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Watching Apples Grow
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This learning experience addresses Learning Standard MST #4. Students will be able to explain the importance of each season to the life cycle of an apple tree. Students collaborate to create a four-season display that illustrates the life cycle of an apple tree and write descriptions of each season. Students need to have knowledge about the life cycle and understand that trees have life cycles, too.
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Wonderful Winter
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This is a unit that was developed for special education students in grades one and two. This unit will take approximately four weeks to complete. " Winter Is Here," by Kimberly Weinberger, "The Snowy Day," Ezra Jack Keats(cassette tape also), "Sunshine Makes The Seasons," by Franklyn M. Branley, and "The Biggest Best Snowman," by Martha Cleyler are used.
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"Some (Sum) Math Makes a Difference"
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Studies have shown us that students learn best when what they have to learn in school connects to real life situations. Throughout this learning unit, students will be exposed to a variety of word problems dealing with addition and subtraction. Some of the strategies for word problem solution come from the math text, ADDISON-WESLEY MATHEMATICS, copyright date, 1989.
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Green Thumbs and Dirty Fingernails
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Students will take a walk through the forest (or take a "virtual" journey using a
software program) to explore plant life within an ecosystem.
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Fins, Feather, Fur and Flowers Too
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This unit integrates Science, Math, Language Arts and Technology to study life-cycles and classification of plants and animals.
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Amazon Rainforest
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Essential Questions: What defines a rainforest? What are the layers of the rainforest and how are they unique? Why are the rainforests important?
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Endangered Animals Bookmarks
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By developing bookmarks students will be integrating their scientific knowledge with writing skills to present information to the public on endangered animals. The students will need to have background information on a specific endangered animal and working knowledge of a publishing program such as "Print Shop".
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Money Counts!!
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Essential Questions: What role does money play in your life? Why is it important to be able to county money and make change? What different monetary systems exist?
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Iditarod Slide Show
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Purpose: have students gather information by note taking to select and retell in their own words an interesting, factual information to use the computer to prepare a presentation to present to an audience.
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Amelia Earhart: A Biography
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The purpose of this learning unit is for students in second grade to read and experience an example of non-fiction, biographical material. The students will also be exposed to the success of an adventurous woman who demonstrated the ability, ingenuity and spunk not common to women of her generation and time. At the end of this unit the children will interview as well as write a biography of a classmate, use the computer to publish the story, and use the digital camera to photograph the student.
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Folk Tales
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This lesson was developed to integrate the social studies and language arts curriculums. It helps the student investigate different cultures while incorporating their own culture within the experience.
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Land Ho
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This unit introduces the students to standard and non-standard measurement with a pirate theme. At the culmination of the unit students will understand the difference between standard and non-standard measurement. They will be able to estimate measurements and measure using standard and non-standard measurement tools.
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Habitats
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The purpose of this unit is to familiarize the students with different habitats of the world. Students will learn the location, plants and animals of each area in the unit. This will be accomplished through classroom experiences and use of the internet.
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The Earth's Underwater Zoo: Under The Sea
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This learning experience demonstrates the variety of underwater environments and exquisite forms of life.
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A Stitch in Time
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The reading and quilts unit is a language
arts unit developed to nurture a love of reading
with a connection to well known quilt patterns
and to feature different authors and illustrators.
This unit is literature based and spans a period
g reading, writing, and technology skills.
The unit focuses on the history and origins of
various quilt patterns and is designed for use
with first and second grade students.
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Let the Games Begin
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"Let the Games Begin" is an integrated learning unit involving language arts, math, science, technology, social studies and health. This unit is designed to be used with students in grades one and two but could easily be adapted to be used throughout all of the elementary grades. This is devised to be a total immersion and activity based unit with a strong emphasis on language arts and writing skills.
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
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This unit was created because of the events that happened on September 11, 2001. After reviewing the events of September 11th, it became apparent that the students had confusion as to the significance of landmarks in New York City and Washington. We realized as teachers the importance of our American Heritage and what it means to be an American. The patriotism that has encompassed our nation since that horrific day has brought around a renewed love and allegiance to our wonderful country. As teachers, we wanted to embrace this unification and pass it on to our children. We want the children to know what each patriotic symbol looks like and what it also represents. This unit will focus on the different patriotic symbols and what each one represents.
