Plants and Animals - Week One

2.b. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light. 4.b. record observations and data with pictures, numbers, or written statements Science(S) Language Arts (LA) Vocabulary (V) Visual & Performing Arts (VPA) Math (M) Homework (HW) Technology (T)
Living Vs. Non-Living Things

Monday LA-Story: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (8 minutes) LA- T-Chart: In what ways is this rabbit like a real rabbit? (8 minutes) (Have rabbit prop) In what ways is it different from a real rabbit? Ext. what does a real rabbit need to stay alive? (8 minutes) V- Picture Dictionary: Living (8 minutes)

Tuesday LA-Morning Question: In what ways is this silk plant like this real plant? In what ways are they different? (15 minutes) *add to T-Chart (5 minutes) V- Picture Dictionary: Plant (GLAD) (8 minutes)

Wednesday VPA- Living Vs. NonLiving Song (3 minutes) LA/S- T-Chart: Living Vs. Non-living Things; what do we know from the last two days about what makes something living? Nonliving? (10 minutes) V- Picture Dictionary: Organism (8 minutes) HW: Home School Connection: Find one living and one nonliving thing in your home

Thursday LA-Turn to your partner and tell them one living and one non-living thing you found in your home (5 minutes) S- Outside Experiment: draw/write 5 things found outside and answer whether they are living or nonliving with use of a graphic organizer in science notebooks (20 minutes) M- Word Problems (10 minutes)

Friday VPA- Living Vs. Non-Living Song (3 minutes) M- Word Problems (10 minutes) S- Observation of classroom pet, the frog, and a rock, Use of graphic organizer to learn scientific inquiry and determine if living or nonliving, Data Collection in science notebooks (20 minutes)

T- Animals Making a Living http://www.teachersdomain.org/ LA- Story (10 resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt.traps/ minutes) (10 minutes) T- iPad stations related to content