they learned about the
  eco-systems, the plants, the animals, and what
  each animal eats.
• Every member must contribute.

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Technology

• Television/Video
• Show students footage of different eco-systems.
• Computers/Internet to research the eco-systems.

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Assessing Student Learning

• Presentations of the material learned in class.
• Students could write a short paragraph about what
  they learned during the lesson as a final report.
• Objective Testing

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Blackboard Discussion Board

• In progress

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References

• California State Board of Education, Academic
  Standards
• http//www.cde.ca.gov/board/
• Ed-Data Website
• http//www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/
• Pro-Teacher sample lesson plans
• http//www.proteacher.com/110003.shtml