1. Learning about Habitats By Wanda McRae-Jones
Turtle Bay
Learning about Habitats
By Wanda McRae-Jones

2. Georgia Performance Standards
S3L1. Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat.
ELAGSE3RL2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
ELAGSE3RL5: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
ELAGSE3RI2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

3. Can all animals and plants live in any part of Georgia?
ENGAGE
Can all animals and plants live in any part of Georgia?

4. W (What do we want to learn?) L (What have we learned?)
K (What do we know?)
W (What do we want to learn?)
L (What have we learned?)

5. Explore and Explain
Let’s read Turtle Bay by Saviour Pirotta

6. Follow-up Activities Whole Group/Small Group
Teacher and students will complete a story map of the book with character, setting, and plot. Use web online source: for story mapping online forms.
Teacher and students will write an informational piece (whole group) about sea turtles.
EXTEND As an extension, individual students can recreate a scene from the book and narrate it using Alice 2.4 programming.

7. Documentation of Resources
3rd Grade Habitats Framework
(Turtle Bay by Saviour Pirotta)