Brunello, Edgar, Powers

1st Grade Marine Animals UOP

TASKS

* Students will search the internet to find information and pictures of marine life

* Students will copy and paste pictures found onto Clarisworks to be printed

* Students will research marine animals using reference materials from the classroom, library, and computer lab

* Students will apply information gathered to write factual sentences

* Students will use these sentences to create individual books on marine life

 

TOOLS

* Bare Books

* Computer Lab

* Library

* Classroom books

* Internet

* Clarisworks

 

STANDARDS

* TEKS for 1st Grade

* Teacher created curriculum

 

 

ASSESSMENTS

* Design and create a final product incorporating Bare Books, pictures, and student sentences and artwork

* Students will read and share their final creation to class

 

INTERACTIONS

* Individual and small, cooperative groups

* Students will work together in the computer lab and classroom

* The UOP will coincide with the final unit in first grade culminating with a field trip to Sea World to see and learn more about the marine animals they have been studying

 

SITUATIONS

* Computer lab approximately one hour a day for a full week

* Classroom science lessons

* Writing sentences during language arts

* Illustrating stories