Green Leapers

Lesson/Activity Title:

Green Leapers. This lesson will focus on a review of Incomplete

Metamorphosis. This will tie in the characteristics of Grasshoppers
which have the ability to jump 20 times their body length. Students will
mimic these green leapers as they record and graph 6 of their jumps.

Standards Addressed:
Grade Level Expectation: Third Grade LIFE SCIENCE
Concepts and skills students master:
1. The duration and timing of life cycle events such as reproduction and longevity vary across
and species
Evidence Outcomes21st Century Skills and Readiness Competencies

Students can:
a. Use evidence to develop a scientific explanation regarding the stages of how
develop and change over time (DOK 1-3)
b. Analyze and interpret data to generate evidence that different organisms deve
differently over time (DOK 1-2)
c. Use a variety of media to collect and analyze data regarding how organisms d
(DOK 1-2) Inquiry Questions:
1. How are life cycles from a variety of organisms similar and different?
2. How does an organism change throughout its life cycle?
Relevance and Application:
1. Living things may have different needs at different points in their life cycles.
Grade Level Expectation: Third Grade RWC
Concepts and skills students master:
2. Successful group activities need the cooperation of everyone
Evidence Outcomes 21st Century Skills and Readiness Competencies

Students can:
a. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on gra
and texts, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly. (CCSS: SL
i.
Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required
explicitly draw on that preparation and other information know
topic to explore ideas under discussion. (CCSS: SL.3.1a)
ii.
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the flo
respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a
the topics and texts under discussion). (CCSS: SL.3.1b)
iii.
Ask questions to check understanding of information presented
topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others. (CCSS
iv.
Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discu
(CCSS: SL.3.1d)
v.
Use eye contact, volume, and tone appropriate to audience and
vi.
Use different types of complete sentences to share information
directions, or request information
vii.
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read
information presented in diverse media and formats, including
quantitatively, and orally. (CCSS: SL 3.2)
viii.
Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, o
appropriate elaboration and detail. (CCSS: SL 3.3)

Purpose:

Students will be able to graph data using a line graph and interpret
information on a graph. Students will complete a reading assignment
and answer the questions to check for understanding.

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to work in groups to record their jumps.

Individually students will interpret the data from their jumps and
answer the questions.

Your Goals for Learners:

My goal for learners is for them to apply skills they have learned in
previous math units to record data on a line graph and interpret that
data.

Your Learning Principles:

Students learn best through experience and when they have clear
communication from their teachers. Students engage and participate
when the educational task contains elements of interaction and a
challenge. This is incorporated into my lesson by requiring students to
work in groups to record their jumps. The physical and social aspect of
the task will engage students

Setting:

Students will gather in the meeting area for a mini lesson. They will be
exposed to modeling of the skills they will use to complete their work.
They will then be dismissed to their desks to record their information in
groups and graph their data. Students will return to meeting area for
debrief.

Materials and preparation:

List of resources and materials:

Students will be provided with a worksheet to complete their recording
and graphing.

Activity Procedure:

Describe how the lesson/activity will be presented:

1.) Students will gather in the meeting area. They will be introduced to
the lesson entitled Green Leapers.
2.) Students will be provided with instructions explaining how to
graph and interpret information from a line graph.
3.) Students will be dismissed to work independently/partners at their
desks.
4.) Students will be recalled to meeting area where they will debrief
by turning and talking and sharing their conclusions.
5.) Students will be dismissed to their desks and clean up before
transition to next period.

Differentiation:

Differentiated instruction John and Michael will be

invited to work with the teacher at the small group table. They will be
provided with a detailed review of what they will be doing to record
their jumps.

Assessment:

Students will present their recorded data to their peers.

Extensions:

Students will be asked to complete the diagrams in their bug journal

and may start independent reading if they should finish the assignment
early.