Search: Moderate, 3.2.2 Show social responsibility by participating actively with others in learning situations and by contributing questions and ideas during group discussions.
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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| Endangered Animals Trading Cards | This lesson is designed to help students understand that they can apply their knowledge about endangered animals to helping make a difference in a real-world context by spreading awareness and raising money for a cause. | 1, 2 | |
| Creepy, Crawly Insects - Where Can I Find Out More? | First and second grade students, currently studying insects in Science, will visit the library to research various insects, take notes on important information, create a presentation, and share findings with peers. Students design presentations to address the following essential questions: What makes this creature an insect? What do I want to tell other students about this insect? | 1, 2 | |
| From Tadpole to Frog | This unit is designed for students to understand the life process of the frog. Using Science centers, the students will investigate how frogs change, what they need to survive, and the offspring they produce. Essential questions: What are the life needs of frogs? How are the offspring alike or different from their parents? | K | |
| Genres: Let’s Make Comparisons | Students compare poetry, folk tales and fables in respect to their genre characteristics. The essential question framing this unit is: What genre similarities can be found in poetry, folk tales and fables? | 3 | |
| Vegetables | The students will have a question and access information to answer it. The students will present the answer to the class using a presentation paper. Essential questions: What is a vegetable? Where do you find information? How do you record needed information? How would you best design a presentation paper? | K | |
| Introduction to Cyberbullying | The lesson is designed to teach students to recognize cyberbulling in all its forms (email, chat, text and website); to respond to cyberbullies; to prevent being the victim of a cyberbully; and when to inform an adult of cyberbullying. | 3 | |
| Community Helpers | In a theme unit on community helpers, Kindergarten students will name a range of community helpers and be able to describe how they perform their major roles. The essential questions for this unit include: Who are community helpers? How do they help us? | K | |
| Two Truths and a Lie | "Two Truths and a Lie" is an ice-breaker game where people tell 3 things about themselves and the people listening guess which is the lie. This research lesson provides a more in-depth take on the game so students can learn content, develop research skills, and evaluate accuracy of web information and find discrepencies in sources. Speaking and writing skills can be incorporated. Essential Question: What makes an Internet site valid and reliable? | 11, 12 | |
| Animal Research | Following a class study of the characteristics of animals students will select on animal of their choice to research. Essential questions: What characteristics do you already know about your animal? How can you find information about the animal you have selected? How is this animal the same or different from ones that the entire class studied? How can you share your information with others? | K | |
| Diary of a Worm/Fiction and Non-Fiction | The essential concept of this lesson was designed for the student to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction and to compare the habitat relationships between worm, spider, and fly. The Essential Questions: What does it mean if a book is fiction or non-fiction? How would you explain the benefits a worm has on the world? What would happen if fly, spider, and worm were all friends? | 1, 2 |