This hands-on research project features a print-and-go trifold brochure, and two styles of informational text where students can find all the needed content for the project. The 3-2-1 note-taking method is incorporated to teach kids how to use the text to find their information. Includes labeled bat diagrams and blank student copies for them to create an original illustration. Vocabulary key terms are practiced in two different puzzle formats, offering varied difficulty levels and a fun approach. The puzzle comes with a storage pocket that attaches to the brochure to store the pieces. Also included is a "Mammal or Not a Mammal" and "Marsupials" anchor charts. This project makes a great addition to any interactive notebook and comes with a brochure storage pocket--super easy to use. Vocabulary Key Terms Featured: herbivore, nocturnal, crepuscular, mob, joey, pouch, marsupial, extinct This Lesson Includes: Kangaroo Thought Web Pre-Reading Activity Informational Text, Paragraph Format, Color Or Black And White Versions Informational Text Newspaper Heading Format “3-2-1” Note-taking Worksheet Key Word Vocabulary Puzzle Pocket—Answers Filled In Key Word Vocabulary Puzzle Pocket—Blank Copy Advanced Level Key Word Puzzle Pocket Storage Cover to Attach to Brochure Trifold Brochure, Color or Black And White Version Labeled Kangaroo Diagram Color or B/W Versions, With Blank Student Copy Free-hand Illustration Kangaroo Diagram Worksheet Interactive Notebook Brochure Storage Pocket Mammal Anchor Chart, Color or B/W Versions Marsupial Anchor Chart, Color Student Work Examples Detailed Suggestions for Classroom Use Also check out these other projects in my store! All About Bats Foldable Brochure Research Project Also, follow my store and you'll be the first to know about new products, updates, and freebies! All material in this resource is for one classroom teacher. No individual pages can be copied or distributed to another classroom, or used in the creation of other resources. Additional licenses can be purchased for 50% off the original price by going to your purchases and selecting 'Purchase Additional License". If you are less than 100% satisfied with your purchase, please leave me a message through the “Ask a Question” tab in my store. Tags: kangaroos, Australia, marsupials, nocturnal, habitat, joey, pouch, mob, crepuscular, research project, internet use, safe internet, Stellaluna, bats, Halloween, mammals, flying mammals, informational text, note-taking skills, illustration, diagramming, animal conservation, stop pollution, Earth Day, lap book, non-fiction
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It's SHARK WEEK, y'all!! Do you love it as much as I do?? I know that my students are always interested in these amazing creatures. I always use sharks as the guided topic for exploring the informational genre with my kiddos because the students have sooooo many questions about them! Well, today, a team of bloggers have decided to come together to give you some FIN-TASTIC FREEBIES all about sharks to engage your students! Can you imagine how cool your NEW students will think you are if you incorporate SHARK WEEK (or just sharks, in general) into their learning?? Especially if you let them wear these cool shark hats while learning about sharks?? I mean, what kid doesn't want to BE a shark?? {Original Source} So, here's my freebie for you. It's a little organizer booklet to guide our research on sharks. It's the perfect tool for teaching little researchers to take organized notes as they read informational books. {Click to download} Be sure to go for a swim in the linky party below. Every blog in the Shark Week Blog Hop features a fishy freebie for you and your students- but hurry! Shark Week only lasts until Sunday, August 17th : ) An InLinkz Link-up
Animal reports are a fun way to get young students excited about doing research. Today I wanted to show how I differentiate my animal research unit for kindergarten all the way up through fourth grade. This is my 3rd year of doing these projects and I am always so impressed with all of the great work my students produce. My K, 1st, and 2nd graders use the animal research templates found in my All About Animals Research Reports and we use the San Diego Zoo Kids website to do research on an animal. My 3rd and 4th graders use Google Slides to create a multi-media presentation. They do their research right in Google Slides or use Kiddle.co (Google owned, kid safe search website) to do their research. Read more to see how I differentiate these reports for each grade level. Kindergarten: For my kinders, this is a shared research project. I introduce the project, turn on the San Diego Zoo Kids website, and then open up to an animal that we will research together. For this project, my students and I chose the African Elephant to research together. I first had them watch the 3 minute video on African Elephants and then we made a list of things we learned on the board. Then I'd read some of the information listed on the webpage and students would help me add the important information to our list. When doing our research, I always want my students to be able to answer these 3 questions: What do they look like? What do they eat? Where do they live? From our list, students had a lot of information they could use in their reports. Here is a preview of some kindergarteners working on their reports. 