Week+1

Welcome to Week 1!

Day 1: Getting Started

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. =====
 * =====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. =====


 * **Time** || **Materials** || **Activities** ||
 * 1st 15 min || * Life Cycle leveled readers
 * Science notebooks
 * Smartboard
 * Smartnotebook file
 * glue sticks
 * circle map || * choose my group members (3 to 4 others)
 * begin to answer "What is a life cycle?" through a circle map
 * understand and create group norms for group work on smartboard ||
 * 2nd 15 min || * Life Cycle leveled readers
 * Science notebooks
 * Smartboard
 * BrainPOP video || * answer " What is a life cycle?"
 * BrianPOP video, graphic organizer on the scientific method
 * create list of steps in scientific method ||
 * 3rd 15 min || * Life Cycle leveled readers
 * Science notebooks
 * Research folders with research templates || * identify the main features of the leveled readers
 * create list of features on smartboard
 * the Life Cycle Project procedure and materials
 * groups decide on an animal to research. ||

Day 2: In the Beginning

Tomorrow 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.
 * know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
 * explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
 * =====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. =====
 * summarize the life cycle: birth, developing into adult, reproducing, aging, and death
 * **Time** || **Materials** || **Activities** ||
 * 1st 15 min || * Research folders with research templates || * research animal according to part of book assigned in group ||
 * 2nd 15 min || * Library books on life cycles
 * Research folders with research templates || * research animal according to part of book assigned in group ||
 * 3rd 15 min || * Life Cycle leveled readers
 * Science notebooks
 * Laptops with Google Doc || * use book to summarize life cycle of animal on Google Doc powerpoint slide show ||