Week+3

Welcome to Week 3!

Day 1: And the Cycle Ends...or Does It?

Today we will:
 * participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners and follow agreed upon rules, while building on each other's talk.
 * be actively involved in exploring the natural world posing questions and seeking answers through observation and time to talk about our observations and compare ours with others.
 * use oral language, drawings, and models to communicate results and explanations of our findings.
 * summarize the life cycle: birth, developing into adult, reproducing, aging, and death
 * compare the life cycles of animals
 * remember that organisms differ from and are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism.

Day 2: Research, Research, Research
 * **Time** || **Materials** || **Activities** ||
 * 1st 15 min || * Science notebooks
 * Smartboard
 * Smartnotebook file || * discuss similarities and differences between parents and their offspring in science notebooks
 * make a list of how parents and offspring can be the same or differ ||
 * 2nd 30 min || * Life Cycle leveled readers
 * science notebooks
 * Smartboard || * students in groups read life cycle books
 * complete circle map of "What is a Life Cycle?"
 * teacher goes over tomorrow's wrap up activity by modeling ||

Today we will:
 * participate in a shared research and writing project.
 * participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners and follow agreed upon rules, while building on each other's talk.
 * use oral language, drawings, and models to communicate results and explanations of our findings.
 * **Time** || **Materials** || **Activities** ||
 * 1st 20 min || * Library books on life cycles
 * Research folders with research templates || * research animal according to part of book assigned in group ||
 * 2nd 20 min || * laptops
 * science notebooks
 * Leveled Readers || * complete venn diagram online
 * begin working on group book sections ||

[|Venn Diagram]