Stage 1- Desired Results Station/Center 2 Read with a Partner Content Standard (s): R.CCR.

9 - Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. R.CCR.10 - Read and compare complex literary and informational texts independently. RI.2.10 - Read and comprehend informational texts, including history, science, and technical texts. 2.L.1 - Understand animal life cycles and be able to describe it and the animal. 4.L.1.2- Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. RL.4.9-Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Understanding(s)/Goals: - Students will understand how science and reading are related. - Students will understand how to choose good reliable information from a text. -Students will know how to read a nonfiction text and take information from it to use in their project. -Students will understand how to cooperatively work with other peers to share their ideas for their project and give feedback to one another.

Essential Question (s): - What can you learn from reading a nonfiction text. - How can reading relate to science? - How can I cooperatively work with my peers? - How can research help me to understand the animal that I am researching? -How can I use map skills to measure distance?

Student Objectives (outcomes): - Students will be able to help one another in finding resources and information about the animals. Students will be able to discuss things that they are finding and learning. -Students will be able to find and measure the distances on a map.

Stage 2- Assessment Evidence

Performance Task (s): - Students will help other students look for resources and text to use. They will begin discussing with each other about the things they have already researched. Students will share some of their readings with each other and give feedback on what the other student may need to look for or research more. Students will also keep journaling things they find.

Other Evidence: -Students journals were help to check for student understanding.

Stage 3- Learning Plan Learning Activities: - Students will read with a partner. Students will get with a partner and discuss with each other about what they have learned so far. Students should share with each other the books they have chosen to use in their research and give feedback on what they think about the books. They will give verbal book reviews stating why they like certain books and why they felt they are most useful in their project. They will give one another ideas of things they should improve on. Students will discuss the animals habitat, eating habits, a description, its life span, and some interesting facts. -With their partner students will use a map to find the distance from where the animal is located to the city that they live in. Students will compare the distances of their animals.