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Grades 3-5: Interactive livestream
Overview
Overview
Come face-to-face with a diversity of spooktacular skulls! Watch a live colony of flesh-eating beetles in action as they devour and clean flesh from bones. Examine eye sockets, teeth, and other features to find out if mystery skulls were predator or prey.
Materials: Students will need a pencil and a piece of paper to sketch.
Extension activities have been designed to be self-directed by the students or used as class group work, and may be built upon by the teacher if they desire.
How does it work?
How does it work?
This program lasts approximately 40 minutes, is taught by a team of professional educators, and is broadcast to multiple classes at the same time via YouTube Live. Students will interact with the educators through browser-based polls and hands-on activities.
This program also works well for classes who meet asynchronously because the recording will be shared.
Schedule: Friday, October 28, 2022
This program is designed for grades 3-5, but all are welcome.
Select the time and language that works best for your student(s):
Schedule: Friday, October 28, 2022
This program is designed for grades 3-5, but all are welcome.
Select the time and language that works best for your student(s):
10 am PT for English-only presentation
Registration is now closed, but don't fret! We'll post the recording within 48 hours of the live event.
NGSS connections
NGSS connections
This unit supports the following standards:
Crosscutting Concepts
Structure and Function
Related Performance Expectations
3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
ELA / Literacy Common Core connections
ELA / Literacy Common Core connections
This unit’s supporting lessons can augment and provide a real life context for these ELA standards.
Text Types and Purposes (grades 3-5):
1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique
Research to Build and Present Knowledge (grades 3-5):
7. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Connection & technology information
Connection & technology information
A week before the session, registered parties will receive an email containing the unique YouTube Live destination for the broadcast. If you registered on behalf of multiple classes, forward this along to your buddy teachers.
We highly recommend testing—in advance of the program date—whether the device you plan to use can access YouTube Live. If you can see our Live Penguin Cam, you should also be able to watch other Academy livestreams.
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If you or your students cannot access the Students tab above, you must contact your IT department to whitelist this website.
If you or your students’ district devices cannot access YouTube Live or YouTube videos, you can instead play the embedded Recording, which we will post within 48 hours of the broadcast.
Our programs are designed so that students can participate asynchronously; all interactive aspects such as Mentimeter polls and Padlet student submissions remain active through the semester.
If you have questions or need us to resend the email (check your junk folder first!), please contact us at distancelearning@calacademy.org. We recommend adding that email address to your contacts to help ensure our messages are accepted by your district's email domain.
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