All About Animals

Keri GrattaglianoRamapo MSET Program

Summer 2012

Target Audience

– First Grade Students

– Inclusion Classroom

– Science and Language Arts

Students Will Be Able To…•Sort animals by their habitat, number of legs, different body parts, if they have fur, their color, how they move, what they eat, etc.•Write an informative paragraph about their favorite animal including the categories listed above•Create and describe their own animal

Essential Questions

• How are animals alike? • How are animals different?• How can you sort animals into categories?• What can you learn from sorting animals?

Anticipatory Set

• What animals can you hear? • How do you know?• Think about these animals.• How can you describe them?

Read Aloud• Read Aloud What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

• Can you guess which animals we will be reading about?

• Let’s think more like animals! Let’s move!

Click on the book

to hear the story

again!

Categorizing And Sorting

• Let’s sort the animals we have read into many different groups!

• We need to look at what they look like, where they live, what the animal eats, and how they move.

• Click on the blue word to learn more about where animals live.

• Click on this blue word to learn about classifying animals into categories.

Writing

• After sorting numerous animals, it is now time to construct a paragraph.

• remember to write the following details:– what the animal looks like– where the animal lives– what the animal eats– any other interesting facts they have

learned• Don’t forget to write an opening and

closing sentence.

Read Aloud

• Read aloud If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss.• Click on the picture below to listen and

read along.

Project

• Now it is time for you to create your very own animal.

• You will need partners.• Both of these pages are needed to help you focus

on your topic.• You will be presenting your projects to the class so

be ready to answer questions.

Click on the alligator to open the directions and get started.

Click on the lion to begin your writing.

Center Activities• Play a game online!

• Magazine Fun

• Using clay, make real or imaginary animals.

• Rhyme Time

Extra Activities • Create another animal by clicking on the zebra.

• Go on a webquest!

Evaluation

• Prewriting Page• Categorizing animals worksheet• Categorizing animals exit ticket• Center Activities• Informative Writing Rubric– This will be used for both writing

pieces.

Teacher Page

• Storytelling Map 1• Storytelling Map 2• Understanding by Design template• Standards• Garner’s Multiple Intelligences• Bloom’s Taxonomy• Gregorc’s Learning Styles• Sense and Meaning• Works Cited• Images Cited

StandardsLanguage Arts Common Core Standards•L.1.5(b): Define words by category and by one or more key attributes •W.1.2: Write informative/ explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure NJ CCCSScience•5.3.2.A.1 Group living and nonliving things according to the characteristics that they share.•5.3.2.E.2 Describe how similar structures found in different organisms (e.g., eyes, ears, mouths) have similar functions and enable those organisms to survive in different environments.

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Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Logical/ Mathematical

•Creating an animal•Exploring how animals are alike/ different

Visual/ Spatial

•Drawing•Making charts•Multimedia•Creating a clay animal•Magazine fun

Bodily/ Kinesthetic

•Moving like an animal•Creating an animal in clay

Musical

•Playing the animal movement song•Playing animal sounds while working

Naturalist

•Learning about nature (animals and their environments)

Intrapersonal

•Writing their own paragraphs•Working on center activities

Linguistic

•Read aloud•Paragraph writing•Rhyme time

Interpersonal

•Working with partners•Class discussions

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Gregorc’s Learning StylesBack to

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Sense and Meaning

• Sense– Students enjoy learning about animals. They begin mimicking sounds

at a young age. They already categorize animals by where they live, such as the wild, the farm, or in their homes. Students understand that animals can be similar and can be very different. Students can connect to categorizing and sorting animals, because they have some prior knowledge of animals.

• Meaning- Students will find meaning in this exploration of animals, because they will be creating their own animal in the end. They will be building new knowledge about animals throughout the lesson and are expecting to show what they know through a creative way.

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Works Cited• Animal Action song. Harry Kindergarten, 2010. Film. 28 Jul 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=_lhYjSgkZgg>. • Churches, Andrew. "Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally." TechLearning. N.p., April 1, 2008. Web. 28 Jul

2012. <http://www.techlearning.com/article/blooms-taxonomy-blooms-digitally/44988>. • Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books.• Grade 3, Theme 4, Animal Habitats.wmv . Dir. curriculum companion. Houghton Mifflin, 2009. Film. 28

Jul 2012. • Gregorc, A. (1985). Gregorc style delineator. a self-assessment instrument for adults.• Houghton Mifflin, , prod. Grade 3, Theme 4, Animal Habitats.wmv. curriculumcompanion, 2009. Film. 28

Jul 2012. • Introduction. Prod. 100% Educational Videos. 100% Educational Videos, 2000. Discovery Education.

Web. 29 July 2012. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>. • Jenkins, Steve, and Robin Page. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Print. • "New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards." New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards Resource.

New Jersey Department of Education. 22 Jan. 2006 <http://education.state.nj.us/njsdb/>. • Seuss, Dr. If I Ran the Zoo. Oceanhouse Media, eBook. • Sousa, D. (2001). How The Brain Learns. 2nd Edition. California, Corwin Press, Inc.• Sweger, Kara. "School Zoo Adventure." . N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jul 2012.

<http://www.nycsd.k12.pa.us/tchr/sweger/questks/index.html>. • "The Standards » English Language Arts Standards." Common Core State Standards. N.p., n.d. Web. 28

Jul 2012. <http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards/>. • "What Kind of Animal Is This?." Sheppard Software. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jul 2012.

<http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/kidscorner_games.htm>.

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Image Credits• Background

– http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT010238336.aspx– celebaddicts.com (cheetah print)

• Pictures– Clip art (all animals not listed below)– cartoon-animals-homepage.clipartonline.net (Clip Art Animals)– onceuponagoodtime.com (book)– doyourownpestcontrol.com (Mole)– en.wikipedia.org (jackrabbit)– globalanimal.org (humpback whale)– giraffes.org (giraffe)– quantumbiologist.wordpress.com (four eyed fish)– southwesternherp.com (horned lizard)– wildadventures.com (bush baby)– homewithpurpose.blogspot.com (blue-footed booby)– fcps.edu (water strider)– biolib.cz (gecko)– thefeaturedcreature.com (archerfish)– sciencephoto.com (egg-eating snake)– appsforipads.net (If I Ran the Zoo book)

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