Term 2- Week 5 (Monday)
Prompt: Investigate the natural environment
Introduction -Today we are going to introduce a new centre called the ‘explorers centre’. We are going to look more closely at the explorer’s centre “Investigate the natural environment”. Explain to students’ when exploring the natural environment in our school garden, we are using are scientist eyes to explore the different types of leaves (have some leaves to demonstrate) bark, sticks, flowers, grass, and insects. Using our scientist eyes, we are accurately drawing what we see in detail. -We are going to watch a video about a student named Austin who improved his work by revisiting it and making changes just like these students in Year One have done. (Some of you have seen this video before, but that’s ok, because each time we watch and listen we have the opportunity to see something new that we may not have noticed before.) Show students Austin’s Butterfly video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqh1MRWZjms -Talk to students about persevering in our work, listening to feedback and making changes to show our learning. Display some examples of student’s work from last week’s learning centre.
Display – a detailed scientific picture of a curl worm’s lifecycle found on the ipad and read the scientific labels. Suggest that student’s can look closely at the curl worm and guess what stage of the lifecycle the worm may be up to and what observation helped them make that decision. Model- how to draw a detailed picture of the curl worm (draw exactly what you see) and find the words to describe what they see to label the details in the picture. Model how to choose adjectives to describe the worm using speechie cards to help. TPS- the colour, size, texture and how it moves and record student’s responses. -Model how to use the labels to write a description of the curl worm to share with others. Students can record descriptions using a voice recorder, video, labelled drawing and writing. Review- the prompt question and the criteria at that centre to be successful. Reflection- Students share their detailed drawings and descriptions with year 1.
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