Phase: | After/Explain/Elaborate |
Activity: | After Strategy/Explain & Elaborate: 60+ minutes
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Assessment Strategies: | Formative Assessment: The teacher should observe students during the after strategy of this lesson as students research their chosen animal to ensure students are collecting accurate information that will be useful in the writing project. The teacher should review each student’s Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Graphic Organizer to ensure students have followed directions and understand each section of the graphic organizer. Summative Assessment: To formally assess students, the teacher should review each student’s final draft of the writing piece. The teacher can ensure the student met the objectives of this lesson by assessing student’s writing using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Checklist. |
Advanced Preparation: | Student Background Information: Students will need to be familiar with the terms trait and environment and how these terms relate to living things. Students will need to have background knowledge regarding the different habitats of living things, which is related to the Second Grade Alabama Course of Study Standard 7: 7.) Obtain information from literature and other media to illustrate that there are many different kinds of living things and that they exist in different places on land and in water (e.g., woodland, tundra, desert, rainforest, ocean, river). This activity will require students to conduct research using print or digital sources and take brief notes. This lesson will also require students to develop an explanatory writing piece in a claim-evidence-reasoning format. If students do not have experience with these two skills, the teacher may wish to provide more scaffolding and support during the after strategy of this lesson. Visit Can an Animal's Traits be Influenced by the Environment? lesson plan to learn more about this activity and additional lesson procedures to redeliver this Science activity in the classroom. |
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Notes or Recommendations (optional): | To learn more about integrating the practice of scientific argumentation in your classroom, please visit "Integrating Scientific Argumentation into Your Classroom: Using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Framework." |
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