Observe and create a visual representation of an object which includes its major features.
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| Clay Eagle | Students will explore how the shape of modelling clay can be changed by cutting, tearing, crumpling, smashing, or rolling. They will mold clay into the shape of a bald eagle and discuss how their clay model is a representation of a bald eagle that shows its major features. The class will discuss the bald eagle as a symbol of the United States in this integrated lesson. |
| Gr. K Lesson 3-Who Lives in the Everglades? | Who lives in the Everglades is lesson 3 of 3. Students will review some of the animals that live in the Everglades presented in lessons 1 and 2 by looking at an interactive presentation. Students will collaborate with a partner to do a sorting activity of animals that live in Florida and that do not live in Florida. |
| Make Believe Homes and Habitats | In this lesson students will demonstrate an understanding of characteristics of real and make-believe animals, they will sort animals according to characteristics, and they will complete a drawing of a make-believe animal home in a real-world habitat. |
| A Home for All | This unit opens with a walking field trip to a local community pond. In this Project-Based Learning experience students explore their local environment and describe the different habitats for plants and animals. The class will create a KWL Chart and Word Web for habitats. Individually, students will write an informative report about a chosen animal and its habitat. As teams, students will sort and present animal/plant cards according to their given habitat/environment. Students will individually create and present a habitat using a diorama for a chosen plant/animal. |
| Have You Ever Met a Tree? | The students practice making observations of a specific tree and write about it as though they are a scientist. |
| Nature Journaling | This is a detailed lesson plan for introducing the importance of detail accuracy through nature journaling. Students will find a leaf, flower and insect to draw in their nature journals. From this lesson the students will conclude that it is important to pay attention to detail when observing and identifying objects in nature. |
| Is it a Plant? | How do you know if an object is a plant or not? What are the major parts of a plant? Are plants living things? Student will encounter these questions and more as they identify and explore the different parts of a plant. This lesson will help students identify different types of plants as well as the major parts of a plant. |
| Day and Night | This is a short lesson to teach Earth/Space benchmarks on day and night to your K students. It also addresses some Nature of Science benchmarks. |
| Go Fish! | This lesson will guide students in understanding how models can help us understand real-world objects. Students will learn about fish features, observe real fish, and create a model of a fish. |
| All This Talk about Weather is Making Me Hungry! | This lesson uses When a Storm Comes Up by Allan Fowler and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi and Ron Barrett to introduce four major weather patterns (rain showers, blizzards, tornadoes and hurricanes). The students will apply what they have learned to identify, describe, and illustrate the weather patterns using white liquid glue and oil pastels. It is recommended that this lesson be broken into two parts, with at least twelve hours in-between each lesson so the white liquid glue has time to dry. |
| Lesson 1: Making Models to Understand Our Home | This lesson plan from NASA's Messenger program allows K-2 students to make a model of their home to understand models and scale. |
| Your Own Backyard | Each of Earth's different environments has its own natural features; this lesson uses multimedia resources to introduce a variety of environments to students. First, students will discuss local environmental features, then take a field trip to explore them. Next, they'll watch videos of different environment types, then compare and contrast their features. Finally, they will discuss the geologic features of interesting places they've visited. |
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Description |
| Colorado Fish Jigsaw Puzzles | This teaching idea describes a project completed by Kindergarten students after studying living things and the physical characteristics that make them special. Students created fish jigsaw puzzles that included written descriptions. This idea can be adapted to the study of fish in any state. |
| Where Plants and Animals Live | This site features activity ideas on comparing plants and animals in different habitats. It also includes a virtual manipulative, black line masters for activity ideas, and a family newsletter to encourage family involvement. |
| A Story Without Words-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this activity, the students will be able to describe the jobs people can do at a zoo or an aquarium. |
| Falcon Fun-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this classroom activity, after a general discussion about birds, students will be able to label body parts of a raptor on a worksheet. |
| How Many Seeds? | In this activity, students demonstrate that they know the value of numbers by writing numerals and gluing seeds on paper apples. |
| Penguin Chick Transformer-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this activity, the students will be able to name penguin body parts and recognize that penguins hatch from eggs. |
| Sharing What We Know About Organisms | Students discuss living and nonliving organisms, including plants and animals. |
| Thematic Observational Drawing Ideas for Primary Students | This chart provides teachers with easy and practical items that can be used to for observational tables and observational drawing opportunities. Drawing requires the observer to focus on details such as shape, texture, line, and color. When students have time to study and then draw items in nature it increases their observational skills. |
| Who Am I?-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this activity, the students will be able to identify two differences between sea lions and seals. |
