Endangered Species – Teaching Notes
The units designed and showcased within the Techno-Bowl website have been created to engage students in higher-level cognitive skills. For those of us who have “tested” these units with our students, we discovered that some of the students have been anxious at the beginning of the unit because the assignment is open-ended and the students have to “fill in the gaps” with their own creativity and research. These units were intentionally designed to fully engage students in this manner and cover Archdiocesan Outcomes.
Some of the websites we have chosen are a little bit advanced for 3rd Grade. You might want to walk students through these websites explaining concepts as you go.
The following cite is designed to help teach 2nd and 3rd grade students how to correctly cite sources used from the web: http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/23.html
There is a wonderful website on Endangered Species with several lesson plan ideas and links: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Science/Ecology/Endangered_Species.html
Prior Knowledge Requirements:
Kid Pix Slide
Shows, Power Point, or Hyper Studio
How to correctly
site web sources (http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/23.html)
Saving images
from web site and inserting them in Power Point or HyperStudio
Important Notes:
Because of the
amount of on-line research and the requirement for using pictures and
graphics from the web, it is imperative that the students learn how to
cite each of these sources correctly. This may be a good
opportunity for a lesson on plagiarism.
Show and discuss
the rubric. Stress to the students that they
are graded using this rubric. Make sure they understand if any
elements are missing they will be graded down.