Lesson Plan using Technology Standards

Lesson Title Is It Living?

G.L.E.s/Standard/Strands

Science
6-8 1.3.10Sys Understand organisms in ecosystems interact w/& respond to their environment & other orgs

Technology 1.1.1 – Generate ideas and create original works for personal and group expression using a variety of digital tools.

Materials (Tools)
Whole Class

KWL, Science Explorer – Environmental Science (Textbook), Computer, Internet Access
Purpose/Objective/Guiding Question
Student will learn or be able to…

Identify the needs that are met by an organism’s habitat.

Create an original work for personal expression using Microsoft Publisher.

Key Academic Vocabulary

enviornment, ecosystem, organism, system

Do Now

KWL – What do you know about how living things interact with the environment? What do you want to know?

Instructional Strategies/Activities

KWL
Articulate & Display Learning Goals
Questions & Cues
Leveled Questions
Vocabulary
Word Walls
Frayer Model

This lesson will take place over a three day period.

1. KWL – Students will complete the K & W about what they know about how living things interact with the environment.
2. Frayer Models – Students will create Vocab cards for environment, ecosystem, organism, and system.  These will be added to our word wall.
3. Discover Activity page 16 -
   1. This Activity will teach students both about living and non-living things within an environment and how to use a computer application to make notes & label a photograph.
   2. Students will first observe as I explain how to search for a picture, then how to place it into a Publisher document and label the picture.
   3. Students will then use the computer lab to search for a NATURE SCENE and then identify all living and non-living things in the picture.
4. Living Things and the Environment – PowerPoint Notes
   1. Students will use their note packet to take notes about Chapter 1 Section 1 pages 16-21.
   2. Within the PowerPoint will be pictures and video clips to help students better visualize the information.
   3. Students will be asked to write leveled questions based on the information they learned from the PowerPoint
5. Section Review page 21

Debrief

Draw an ecosystem that includes at least three living organisms and three non-living organisms.  The drawing must include a minimum of four colors and each item must be labeled.

Homework

Note packet Pages 1-2 Living Things and the Environment

Assessment:

Formative
Summative

Formative Assessment

Discover Activity

Frayer Models

Section Review

Drawing of Ecosystem

Summative Assessment

Chapter Assessment

Portfolio Evidence

Chapter Assessment

On Demand Assessment on Animal Overpopulation