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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW ARE ANIMALS AWESOME?
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AWESOME ANIMALS PROJECT DESCRIPTION
AWESOME ANIMALS PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project introduces young learners to the animal kingdom through the essential question, “How are animals awesome?” Students bring in stuffed animals from home to share their previous knowledge of animals and are introduced to an awesome animal each day. Students investigate where animals live, how they move, and their special adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Students engage in song, movement, art and hands-on activities to reinforce their learning. Math is integrated through sorting and graphing animals and engineering is integrated as students build birds’ nests. Students’ final product is a model of their favorite animal that highlights that animal’s awesome characteristics. Students share their love for animals by exhibiting their final products for community members.
UTK students are working towards the understanding of the following Performance Expectation in this unit:
NGSS Performance Expectation
NGSS Performance Expectation
K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. [Clarification Statement: Examples of patterns could include that animals need to take in food but plants do not; the different kinds of food needed by different types of animals; the requirement of plants to have light; and, that all living things need water.]
Written by: Theresa Punzalan and Jessica Sweeney
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