| TEACHER'S LESSON PLAN |
| Performance Standrards: A.Identify characteristics
of a desert. B.Classify and compare living and nonliving states of matter
in the desert. C.Identify and illustrate basic needs and adaptations of
plants and animals in the desert. |
| Essential Skills: A.Describe a desert. B.Classify
and compare living and nonliving states of mater in a desert. C.Illusstrate
basic needs and adaptations of plants and animals in the desert. |
| Learning Objectives: See Essential Skills |
| Student Activity 1: The students will brainstorm
words that describe the desert. After defining and discussing the characteristics
of a desert the class will create a web. Each student will re-create a
web on Inspiration using the descriptive words of a desert. |
| Student Assessment: The web created on Inspiration. |
| Additional Resources: (Resources) Examples: Inspiration
Web, NISD First Grade Science Curriculum Guide(Desert Unit) |
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| Student Activity 2: After defining and discussing
living and nonliving, students will write a list of the characteristics
of a living and nonliving thing. Students will create a T-Chart on KidPix
to classify living and nonliving things in the desert. |
| Student Assessment:Teacher observation, student
created T-Chart. |
| Additional Resources:KidPix, NISD First Grade Science
Curriculum Guide (Desert Unit) |
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| Student Activity 3:As a whole group the students
will answer the questions on the Animals of the Desert Subject Sampler.
The teacher will write answers on chart paper. The students will choose
thier favorite desert animal and show how it survives in the desert by
drawing a picture on KidPix. They will write 2 sentences describing that
animal. Using KidPix, a slide show will be created for all students to
view. |
| Student Assessment:Teacher observation, student
drawn picture |
| Additional Resources:KidPix, Subject Sampler |
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| Student Activity 4:After viewing the slide show,
the students will tally the number of each animal to use to make a graph
on Graphers. |
| Student Assessment:Graph |
| Additional Resources:KidPix slide show, Graphers |
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| Other Resources: |
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| http://odin/tiftechdoc/Hall/desertsubsampler.htm |
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