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Under the Canopy
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This rainforest unit is an integrated
summer reading program designed to reinforce
language arts skills with an emphasis on reading
and writing. The summer program is designed to
help students at risk meet the N.Y. State
standards. This unit is literature based and
spans a period of four weeks incorporating
reading, writing, and technology skills for
students who have just completed grades one
through five. It will also expose the students
to the geographical and scientific significance
of a rainforest habitat.
This theme based approach to learning a broad
topic allows students functioning at a wide
variety of levels to work together cooperatively,
learn from each other, and have fun together.
At risk readers take on the role of the "mentor"
or "teacher" when paired with younger students
and they are then able to build their self-esteem
. These students are rarely able to be the
experts with their peer group so this becomes a
very positive experience for all the children.
In addition, the younger students love the
attention from their older classmates.
All aspects of the summer program center around
the rainforest theme including reading, writing,
listening, and speaking projects, art activities,
guest readers, and even snacks are woven into
the theme.
"Under the Canopy" is sure to be a swinging good
time for all!
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Up to Our Nose in Snow
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Essential Questions: What is measurement? What is snow? What would our life be like without measurement?
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Info Access in the Library for Electronic Resource
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Library Reference, Research: Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.
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Communities Provide Goods and Services
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Learning about Goods & Services: What choices do consumers and producers make? What are the consequences of choices that consumers and producers make?
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Life Cycles of the Frog and the Butterfly
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Essential Questions: Why is it important to stop, look, and observe clues in my world? What is the reoccurring themes/patterns evident animal life cycle? How do I locate information on a topic?
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Woodland Animals and Their Habitat
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Students use a variety of media to gain information about specific woodland animals through the use of graphic organizers and a journal. They then use the information to develop an animal report. This unit can be adapted for any grade level and to learn about animals in different habitats.
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Something Fishy Going On
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Essential Questions: What type of a physical environment is necessary for life to exist in the ocean? How are human social needs the same as creatures of the ocean?
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How it all shapes up
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The purpose of this learning experience is to assess the student's knowledge of geometric shapes. They are going to have to identify the 4 plane figures and the 5 solid figures (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, rectangular prism, cylinder, cube, sphere and cone. This experience is designed as a culminating activity to a geometry unit.
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I Have a Bone to Pick With You
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How can animals of long ago be grouped or classified?
Why did animals of long ago become extinct? How does our knowledge of animals of long ago influence our view of animals and our world today?
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Fall Into Winter
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None available.
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Oceans of Fun
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Students will create an ocean life 3D environment.
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Under The Sea
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Students will recoanize defining characteristics of ocean animals and learn their names.
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Trash to Treasure
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Students will be exposed to a wide variety of cross curriculum activities centered on the theme of recycling. Students will work with partners, small cooperative groups, and will also work independently doing a plethora of learning experiences, that include: graphing trash, responding to a recycling question with email, writing a persuasive essay, designing a computer logo, and inventing a recycled product.
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Fatten Up or Freeze
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Essential Question: What might happen to a migratory animal which was unable to migrate? How might a native animal, raised in captivity, survive if released? What adaptations do animals and people need to make to survive in winter?
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Whales
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What different species make up our ecosystem? What are the factors that cause animals to become endangered? How does the loss of a species affect an ecosystem?
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Goodness Corillas in our Community
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The purpose of this learning experience is to extend student's prior knowledge of the term community.
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Creating Pie Graphs Using Percents
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Graphing information.
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Soaring through the Solar System
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The students will be engaged in their learning about our solar system through individual and group activities that focus on research, reading, writing and group work skills. Students will soar through this interdisciplinary unit.
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Castles
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Who lived and worked in a castle community? How was a castle community the same and different from our community? How did castles change over time and become outdated? How did a castle community meet the member's needs of food, clothing and shelter?
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Waddle You Know About Penguins
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Study similarities and differences of the 17 species of penguins.
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Cybernetiquette
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This learning experience will teach students the basics of safety on the Internet. This learning experience will be a perfect beginning to any Internet activity whether it is within a technology curriculum or other content area. This connects to all areas where instruction will lead to exploration of the Internet. This Learning Experience is tied to the unit called Keypals: Communicating Across the Information Superhighway
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