Friday, February 17, 2012
Theme: Endangered Species/Extinction
Throughout my thematic unit on Endangered species/extinction, I want students to take with them the history of the extinction of species and how to help endangered species with an assortment of literature. This literature will help explain how this has happened over time and is still currently happening across cultures and societies today.
Purpose:
My 1st graders LOVE science and I love the idea of how much literature is going to be brought into this unit. I hope to see myself reading books aloud to my students and students reading books to them and sharing with others. As I have been thinking about how these students will be using books with this unit, I love the idea of having an "Endangered species/Extinction" notebook/folder and as we read stories and learn vocabulary or anything else, this will be a great place to write down students’ thoughts and their findings on species. I'm looking forward to learning right along with these students.
Grade Level: 1st-3rd grade
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What great connections you are making here. I love the science connection as well as how people through time have addressed extinction and how it has impacted society. Have fun with this
ReplyDeleteLysney-I thought I had posted a response to this a couple of weeks ago... Sorry, still figuring out the technology. Anyway, I too love the idea of using literature in your science unit. It's also great that you are able to expand your curriculum and focus on a subject the children are interested in learning. The other thought that popped into my head was you may have an opportunity to show the children the difference between fiction, non-fiction, and textbook type writing and how we read these texts a bit differently.
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