Animal Presentations Ms. Hinshaw’s Daily Goals and Important Questions

Standards Covered Organisms and Their Environments O 4Sb: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and patterns of behavior that allow organisms to survive in their own distinct environments. (Life Science) O 4Sb.1: Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or animals, flowering or non-flowering plants, and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics. O 4Sb.2: Explain how the characteristics of distinct environments (including swamps, rivers and streams, tropical rain forests, deserts, and the polar regions) influence the variety of organisms in each. O 4Sb.3: Explain how humans and other animals use their senses and sensory organs to detect signals from the environment and how their behaviors are influenced by these signals. O 4Sb.4: Distinguish between the characteristics of an organism that are inherited and those that are acquired over time. O 4Sb.5: Explain how an organism’s patterns of behavior are related to its environment (including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment). O 4Sb.6: Explain how organisms cause changes in their environment.

Questions O What group does your animal belong to? O What environment does your animal live in, how does it use that environment to survive, and what behaviors do they display in that environment? O How do they change the environment that they live in? O Do they have a lifecycle? O Other interesting/important information about your animal.

Today’s Goals and Important Questions O Brainstorm Ideas: What type of animal could you research? O Login to the computers and go to one of the KWL chart links I have provided. O Create a KWL Chart: What do you already know about this animal and what do you want to learn?

Today’s Goals and Important Questions O Logon to Discovery Education and find an information video on your animal. O During video, I will walk around and helps search for articles online (teaching digital citizenship).

Today’s Goals and Important Questions O Continue researching your animal: What are other ways that you can find information about your animal? O Create an online web to organize your data: Check out some of the links your teacher has provided and decide which site you would like best. O Discuss possible presentations ideas.

Today’s Goals and Important Questions O Work as a team to create a presentation online: How will you present your information? How will you use technology to make the presentation interesting? O You can choose to create this presentation in a number of different ways.

Today’s Goals and Important Questions O Presentations for today include: -Snakes -Frogs -Buffalo -Cows