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 * __Reading in Science Content: Non-fiction: Where Plants and Animals Live __**

//Rationale: // Through a variety of strategies and activities, the second and third grades science curriculum, begins to prepare the students for the fourth grade science PSSA. Concurrently, reading in science content, provides cross-curricular opportunities, not only to build the science foundation, but also to increase reading scores, specifically in the area of non-fiction. //Subjects/Courses //: Science, Reading, Art, Language Arts //Essential Questions: // 1. The students will understand the relationships among living and non-living things. 2. The students will understand that an animal’s needs and habitat affect its survival.

//Standards/Eligible Content: // __GRADE 3- Science and Ecology __ Standard- 4.1.3.E: Identify changes in the environment over time. Anchor Descriptor- S3.B.3.1.2: Describe the interactions between living and nonliving components of an ecosystem (e.g., plants [water, sunlight]; animals [air, shelter]). __GRADE 3- Geography __ Standard- 7.1.3.A: Identify how basic geographic tools are used to organize and interpret information about people, places and environment. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Standard- 7.1.3.B: Identify and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">GRADE 3- Reading Writing Speaking and Listening __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Standard - 1.6.3.A: Listen critically and respond to others in small and large group situations. Respond with grade level appropriate questions, ideas, information, or opinions. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Anchor Descriptor- R3.A.2.5: Summarize a nonfictional text as a whole. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">GRADE 2- Reading Writing Speaking and Listening __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Standard- 1.6.2.A: Listen actively and respond to others in small and large group situations; Respond with grade level appropriate questions, ideas, information, or opinions. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Standard- 1.2.2.E: Read, understand, and respond to essential content of text in all academic areas. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Standard-1.1.2.D: Demonstrate comprehension / understanding before reading, during reading, and after reading on grade level texts through strategies such as think aloud, retelling, summarizing, note taking, connecting to prior knowledge, supporting assertions about text with evidence from text, and non-linguistic representations.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Common Core Standards: // __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Common Core - Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.W.3 Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.W.3.a Text Types and Purposes: Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.W.3.b Text Types and Purposes: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.W.2.b Text Types and Purposes: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.SL.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.SL.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.4.SL.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.SL.3 Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">CC.3.SL.6 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 on page 26 for specific expectations.)

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Vocabulary: // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">ecosystem, habitat, survival, needs (space, arrangement, food, water, shelter); lentic water, (still/relatively still) and lotic water (moving) water systems, nocturnal, diurnal, food chain, life cycle, stalagmites and stalactites, trogloxene, troglophiles, and troglobites, guano.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Objectives: // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">The learner will develop the meaning to respecting nature through school visitation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">The learner will know the meaning to lotic and lentic water systems through readings and hands-on experiences in the cave. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">The learner will work with others to create a life size cave and the wildlife in and outside the cave by completing art projects. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">The learner will

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Duration: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">1-2 weeks

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Materials: // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Moving water system and still water system. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Leveled fiction and non-fiction readers <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Sylvan Dell e-books (only available by access code)

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Suggested Instructional Strategies: //

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Instructional Procedures //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Formative Assessment: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Pretest and pretest on knowledge of installation art and cave life.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Related Materials & Resources: // <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';"> 1. Leveled nonfiction readers <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';"> 2. Project Wildlife <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';"> 3. Ebooks (access code required)

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Author: Kimberly Harvey, Tracey Kampian, Nancy Lescovitz

Grade Level: second and third

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