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Lesson #
Title of Lesson Bloom’s Taxonomy
Gardner’s MI(s) Additive
1 Animals’ Basic Needs
Knowledge Visual/SpatialNaturalist &Interpersonal
GraphicOrganizer
2 The Cycle of Life Knowledge &Comprehension
Verbal/Linguistic Visual/Spatial &Interpersonal
Web 2.0Clip
3 Resemblance Comprehension & Application
Visual/SpatialNaturalistBodily Kinesthetic
Manipulatives& Graphic Organizer
4 A Matter of Survival
Analysis Visual/SpatialMusical/RhythmicIntrapersonal
Scavenger Hunt
5 To Be EndangeredOr Not to Be
Synthesis Visual/SpatialLogical/MathematicalExistentialist
Spreadsheet & Graph
6 Animals’ Interdependence
Comprehension & Evaluation
IntrapersonalVisual/Spatial
Manipulatives
Table of Contents
Overview of Unit
United States Animals MST Unit seeks to promote critical thinking and scientific inquiry through highly engaging and fun lessons that will enable students not only to learn about Living Organisms, but also to learn about the importance of protecting our environment which is also animals’ environment.
ResemblanceLesson # 3Bloom’s Taxonomy: Level 2: Comprehension, Level: 3 Application.Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence: Visual/Spatial, Naturalist, and Bodily/Kinesthetic.
Children’s Literature: Animals That Ought To Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets by Richard Michelson
Motivational Constructivist Question: Do baby animals look like their parents?
ResemblanceLesson # 3
What will I be when I grow up? http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AnimalsTwobyTwo/activities/findtheparent.html
Students will try to match pictures of baby animals with their parents.!!
ResemblanceLesson # 3
Activity Using Manipulaties:
Students will sort and classify animal figures in different categories. The first given category is to group baby animals with their corresponding parents. Then, students can create subgroups of their choice by dividing the groups into mammals, birds and carnivores, herbivores, etc.
ResemblanceLesson # 3
Graphic Organizer
Students will use a graphic organizer to represent/show all the groups and subgroups they created.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Level 4: AnalysisGardner’s Multiple Intelligence: Visual/Spatial, Musical/Rhythmic, Intrapersonal. Children’s Literature: Do You Know Us: Guess Who Rhymes about North American Animals by Melvin Taks.
A Matter of SurvivalLesson # 4
Add lots of pictures
Motivational Constructivist
Question:
How do animals survive when it is extremely cold or extremely hot?
Scavenger Hunt
Names:Scavenger Hunt Questionnaire1. How does environmental condition affect animals?2. How do some animals cope with really hot temperatures?
Give examples.3. How do some animals cope with really cold
temperatures? Give examples.4. If environmental conditions are not the right ones for a
group of animals, what can happen?5. How can an animal habitat get destroyed?6. How do animals become endangered?7. List ten United States animals that are endangered
8. Which animal is at the top of the list of endangered animals? How did this animal become endangered?
9. How many Species of mammals are currently endangered and threatened? List separately.
10. How many Species of birds are currently endangered and threatened? List separately.
11. How many Species of reptiles are currently endangered and threatened? List separately.
12. How many species of amphibians are currently endangered and threatened? List separately.
13. How many species of fish are currently endangered and threatened? List separately.
14. How many species of insects are currently endangered and threatened? List separately.
15. What should be done to protect endangered animals? List at least four things.
16. Choose one animal and tell how its population has decreased or increased over time.
To Be Endangered or Not to BeLesson # 5
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Level 5: Synthesis
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence: Visual/Spatial, Logical/Mathematical, and Existentialist.
Children’s’ Literature: The American Buffalo: The story of the Habits, Hunting, and Near Extinction of the Most Iconic Of American Animals by Anon.
What happens when animals’ needs are not met by environmental conditions?
Motivational Constructivist Question:
Students will use some information collected during the scavenger hunt
To create a spreadsheet and a congruent graph to represent the
data. Current Status
GroupEndangered Threatened
Mammals 70 14
Birds 76 16
Reptiles 13 23
Species Species
Endangered Threatened0
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Endangered & Threatened Animal Groups in the United States
Mammals Birds
Reptiles
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