ARC Research LAB - Unit 2

Wild and Endangered Animals

Week of Nov. 11th-15th

Objectives:

• Students will revise for key details and complete their finished product for this section on classification.

I Can Statement:

• I can distinguish between information provided by pictures and information provided by text.

Learning Goals:

1. Today you will revise, edit, illustrate, and publish your section for RQ #3. You will revise to make sure you teach the reader all the most important details about your topic. You will use words and pictures to communicate this information.

2. Students will be able to read research books to flag and tag information for RQ #4.

Reading Culture:

Set Focus"As you read, be ready to share one illustration you think is especially informative/interesting and explain how it helped you understand the text. Also be on the lookout for anything you may want to include in your information about RQ #3."

Students will be actively engaged with books during Independent Reading time.

Writing Culture:

• Set Focus "Now, you will reread the informational piece you wrote yesterday, evaluate it using our W.2 Rubric, and revise it to make sure it earns at least the first two points, by using key details in words and pictures to teach about your topic."
• PUBLISHING

1. Editing: "Edit your informational piece for one convention at a time to make sure your audience is able to read and understand your ideas."

2. Illustrating: "Create an illustration for your informational piece."

3. Publishing: Students work to publish their final work.

4. Presenting: Give students the opportunity to share their work.

• Students will be able to take notes on their animal's changes throughout its life that they flagged and tagged during their reading for research.
• Set Focus Complete the graphic organizer for RQ #4. Use the Thinking Map to write about the text you just shared with your partner.

Content Block

Animal Classification

Standards

• 1.L.2.2 Summarize the basic needs of a variety of different animals (including air, water, and food) for energy and growth.

Objectives:

Students will be able to identify what makes an animal a bird and what this type of animal needs to survive.

Animal Life Cycles - Frog

Objectives: Students will be able to identify the stages and understand the life cycles of a reptile, amphibian, and bird.

Animal Life Cycles - Turtle

Objective: Students will be able to identify the stages and understand the life cycles of a reptile, and an amphibian.

Animal Life Cycles-Turkey

Objectives: Students will be able to identify the stages and understand the life cycles of a reptile, amphibian, and bird.

WRITE TO TEXT

Use a VENN Diagram to show the similarities and differences.

i-Ready Math

Objectives:

• Students will be able to use place value understanding and properties of operations.
• Students will be able to understand place value; extend and recognize patterns in counting sequence.
• Students will be able to learn the Doubles Fact Family

NC Standards:

NC.1.NBT.6 Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90, explaining the reasoning, using:

• Concrete models and drawings
• Number lines
• Strategies based on place value
• Properties of operations
• The relationship between addition and subtraction

NC.1.NBT.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.

• Unitize by making a ten from a collection of ten ones.
• Model the numbers from 11 to 19 as composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
• Demonstrate that the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens, with 0 ones.

Week of Nov. 11th

• In this lesson, students learn the strategies on how to make 10 to add within 20.

WEEK of Nov.18th

• Students will be working on Lesson 24 Compare Numbers
• NC.1.NBT.3 Compare two two-digit numbers based on the value of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.North Carolina Grade 1 Mathematics (2018)
• Learning Objectives
• Understanding the meaning of the symbols < and >.
• Comparing the value of 2 two-digit numbers using tens and ones.
• Write the symbols, <, =, and > to compare 2 two-digits

Social Studies and Science

History - The changes in history over time and how those changes affect our families and neighborhoods.

Me On The Map - A geographical look at the students are on the planet, continent, country, state, and town.

Culture - We will look at the cultures within our class, school, and neighborhood.

Economics - Students will explore how community helpers affect the community and how jobs affect families.

Forces and Motion - Lessons on how pushes and pulls are forces that start or stop motions.