2010+City+Wildlife

=Third Grade Unit 2: City Wildlife=

ELA Standards

 * Reading Comprehension 2.6 Extract appropriate and significant information from the text, including problems and solutions.

Science Standards
> Life Science 3b. Students know examples of diverse life forms in different environments, such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands.

Critical questions to ask while teaching:

 * 1) What do all animals need to survive?
 * 2) How can animals find what they need in the city?
 * 3) How do they find it in different environments?

What they will understand at the end of the unit:

 * 1) Describe an environment and some of the life forms that live in that ecosystem and how they interact

Vocabulary

 * 1) Biology: The plants and animals of a particular area
 * 2) Habitat: The home or environment of an animal, plant, or other living thing.
 * 3) Biome: A large area with similar plants and animals that can live in a certain kind of environment.
 * 4) Environment: the place where something exists or lives
 * 5) Ecology: The study of the interaction of people with their environment
 * 6) Ecosystem: A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
 * 7) Regions: An area or part of the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries
 * 8) Survival: To live.
 * 9) Extinction: The process of ceasing or causing something to cease to exist
 * 10) Development: An area of land with new buildings on it
 * 11) Density: The number of people or things in a given area or space

Skills
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 * 1) Writing a better sentence: Students will be able to write a sentence with rich descriptive language, meaningful details, and tier three vocabulary (see above).

Materials to be used

 * ===Videos=== || ===Links=== || ===Other Materials=== ||
 * || rss url="http://www.diigo.com/rss/user/Mizmercer/3unit2" link="true" number="20" || rss url="http://www.diigo.com/rss/user/Mizmercer/ecosystems" link="true" number="20" ||

Formative

 * Example

Summative

 * Descriptive Sentences

Learning Activities
and Three || What are biomes and habitats?
 * Week One || What animals live in the city and what helps them survive there?
 * Share what we know
 * Pick out pics for VoiceThread || * Biology
 * Environment
 * Ecology ||
 * Week Two
 * BrainPop videos and activities || * Ecosystem
 * Habitat
 * Biome ||
 * Week Four || What helps animals survive in different areas?
 * Share what we learned about what different animals need
 * Explore how this changes || * Regions
 * Survival
 * Extinction ||
 * Week Four || What happens when things change in a biome or ecosystem || * Development
 * Density ||