1. United States Animals By Alfonsina C. Crisostomo And Melinda Moya

2. Lesson #Title of LessonBloom’s Taxonomy Gardner’s MI(s)Additive 1 Animals’ Basic NeedsKnowledgeVisual/Spatial Naturalist & Interpersonal Graphic Organizer 2The Cycle of LifeKnowledge & Comprehension Verbal/Linguistic Visual/Spatial & Interpersonal Web 2.0 Clip 3ResemblanceComprehension & Application Visual/Spatial Naturalist Bodily Kinesthetic Manipulatives & Graphic Organizer 4A Matter of SurvivalAnalysisVisual/Spatial Musical/Rhythmic Intrapersonal Scavenger Hunt 5To Be Endangered Or Not to Be SynthesisVisual/Spatial Logical/Mathematical Existentialist Spreadsheet & Graph 6Animals’ Interdependence Comprehension & Evaluation Intrapersonal Visual/Spatial Manipulatives

3. Overview of Unit United States Animals MST Unit seeks to promote critical thinking and scientific inquiry through highly engaging and fun lessons that will enable students not only to learn about Living Organisms, but also to learn about the importance of protecting our environment which is also animals’ environment.

4. Resemblance Lesson # 3 Bloom’s Taxonomy: Level 2: Comprehension, Level: 3 Application. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence: Visual/Spatial, Naturalist, and Bodily/Kinesthetic. Children’s Literature: Animals That Ought To Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets by Richard Michelson

5. Motivational Constructivist Question: Do baby animals look like their parents? Resemblance Lesson # 3

6.  What will I be when I grow up? http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK- 2/AnimalsTwobyTwo/activities/findtheparent.html http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK- 2/AnimalsTwobyTwo/activities/findtheparent.html  Students will try to match pictures of baby animals with their parents.!! Resemblance Lesson # 3

7. Activity Using Manipulaties: Students will sort and classify animal figures in different categories. The first given category is to group baby animals with their corresponding parents. Then, students can create subgroups of their choice by dividing the groups into mammals, birds and carnivores, herbivores, etc. Resemblance Lesson # 3

8. Graphic Organizer Students will use a graphic organizer to represent/show all the groups and subgroups they created.

9. Bloom’s Taxonomy: Level 4: Analysis Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence: Visual/Spatial, Musical/Rhythmic, Intrapersonal. Children’s Literature: Do You Know Us: Guess Who Rhymes about North American Animals by Melvin Taks. A Matter of Survival Lesson # 4  Add lots of pictures

10. Motivational Constructivist Question: How do animals survive when it is extremely cold or extremely hot?

11. Scavenger Hunt Names: Scavenger Hunt Questionnaire 1.How does environmental condition affect animals? 2.How do some animals cope with really hot temperatures? Give examples. 3.How do some animals cope with really cold temperatures? Give examples. 4.If environmental conditions are not the right ones for a group of animals, what can happen? 5.How can an animal habitat get destroyed? 6.How do animals become endangered? 7.List ten United States animals that are endangered

12. 8. Which animal is at the top of the list of endangered animals? How did this animal become endangered? 9. How many Species of mammals are currently endangered and threatened? List separately. 10. How many Species of birds are currently endangered and threatened? List separately. 11. How many Species of reptiles are currently endangered and threatened? List separately. 12. How many species of amphibians are currently endangered and threatened? List separately. 13. How many species of fish are currently endangered and threatened? List separately. 14. How many species of insects are currently endangered and threatened? List separately. 15. What should be done to protect endangered animals? List at least four things. 16. Choose one animal and tell how its population has decreased or increased over time.

13. To Be Endangered or Not to Be Lesson # 5  Bloom’s Taxonomy: Level 5: Synthesis  Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence: Visual/Spatial, Logical/Mathematical, and Existentialist.  Children’s’ Literature: The American Buffalo: The story of the Habits, Hunting, and Near Extinction of the Most Iconic Of American Animals by Anon.

14. What happens when animals’ needs are not met by environmental conditions? Motivational Constructivist Question:

15. Students will use some information collected during the scavenger hunt To create a spreadsheet and a congruent graph to represent the data. Current Status Group EndangeredThreatened Mammals7014 Birds7616 Reptiles1323 Species

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