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Introduction to Biomes, Animals, and Habitats
Today, in class, we will be introduced to biomes, the habitats within them, and the animals that live in those habitats. In class, we will have a discussion about what biomes and habitats are, what kinds of animals live in those areas, how those animals survive in those particular regions (ex. growing fur, are nocturnal, what they eat, etc), and how humans have habitats of their own and how humans can have positive and negative effects on the natural habitats of animals. We will also discuss why it is important to preserve the habitats of animals and what actions will help humans to preserve those habitats (like recycling).
the discussion. Make sure to practice good listening skills and be respectful of the other students who are trying to watch the video, too. No chatting during the video will be best!
After the discussion, each of you will individually write a reflection about what we discussed.
You can reflect on:
Today, you will be placed into groups to complete an online scavenger hunt about biomes, animals, habitats, ways that humans positively and negatively effect natural habitats, and ways that humans can help to preserve natural habitats.
Your group must research the answers to this scavenger hunt, using the internet.
Read the questions carefully. When you are searching for the answers, make sure to read the information from the websites carefully as well!
There will be one PC and one Laptop for each group.
participating equally! Working well with your team is very important to get this assignment finished!
Here are two websites that will help you with the scavenger hunt:
The World's Biomes
Today, we will get together with our groups to do a research assignment.
There will be one PC computer and one laptop per group.
research further. Take votes or speak to your group members kindly and clearly to explain your opinions. Again, working well with your group is very important for this assignment!
Your group must research:
what the animal's habitat is
many interesting facts about the animal that you have found in your research
You will be given the whole class period to conduct your research. Everyone should participate in some way to the research.
Read the information from the websites carefully!
Here are some helpful websites that you can use for your research:
What's It Like Where You Live?
SUGGESTION: Assign jobs to your group members. Have some people in charge of researching the facts and pictures, some people in charge of writing down and organizing the information, and some people in charge of planning out the slides. You can also take turns with the jobs.
REMINDER: Remember, on Monday, I gave you all an outline of what the week's activities will be like. Keep in mind that your group will be making a PowerPoint presentation about the animal you have chosen to research. Keep track of your research and keep it organized!
→I will show you how to make folders to save your work and the websites in.
→Each group is allowed to print no more than FOUR pages. Therefore, remember how to make folders on the computer and save your research and other work in these folders.
Thursday:
Group PowerPoint Presentations
At the end of your presentation, be sure to include which websites you used on your last slide. This slide will be called the Works Cited Slide.
We will try to have every group present their PowerPoints today. If we do not finish the presentations today, we will have the groups who are left present tomorrow.
→It is very important that everyone practices good listening skills when others are presenting!
→It is also important for everyone in the group to speak and present their part of the presentation clearly--make good eye contact with the audience, speak loud enough for everyone to hear you, don't play with your hair or clothing when presenting!
Friday:
Class Video!
what we have learned about biomes, habitats, and the animals that live in those habitats
we will also have in our video ways that humans can help to preserve biomes and natural habitats, AND why it is important.
as a class,class and take
We must use good teamwork skills to get this assignment completed the way we would all like it to be done.
If we do not finish the video today, we will have a little bit of time on Monday to finish it.
When our video is finished, the other Fourth Grade teachers and their classes want us to share our video with them.
charge of the answering any the video. Remember to use good speaking and presenting skills!!
Pictures used on this wiki page were found from google images:
→Recycling Picture found at- www.coflt.net/ scott/webquests/

The students, when put into groups and given a computer (and a laptop) for each group, will also be able to research answers to a scavenger hunt about different biomes, animals and their habitats, and create a power point presentation, to be presented to the class, as a group, on one animal and it's habitat that the group has agreed on researching further. The students will do this with 85% accuracy.
The students as a class, with the aid of the teacher, will create a class video about what they have learned about biomes, animals, and habitats, and how humans can help to preserve natural habitats. The video will be shown to other classes in the grade, and the students will conduct a question/answer session with the classes they present to. All of this will be done with 100% accuracy.
The→The Bloom's Taxonomy
S--Select Media and Materials:
The media and materials needed are:

When our video is finished, the other Fourth Grade teachers and their classes want us to share our video with them.
You all, as a class, will be in charge of the answering any questions the students, or teachers, have about the video.
Pictures used on this wiki page were found from google images:
→Recycling Picture found at- www.coflt.net/ scott/webquests/
→Animal Habitats Picture found at- www.eltnews.com/ columns/david_lisgo/
→Biomes Picture found at- gamesforward.com/ Biomes.html

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This website is useful for any teacher, as well as students of all ages. It has pages among pages of free graphics, pictures, and clipart for teachers and students to use when creating assignments or projects. It is always important to be aware of copyright laws in an educational setting because visuals are used often, for a wide range of assignments.
9. Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
they can and cannot use certain busy schedules! Therefore, having a quick and easy chart to refer to when planning lessons will help teachers remember all of their rights when they plan to use certain media or text in their lessons or classrooms.

This website has many examples of elementary science lessons written by elementary school teachers. The lessons have technology integrated into them in very beneficial and creative ways. This website can be useful to any elementary school teachers, especially new teachers, because there are some really creative and interesting ideas that integrate technology. If a teacher does not want to use one of these lessons, the website is still useful because it provides some great examples that teachers can build on.
7. Writing Objectives
This website is helpful in that it provides some very useful information on the importance of clear, well written objectives. It also provides many examples of well written objectives, as well as ones that are not quite there. You can also find some information on the ABCD model/method for writing objectives, which really helps to make objectives easy to understand and very informative. The website also includes some examples of typical problems one will encounter when writing objectives and ways to correct them. This is a great website for any teacher, but again, new teachers could benefit from this website even more because it will give them very useful and relevant information on a skill they may still be working on.
8. Classroom Clipart
This website is useful for any teacher, as well as students of all ages. It has pages among pages of free graphics, pictures, and clipart for teachers and students to use when creating assignments or projects. It is always important to be aware of copyright laws in an educational setting because visuals are used often, for a wide range of assignments.
9. Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
This website contains an informative chart that breaks down, for teachers, in a very clear and easy format, ways in which they can and cannot use certain forms of media or text. This is important for all teachers because it is not uncommon to lose sight of how easy it is to, accidentally, violate copyright and fair use laws with such busy schedules!

This is another helpful tool for using the appropriate verbs when writing learning objectives, based on Bloom's Taxonomy levels. This is displayed in a list format, in columns, which is easy to read and locate verbs. There are many more verbs presented in this list format than there are in the verb wheel. It seems more useful to have a few different verb references when writing objectives and creating lessons, which is why this is provided along with the verb wheel.
6.Best Practices of Technology Integration
This website has many examples of elementary science lessons written by elementary school teachers. The lessons have technology integrated into them in very beneficial and creative ways. This website can be useful to any elementary school teachers, especially new teachers, because there are some really creative and interesting ideas that integrate technology. If a teacher does not want to use one of these lessons, the website is still useful because it provides some great examples that teachers can build on.
7. Writing Objectives
8. Classroom Clipart