1st Grade: In first grade this project usually takes 3 or 4 thirty minute class periods. On day one, I model how to do the research report. I show them how to navigate the San Diego Zoo website and how they can find and choose an animal to research. Together, we choose an animal that we want to research. We read the information together and then add it to our reports. I model how we can take the information and pull out 3 important facts. On days 2-3 the students get to do the project by themselves. They are really good at doing this since I spent the whole first class period modeling how to find information on the website. Most students will finish by the end of day 3, so on day 4 they can color their reports, write a non-fiction story on the back, and if they have time, they can choose another animal to research. 2nd Grade: In second grade, I repeat my 1st grade lesson, but we take it a step further. After we fill out our report, I then have my students open up to a new Word document and type a one page report on their animal. (Students use a size 28 font and leave a spot to draw a picture after they're done.) 3rd Grade: In third grade, we go straight to using Google Slides (you could also use PowerPoint or another similar program) to do the reports. I model how to design a cover page, how to get pictures (just click on Tools - Research and then you can search right in Google Slides), how to do research, and how to add their information into their slides. I spend some time talking about the basics of doing research such as using reliable sources, copyright, and putting the information in their own words. In all, this project takes me 4 thirty minute class periods. At the end, students get to stand up and share their presentations with the class. I love how 3rd graders feel so accomplished for learning how to use Google Slides so proficiently. Here are a couple examples of their cover pages. 4th Grade: My fourth grade classes do the same as the third graders, however they go a little bit deeper. To incorporate the 4th grade state standards, I have students choose a Utah native animal to research, and they have to include a slide about what animal adaptions their animal has to survive. In 4th grade, I teach the basics of writing a bibliography and they must cite their sources at the end. Here's a little peek of part of a 4th grader's project. I absolutely love doing these projects with my students. It's one of my very favorite lessons of the whole year! It really is a great way to meet a lot of important writing and technology standards in an easy to do, engaging research project. And best of all, STUDENTS LOVE IT! If you're interested in the animal report template that my K, 1st, and 2nd graders used, you can find it inside this Wild About Animal Research Report pack. I currently have this pack listed this as half off in my TPT store and will keep it on sale all week. If anyone is wondering what I do with my 5th and 6th graders, I plan to write up some details and post about them next. Hint: 5th graders do American History research reports and 6th grade does Space Reports. More about that later! I'd love to hear your thoughts about animal reports! Do your students love it as much as mine? Any tips and tricks you want to share? Please leave a comment and let us know.
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Print from Google Slides or assign digitally, this biography research project includes 30 different Catholic Saints. Students are required to complete a biography research project and write a prayer to the saint researched. Teach your students how to pray to a saint using the one page text and easily assess the project with the biography research rubric and the oral presentation rubric. Project includes: * 30 Saint Biography Worksheets premade with Saint Pictures * Cover page to make the project into a folder with biography and prayer * Two versions of the written prayer page (one with saint picture and one where students draw the saint.) * Teacher dialogue/handout to teach how to pray to a saint * Two Grading Rubrics/Grading Scales - Biography and Oral Presentation This project is geared towards 3rd-6th grade, but the project could easily be adapted to be used with younger or older students, especially students receiving their sacraments!
K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus
This free animal research project will provide you with a writing unit of study that will help you build excitement about writing informational text in your classroom.
