Master Teacher lessons
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An up close and personal look at Jane Goodall helps students understand roles human's play on preserving wildlife and understand how these observations let us know that some animals form groups that help members survive.
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Students use lines, rays and diagrams to explain how light rays reflecting on an object help us see the object.
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Using data and prior knowledge, students use Educreations to explain their observations, measurements and understanding of various plant's external parts and how they help the plant survive in its environment.
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Students grappling with understanding effects of weathering on the Earth's surface benefit from this video as they jigsaw their new information to prepare for a group presentation.
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Students begin to create a mind map using prior knowledge about fossils.
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Students compile the data they found in their team and create a presentation that clearly communicates their findings.
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Students have created a presentation using technology to share their findings and how they classified natural objects vs. artifacts from their classroom dig.
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Choice and creativity are key in this collaborative effort to produce a presentation of new extra facts learned, helping them to connect weathering to the real world.
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Students will use a graphic organizer to define and give examples of four types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative), use them correctly in writing and recording a short story using an interactive voice recorder.
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Students will illustrate a theme from Bud, Not Buddy through generation of a creative book report (i.e., flyer, newspaper, game, interview with the author, etc.). Through examination of these themes, students will make real world connections.
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Because incorporating forms of artistic expression is an important part of learning, students will create a song/poem to explain the events and significance of the events in the book Bud, Not Buddy using voice recorder interactive technology.
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Students get multiple opportunities to process new information and present it.
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Students will create a summary of the story "Letters Home from Yosemite" using www.voki.com.
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Students will be participating in group discussions on chapters 6 & 7 in "Who Was Dr. Seuss?" We will also be filming video presentations of the biography reports the students wrote as a homework assignment earlier in this unit.
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As we continue our biography unit, we will be practicing our note taking skills. But more importantly - today our biographies come alive through the use of technology. We will be enjoying the the video presentations created by the students.
