Jess's Activities and Resources

Activity-Hands-on
1. Tell students that they will be investigating how adaptations for feeding help predators catch their prey.
2. Divide the class as evenly as possible into three groups: knives, forks, and spoons.
3. Give each student a cup and a piece of silverware. [Each group should have a different type of silverware: knife, fork, or spoon.]
4. Have each group pick one member to be a recorder who will take paper and pencil outside and record the group’s results.
5. Tell students that in this activity, they will be representing animals, the lentils will represent food, and each type of silverware will represent a different adaptation for feeding.
6. Take students outside and throw the lentils onto the grass.
7. Tell students that they may pick up one bean at a time using only their “feeding appendage” (the plastic silverware) and place it into their cup. Explain that the object of the game is to pick up as many beans as possible, and put them in the cups, in the time given.
8. Give students two minutes to collect as many beans as possible.
9. At the end of two minutes, have students gather with their group
and count how many beans they collected. Have the recorder for each group record the results.

TECHNOLOGY
1. after students complete the hands-on activity, they will visit a virtual zoo in which they will see visual images of a variety of animals. Students will record the different animal adaptations they find.

VIRTUAL ZOO WEBSITE: http://library.advanced.org/11922/index.htm

Jaci's Lesson Plan

W301 Lesson Plan Template

Target Audience of the Lesson:

3rd graders

Big Idea of the Lesson:

To teach students how smaller shapes may fit into bigger ones. To give students knowledge about geometry shapes and sizes

Overall Goal for the Lesson:

-Give each student a tetromino grid and show each small shape that is available. -have each student pick a different shape and give them a stack of that shape. -Have students color each of their shapes differently. Use as many colors as possible. Repeats are allowed. -Explain that each student is going to try and fit all of their shapes into the grid. Tell them that they can flip and twist shapes to fit into the grid. -When they are ready, have them glue in shapes on the grid and watch as they try and work in the shapes.

Indiana Content Standards Addressed: (Copy and paste entire standard from http://www.indianastandards.org/)

3.4.4 Identify common solid objects that are the parts needed to make a more complex solid object. 3.4.5 Draw a shape that is congruent* to another shape.

ISTE CNETS Student Standards Addressed (Copy and paste from http://cnets.iste.org/students/)

Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

Lesson Plan Template

Target Audience of the Lesson:
Third Grade

Big Idea of the Lesson:
To have them work on the computer to do research about the different moon phases so they can work in groups. Each group will present a different moon phase, that they have researched on the web.

Overall Goal for the Lesson:
Have the whole class understand the different stages of the moon, when they moon changes and why. They will know the different stages by name, and will be able to draw the different phases.

Indiana Content Standards Adressed
3.3.4 Observe and describe that the moon looks a little different every day, but looks the same again about every four weeks.

ISTE CNETS Student Standards Addressed
Technology productivity toolsStudents use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.Technology research toolsStudents use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.

Jess's Science Lesson Plan Outline

**target audience-
My target audience is a fifth grade class. My class consists of 24 students and desks are arranged in 6 groups of 4. My overall class is very rowdy and therefore like a lot of hands-on activities. In my classroom, there are computers for each of the 6 groups. The teacher also has an screen at the front of her classroom that enlarges her personal computer screen.
** big idea-
I want my students to have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on activity that gives them a better sense of animal adaptations. I also want them to be able to visually seen different examples of animal adaptations.
** overall Goal-
My students will observe and explain how living things have different adaptations to best assist in survival and reproduction.
**indiana content standards-
5.4.1
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Explain that for offspring to resemble their parents there must be a reliable way to transfer information from one generation to the next.
5.4.7
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Explain that living things, such as plants and animals, differ in their characteristics, and that sometimes these differences can give members of these groups (plants and animals) an advantage in surviving and reproducing.
5.4.4
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Explain that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some do not survive as well, and some cannot survive at all.
5.4.5
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Explain how changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
** Student Standards
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative work.
Technology research tools
Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.
websites:
http://www.indianastandards.org/files/sci/sci_5_4_7.pdf, http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=232
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=83

Lesson Plan

Target Audience of Lesson: Kindergarten

Big Idea: The students will be given pieces of paper with an outline of an egg on it. They then must watch as the egg is candled and projected on the wall. The students will identify specific parts of the embryo. They will watch the movies posted on the websites provided to see certain parts of the embryo and how it gradually changes into a chick. Finally, they will summarize the growth process and describe what they see in the classroom in comparison to the websites.

Websites:

http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/Embryology/Resources.htm - Video

http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/

http://www.geocities.com/sseagraves/fromeggtochick.htm

http://encarta.msn.com/media_461534809/Chick_Hatching.html - Video

Overall Goal: To teach the students about how chicks are born and how they grow while they are still inside of the egg. After watching the video, the students will be able to follow the growth process of a chick before it hatches and identify specific parts of the egg. The students will learn how to conduct an internet search while becoming skilled at using the mouse and keyboard. They will also see that the pictures and movies provided by websites are very much similar to those in the classroom.

Indiana Content Standards Addressed:
Standard 4: The Living Environment

Students ask questions about a variety of living things and everyday events that can be answered through shared observations.

Diversity of Life

K.4.1 View Resource(s) Give examples of plants and animals.

K.4.2 View Resource(s) Observe plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.

ISTE CNETS Student Standards Addressed:

CONTENT STANDARD C: LIFE SCIENCE
C1. The characteristics of organisms
C2. Life cycles of organisms
C3. Organisms and environments

Jaci's Lesson plan ideas

Math:

Geometry
- Use grids and have students try and fit smaller sized objects into them
- Have students use shapes to create larger ones
- Have students find the area and perimeter by measuring and using formulas

Addition and subtraction
-Have students use play money to buy things
-Have them find the difference between the price they pay and the amount they actually have. have them find the amount of change that they are going to get

Jess's Lesson Plan Ideas...

lesson plan ideas!

science- have students go on a left hunt. Students would collect a bunch of different leaves and then use technology to look up the names of each leaf.

History- Students could use technology to research some of the history of bloomington. Students could then take a field trip downtown and visit the court house and other older buildings.

Math- Students could use technology to play math games. This would be a fun way to learn new math concepts.

Reading- Students could use the internet to research multiply authors. Children could compile a list of books that interest them and then take a class trip to the library.