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We study Colorado Animals every year and it is so much fun for kids to delve deeper into the animals we see in our area. I posted about our Publishing Party last year, and this year we did it a bit differently. This was mostly due to the fact that we are running out of time and we have different standards to address this year as our district moves towards Common Core... never a dull moment! I wanted to first teach kids how to organize notes into specific categories. We began by assembling our "Note Card Rings" that consisted of five note cards each a different color, hole-punched in the corner with a binder ring connecting them: On the top of each card, we wrote the topic for that card and a guiding question. Here's how I split it up this year: - Habitat: Where to they live? - Diet: What do they eat? - Description: What do they look like? - Predators/Prey: What do they hunt? What hunts them? - Interesting Facts Of course, you could easily adjust and/or add to these. I liked the Predator/Prey card this year because it tied in nicely with the Science Penguin's Food Webs Unit we were studying in Science Weekly 5 and it added a bit of humor when they realized they were another classmate's predator or prey :) As they researched, this Note Card Ring could be added to with additional cards, if needed, and was easily transportable around the classroom, computer lab, and while meeting with me. Final Presentation We did not do a written report this year, and I needed something engaging, easy, and informative for kids to display what they learned. I landed on File Folder Displays. Here's a quick how-to: I had each student print out a picture of their animal and glue to one of the open tabs: They then had the rest of that class time to add details about their habitat, diet, and/or predators and prey. I had them just use white paper and their own artistic-ness to make the details and they did beautifully :) The next work time, we then looked through our Note Card Ring and chose two facts per card that were the most interesting. These were to be added onto their File Folder Displays in the form of a label, caption, or speech bubble from their animal or other animals that they added (predator/prey/etc.): This was the part I *loved* the most because the kids' quotes were hilarious!! It was wonderful seeing them combine facts but add their personality into their pieces. I should take this time to mention that (as usual), we had a rubric we had developed as a class as we went through each step of the process. I used a similar rubric to last year's, but obviously had to change a few things around. Here's this year's copy: Wilderness Walk At the end of all of this hard work, we had a "Wilderness Walk" where we could go around and see each other's File Folder Displays and learn all about their animal. I gave each student a sheet with the list of animals on it with directions to write one thing you learned about each animal. Because I had two students (sometimes three) working on each animal, this gave them a chance to take notes on some, but not all, of the projects so they didn't feel too overwhelmed. On their tables, students opened up their file folders and placed their note cards near them, in case students wanted to do some additional reading ;) They then walked around collecting facts about other animals. The Wilderness Walk was a huge success! Here's a finished example of one student's Wilderness Walk sheet: Overall, I loved this simple way to display what they had learned and I definitely think I will be using this File Folder Display again in the future-- it was too easy and the final products were too cute to pass up! If you are interested in any of the rubrics and the Wilderness Walk sheet I used, I have added it to my Animal Research Report packet that is a FREEBIE on Google Docs. Have you ever used a File Folder Display for a project? I would love to hear your ideas-- I think there are at least a million other uses :)
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Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and their meanings. Teaching vocabulary consists of several things. 1. Expressing words through multiple meanings. Ex: fly (insect, something a bird can do, a way to travel in a airplane) 2. Giving students the tools they need to effectively communicate orally and in writing. 3. Kids need to be able to explain what words mean as well as understand what they mean. Research shows that students need to be exposed to words in multiple contexts in order for them to stick. Today I'll be sharing how I introduce new vocabulary words in my classroom. This post contains affiliate links. You can see my disclosure here. When introducing vocabulary I like to use the My Turn, Your Turn strategy. This comes from the book Word Nerds:Teaching All Students to Love Vocabulary. This model focuses on 6 things when introducing new vocabulary to students. 1. making predictions about the meaning 2. teaching parts of speech 3. give a kid friendly definition 4. discuss what they already know 5. use it in a sentence Here is an example of how it works. Teacher holds up a vocabulary card with the word bursting. •Teacher chants, “My turn, bursting. Your turn, _______.” •Students fill in the word bursting as they chant together. •Teacher claps the syllables as she slowly and carefully pronounces the word. •“My turn, BUR-STING, 2. Your turn, _________.” •They hold up the number of syllables with their fingers and say the number. • Teacher gives part of speech. • Discuss what you already know about the word. Turn and talk. • Use it in a sentence. Turn and talk. Example 2 •Teacher: All right, the next word for this week is My Turn, breathe, Your Turn, breathe. •Teacher: The word breathe has one syllable. Students clap and show with their fingers. •Teacher: The word breathe is a verb, so it is something that you can do. •Teacher: Ok boys and girls, what do we know about the word breathe? Turn and talk. • Teacher: Breathe is how air moves in and out of your mouth and nose-like an air tank. Model and have students do. •Let’s try it in a sentence, “I want to breathe some fresh air.” Can you try? Turn and talk. We repeat this process with each new word introduced and refer back to this method throughout the week. Once the kids have it down, I'll call on students to lead My Turn, Your Turn to review. I hope you can use this strategy in your classroom. If you are looking for more ways to to implement vocabulary into your classroom, you can check out this post about implementing vocabulary games into your classroom. You can also check out my vocabulary Pinterest board for more ideas.
