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Dates: || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday || March 8-12 || Lesson #1 -Begin reading novel -Introduction to unit || Lesson #2 -Read novel || Lesson #3 -Read Novel || No students ** PD Day ** || No students ** PD Day ** || March 15-19 || Lesson #4 -Read novel || Lesson #5 -Read novel || Lesson #6 -Read novel || Lesson #7 -Read novel || Lesson #8 -Read novel || March 22-26 || Lesson #9 -Read novel || Lesson #10 -Read novel || Lesson #11 -Read novel || Lesson #12 -Read novel || Lesson #13
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 * //Watch Fantastic Mr. Fox//** ||

Rationale: It is important for students to begin to understand that the world that we live in is interconnected. The topic that I selected is animals and the food chain. This is a grade three science unit. The food chain shows how humans are connected with plants and animals. Without the energy that humans receive from plants and animals, they would not be able to survive. Therefore, humans are connected with everything around us for survival. This unit also discusses how other animals are connected to each other and to plants. I will use the novel Fantastic Mr. Fox to help the students to understand that without food, animals and humans can not survive. The part of the novel when Bogus, Bunce and Bean try to starve the foxes, shows the students that animals need food for survival. Also, without food animals/humans get very weak and cannot perform their normal every day tasks. I will read two chapters every day to the students and will finish the novel before I leave at the end of my pre-internship. Throughout this unit, I want the students to understand the food chain using a variety of different methods. The students will participate in learning centres, research, webbing activities, etc. All of these activities hopefully will increase the student’s knowledge of food chains and how everything is interconnected. b) Scope/Sequence:   Lesson #1    During this lesson, I want to get the students thinking about what foods they eat. Also, get the students to understand if the foods they eat are plants or animals. This will lead into what animals eat. During this lesson, I will brainstorm with the students about food and gain a sense of their prior knowledge about food. I will also begin reading //Fantastic Mr. Fox//.    Lesson #2    This lesson will be an introduction of food chains. I will start by doing a KWL chart. This will give me a sense of prior knowledge and also the students questions will drive the unit direction. We will play a game trying to find out who are the predators and who are the prey. I will go over some definitions before we begin playing the game. I will end by reading more of the novel.    Lesson #3    During this lesson I will read a different version of the //Three Little Pigs//, by Roald Dahl. Students will have to identify who in the story was the prey and who was the predator. Lesson #4 This lesson will discuss what food webs are. We will play a game (possibly in the gym) where students have to throw their ball of yarn to the animal that would eat them. This shows them that food chains are interconnected. Lesson #5 Discuss the significance that animals play in the First Nation’s culture. Read a myth with the students. It is important for students to understand the Lesson #6 Learning Centres Lesson #7 This lesson I will begin by explaining what a non-fiction book is. Then I will get the students thinking about how they can use information from these books to gain knowledge. I will ask them what kinds of information they want to find out about the animal that they will be researching. With a partner they can choose a book, find an animal and find out about the animal. Lesson #8 Students will be    Lesson #9 Lesson #10 Lesson #11 Begin concluding the unit by reviewing Lesson #12 Lesson #13 Celebration of learning. Hope to watch //Fantastic Mr. Fox//. The release date is March 23, 2010 so I should have the movie by then. c) Rationale:   Why doing this?    d) Content Web: e) Foundational and Learning Objectives:   Observe and Record    Describe    Explain the effect    f) Essential Question How are living things interconnected in the food chain? g) Unit/Content Questions   Unit:    What do humans need to survive?    What do animals need to survive?    How does animal food and human food differ?    Why do some animals eat meat and others only plants?    How do animals obtain food?    Content:    Lesson #1    What do humans eat?    What do animals eat?    What is a novel?    What is an author/illustrator?    Are all books real?    Lesson #2    Lesson #3    Lesson #4    Lesson #5    Lesson #6    Lesson #7    Lesson #8    Lesson #9    Lesson #10    Lesson #11    Lesson #12    Lesson #13    h) Curriculum Connection Science: 1. Explain some food chains and food webs 1.1 Identify foods for humans. 1.2 Identify foods for animals. 1.3 Describe some food webs involving humans. 1.4 Describe food webs in your locale which do not involve humans. 