Theme: Penguins
Stage 1 –
Desired Results
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Established Goals: (Resources – CCSS ELA, Illinois Social
Studies Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, Illinois Fine Arts
Standards)
CCSS RI.K.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic
and retell details of
the text.
CCSS W.K.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects. (shared
writing)
CCSS W.K.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information
from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. (propose a question and students use
provided resources to find the answer to the question)
CCSS K.L.5 Sort objects into categories (flightless and flighted
birds)
CCSS K.MD.2 Compare/Contrast
two objects (flightless and flighted birds)
CCSS K.G.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes,
and describe relative positions of theme objects using terms suck as above,
below, beside, in front of, behind and next to. (sphere and hemisphere)
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Understandings:
Student will
understand that…
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Form follows
function (American Architect, Louis Sullivan)
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Essential
Questions:
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Why
can’t penguins fly?
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Students will know…
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Vocabulary
– flightless, sphere, webbed, tobogganing, Antarctica
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Penguins
are flightless birds that live in the southern hemisphere
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Penguins
have small flipper-like wings that make them excellent swimmers
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Penguins
and other flightless birds have smaller wings in comparison to their bodies
than flying birds
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Penguins
have shorter wing feathers than flying birds
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Students will be
able to (skills)…
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Identify main topic
of an informational book
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Retell details from
informational books
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Gather information from
provided resources to answer a question
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Sort objects into
categories
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Compare/contrast two objects
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Describe objects in
the environment using the name of the shape (sphere, hemisphere)
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Stage 2 –
Assessment Evidence
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Performance Tasks:
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Gather information from resources and draw a
penguin showing characteristics (shorts legs, pudgy body, flipper-like wings
and beak)
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Retell details from readings and other
resources to add to class web
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Exit slips – identify the earth as a sphere,
model a sphere from play dough, describe other items in the environment that
are sphere shaped
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Compare/contrast pictures of flying and
flightless birds
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Stage 3 –
Learning Plan
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Learning
Activities:
1. Cut and Paste
penguins (directed)
2.
Popplet graphic
organizer showing initial guesses to essential question (shared)
3.
After listening
to book tub titles and book titles, select books best used to answer question
4.
iPad App
ABCmouse (penguin facts and quiz)
5.
iPad App
California Academy of Science (videos and live cams)
6.
iPad App Pocket
Zoo (penguin sounds, videos, cams)
7.
iPad App World
Book Animals (whole group – too much reading)
8.
Read
informational text – National
Geographic Kids: Penguins, Baby Penguin, Face-to-Face Penguins, Scholastic
Science Readers Level 1 Penguins, Pierre the Penguin (a True Story)
9.
Read fiction
text – Tacky the Penguin (book and
app), Tacky in Trouble, Penguin Pete, Ahoy!
10.
Website: www.wonderopolis (projector together-video
and text –What is an Emperor Penguin,
Why can’t penguins fly?)
11.
Penguin live cam
Sea World San Diego
12.
Writing Prompt: How would you teach a penguin to fly?
13. Diving experiment (2 liter bottles, different shapes of clay, which shape "dives" through the water fastest? |
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