AUGUSTA COUNTY SCHOOLS
CURRICULUM MAP
Submitted by Churchville Elementary School 2013
CONTENT: 1.7 Part 2TOPIC:
CONTENT
What do your students need to KNOW? / DEMONSTRATORS
What do your students need to be able to DO? / ASSESSMENT
How will you assess what your students ALREADY KNOW, and assess WHAT THEY’VE LEARNED? / ACTIVITIES
HOW will you teach it?
All students will know:
· Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans.
· There are relationships between daily and seasonal changes.
· Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation can be observed and recorded over time. / Students will:
· Compare and contrast the activities of some common animals during summer and winter by describing changes in their behaviors and body covering.
· Compare and contrast how some common plants appear during summer and winter.
· Comprehend at an introductory level that some animals respond to seasonal changes by hibernating or migrating.
· Infer what the season is from people’s dress, recreational activities, and work activities.
· / KWL chart where children tell what they know about each season, what they want to know, and at the end of the unit what they learned about each season
Observation of sorts-have children sort pictures of seasonal dress and recreational and work activities based on the four seasons
Observation of sorts-have children sort pictures of plants and/or animals based on seasonal changes
Draw and label-draw a plant or animal in each of the four seasons / Read books about hibernation and migration (fiction and non- fiction)
Picture sorts of body coverings and behaviors
Draw a tree in four seasons art/science projects
Picture sorts of seasonal changes
Draw and label and write 3 facts
Draw and label-draw and label a plant or animal in each of the four seasons and write 3 facts about that plant or animal
Books (see list in resources)
DIFFERENTIATION
How will you meet the needs of all students? / RESOURCES
picture sorts of seasonal dress and recreational and work activities based on four seasons
picture sorts of plants and animals based on seasonal changes / TEACHER NOTES:
Group kids cooperatively
Think, Pair, share with different ability groups
Enrichment activity-have children sort pictures of plants and animals based on seasonal changes / Books:
Gardener's Alphabet by Mary Azarian
One Child, One Seed: A South African Counting Book by Kathryn Cave
Autumn Leaves by Ken Robbins
Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy
Wild Leaf Ride by Judith Stamper
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
Grand Old Tree by Mary Newell DePalma
From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer
One Bean by Anne Rockwell
Jack's Garden by Henry Cole
Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson
Pumpkins by Jacqueline Farmer
Four Seasons Make a Year by Anne Rockwell
How Groundhog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
How Leaves Change by Sylvia Johnson
Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Sunflower House by Eve Bunting
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
Books-Animals
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Hurry and the Monarch by Antoine O. Flatharta
In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming
It's A Frog's Life! By Steve Parker
Hibernation Station by Michelle Meadows
Hibernation by Margaret Hall
Don't Wake Up the Bear! by Marjorie Dennis Murray
A Bed for Winter by Karen Wallace
The Migration of a Whale by Tanya Kant
Books-Plants and Animals
Salamander Rain: A Lake and Pond Journal by Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini
Seasons by Illa Podendorf