February 28th - April 15th
use the knowledge acquired from the unit to conserve and help habitats around their houses and school.
Improve their garden to turn it into a natural habitat for animals.
Make a house or feeder for animals native to the region.
Voice: Students will present their food chain final assessment; Students to give peers feedback on final assessment
Choice: Students will choose what food chain they would like to present
Ownership: Students will take ownership in their final assessment, daily school work, classroom jobs, leader of a small group, along with other groups in groups.
Choose: Students will decide whether to conserve a habitat, improve their garden, or build a feeder.
Act: Students will impact the environment in a positive way by choosing one of the previous choices.
Reflect: Students will analyze how their actions can have a positive or negative impact on the environment.
Form: What is it like? The understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described and categorized.
Function: How does it work? The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or way of behaving that can be investigated.
Connection: How is it connected to other things? The understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
Reading: non-fiction texts,
Math: measurement- length, area, time
Science: food chains, adaptations
Social Studies: Goods and services