Model Curriculum Unit-Habitats (ELA/Science) What Happens to Animals when Their Habitats Change?
Essential Questions Q1. What is a habitat? Q2. What happens to animals when their habitats change? Q3. How can people’s actions reverse changes in an animal’s habitat?
Standards 1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. 2. Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. 3. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. 4. Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. 5. Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text. 6. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. 7. Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
CEPA-Curriculum Embedded Performance Assessment Performance Task:Students will write an explanation about how/why the Arctic habitat is changing and what effect this change is having on polar bears. Using evidence from the texts they have read, students will explain what effect these changes in habitat are having on the polar bear. They will explain at least one thing they can do to protect the polar bear’s habitat and describe the connection between their action and the effect on the polar bear. Students will focus their writing on answering Essential Questions 2 and 3: What happens to animals when their habitats change? How can people’s actions reverse changes in an animal’s habitat? Goal: The goal is for students to demonstrate what they have learned about what happens to animals when their habitats change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inventions 1. Crazy Kid Inventions-http://www.boredpanda.com/kids-inventions-turned-into-reality-inventors-project-dominic-wilcox/ 2. Amazing Kid Inventions-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_CfFuDWQ8 3. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors 4. Brainpop-https://jr.brainpop.com/search/?keyword=Invention 5. Brainpop-https://www.brainpop.com/search/?keyword=Inventions