1.5 Apply the terms predator, prey, grazers, scavenger to the members of the food chains identified. English Language Arts: Listen to a range of grade-level appropriate texts in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. Learn about and practise the skills and strategies of effective listeners. i) Common Essential Learning   COM: Communication    CCT: Critical and Creative Thinking    IL: Independent Learning    NUM: Numeracy    PSVS: Personal and Social Values and Skills    TL: Technological Literacies    j) Cross-curricular Competencies k) Adaptive Dimension   The students are not going to be given a lot of time to work alone. I am pairing the students up to do research about the animal they are choosing. I am pairing the students up because some students will not be able to stay on task if they are by themselves. Also, for the EAL learners, having a partner will help them to     l) Cross-Cultural Content m) Assessment Techniques   -listing specific criteria and observing whether or not the students are achieving the criteria.    n) Technology Incorporation o) Fact and Info Page   []    []    What is a food chain?    All living things need food for energy and to grow. Animals cannot make produce their own food. Animals get their food from plants or other animals. Animals are called consumers, while plants are called producers. A food chain refers to how living organisms get their food. They must consume plants or animals in order to survive. For example:                 Grass Grasshopper Toad Snake Hawk    Grass  is eaten by  Grasshopper  is eaten by  Toad  is eaten by  Snake  is eaten by  Hawk   A food chain always starts with a green plant, which is eaten by an animal, and end by a predator eating an animal. The predator will die; his body will decompose and be food for the grass. Therefore, food chains are cyclical and interconnected. Food chains always depend on the population of each member of the chain for it to run smoothly. A food chain only shows one chain of animals.                  What is a food web? A food web shows many different ways a food chain can occur. For example: From this picture we can gather that most animals have more than one predator and so there are many different pathways for a food chain. The food chain could be Krill Squid Penguin Leopard Seal or it could be Krill Fish Seal Killer Whale and so on. What is a predator? A predator is at the top of the food chain. An organism that lives by preying on other organisms. One that victimizes, plunders, or destroys, especially for one's own gain. What is prey? Prey is an animal hunted or caught for food. What are grazers? A grazers is a herbivore who eats plants. What is a scavenger? One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food. An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter. What is a herbivore? What is a carnivore? What is a omnivore? p) Materials and Resources   Resources    Capeci, Anne. //The Magic School Bus Chapter Book: Food Chain Frenzy//. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2003.    Chinery, Michael. //Plants and Planteaters//. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2000.    Dahl, Roald. //Fantastic Mr. Fox//. New York: Puffin Books, 1970.    Dahl, Roald. //Revolting Rhymes//. New York: Puffin Books, 1982.    Johansson, Philip. //The Temperate Forest: A Web of Life//. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2004.    Johansson, Philip. //The Wide Open Grasslands//: //A Web of Life//. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2004.    Kalman, Bobbie. //Food Chains and You//. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2005.    Kalman, Bobbie. //Forest Food Chains.// New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2005.    Kalman, Bobbie. //What is a Carnivore?// St. Catherines: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2008. Kalman, Bobbie. //What is a Herbivore?// St. Catherines: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2008. Kalman, Bobbie. //What is an Omnivore?// St. Catherines: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2008. Kalman, Bobbie and Amanda Bishop. //What are Wetlands?// New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2003. Kalman, Bobbie and Jacqueline Langille. // What are Food Chains and Webs //. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 1998. Kalman, Bobbie and Kelley Macauley. //A Grassland Habitat.// New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2007. Kalman, Bobbie and Kelley Macauley. //Meadow Food Chains.// New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2005. Kalman, Bobbie and Kelley Macauley. //Prairie Food Chains.// New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2005. Kalman, Bobbie and Kelley Macauley. //Tundra Food Chains//. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2005. Kalman, Bobbie and Kylie Burns. //Wetland Food Chains//. St. Catherines: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2007. Lock, Deborah and Lorrie Mack. //Forests//. London: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc., 2004. Lynch, Wayne. //Arctic Alphabet: Exploring the North From A to Z//. Willowdale, Ontario: Firefly Books, 1999. Nye, Bill. //Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Great Big Dinosaur Dig//. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. Parker, Steve. //Adaptation//. Chicago: Reed Educational & Professional Publishing, 2001. Wallace, Holly. //Food Chains and Webs//. Chicago: Reed Educational & Professional Publishing, 2001. q) Lesson Plans  Lesson Plan #1    Name: Bethann Husband Teacher: Jeannine Pelletier    Subject: Topic:     Grade:
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