Term 2 9 Week Unit 13th January 2023

GRADE 2 UNIT FLYER

Animal survival depends on circumstances in their environment.

Key Concepts
✦ Form
What is it like?

✦ Change
How is it changing?

✦ Responsibility
What is our responsibility?

An Inquiry into:
✦ Characteristics of animals
✦ The ways in which animals
adapt to their environment
✦ How human actions have
affected the environment
and animals
Learner Profile Focus
✦ Principled
✦ Inquirers
✦ Knowledgeable
Sharing the Planet
This unit is centered around the students
developing an understanding of how living
things adapt to survive. We will be exploring
animals in their natural habitats, and building an
awareness about the roles we can play in
animal survival. We will particularly emphasize
the existence of local Thai animals. Students
have the opportunity look at animals from the
past, identifying possible reasons contributing
to why they may have become extinct and use
their understanding to support current
endangered animals. This will be a project
based learning experience where students will
practice their research skills and develop their
ability to write an informational report.

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 Term 2 9 Week Unit 13th January 2023

Math Focus

Literacy Focus

Children will be learning the skills and essential

elements of how to write an informational
report. They will be exposed to a range of
During this time, students graphic organizers which they can use to assist
will be focusing on patterns
in collecting, organizing and presenting
and sequencing. Students
information. Students will apply their research
will use their understanding
of addition and skip
skills by looking at the classi cation,
counting and apply this
description, location and dynamics of their
knowledge to describe animals.
their patterns. Using words
and symbols, they will
create rules, representing
the pattern in a variety of
ways.

The strategies developed

when exploring patterns
will then support students Along with their current CAFE reading goals, a
in gaining multiplication variety of reading strategies will be explored
skills. As we move on to pertaining to supporting research skills such as:
work on multiplication using dictionaries and glossaries as tools; use of
tables, pattern recognition pictures, illustrations, and diagrams, skimming
plays a key role in and scanning and note taking techniques.
developing this
understanding.
Ways to support your child
UNIT VOCABULARY •Discuss the concepts of adaption, endangered
habitat characteristics species and extinction with your child.
adaptation extinct
•What animals are endangered in your home
conservation threats country?
ecosystem responsibility
survival features •What responsibilities do you feel you have
resources prevention towards protecting animals and their habitats?
population m a m m a l
•Look for any books that your child might be
reptile amphibian
able to bring along to school to share about
bird insect
animals.

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