Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.4. Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Ask the students what is important about the sense of touch
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
Students should observe the weather, the number of daylight hours, and any changes in the tree they notice.
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 2 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Plan and conduct an investigation collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence to answer a question.
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts. 7 – Stability and Change. K-2. Some things stay the same while other things change.
use them as prompts for writing about trees
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Writing.K.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Writing.1.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Writing.2.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Discuss the following questions to help students deepen their understanding
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.K.1.A. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.1.1.A. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.1.A. 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).
Challenge students to conduct other observations of the tree,
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 2 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Plan and conduct an investigation collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence to answer a question.
record descriptive words, including adjectives and adverbs, in their tree journals
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Language.2.6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Ask students to turn to their neighbor and describe the tree, encouraging them to use all of their senses.
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 2 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Make observations (firsthand or from media) and/or measurements to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
Lead an open-ended discussion about the objects and the sorting activity
Common Core. ELA-Literacy.Speaking and Listening.2.1.A. 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).
Looking at all of the objects together, in what ways are they all alike
NGSS Performance Expectation. 2-PS1-1 – Matter and its Interactions. Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- …
- 14
- Next Page »