Marvels of Nature: Essential Question

What makes Earth's natural wonders exciting and unique?

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Recognize the characteristics of informational text.
Identify text and graphic features of informational text.

I can:

recognize the charcateristics of informational text
identify text and graphic features of informational text
(create your own)

The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we know how to ask

...Nancy Newhall

What does this quote mean to you?

Respond to the video

What other fantastical marvels are waiting to be seen?
What are some reasons you think the marvels in the video are considered special?
How does the video connect to our Essential Question?

Essential Question

What makes Earth's natural wonders exciting and unique?

Over the next few weeks we will explore Earth's natural wonders. Today, we will use what we already know about text and graph features to learn about the seven natural wonders of world.

Big Idea Words

I can identify real-life connections between words and their use.

Big Idea words

Readers should look for any text or graphic features that the author might use. These features help readers’ understand the text better. A text feature can indicate a title or show emphasis through special type. A graphic feature, such as a chart, helps give meaning to or explain ideas in a text.

Informational text often has:

headings that name the topic of each section of the text. In addition, there may be subheadings to break down that topic into subtopics. The headings and subheadings may be written in boldface, all caps, or both.
charts which are sed to organize information in a meaningful and easy-to-understand way.
graphs which usually represent numerical information
diagrams which are pictures with labels that explains ideas in the text
Maps, illustrations, and photographs which contain captions or labels to explain what they show