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On The Ocean Floor. By: Nicole Edwards & Gabrielle Burno. Summary of Unit:. This unit was designed to introduce students (age 4) to the different animals, plants, and environmental cues that may be found in an ocean through various interactive classroom activities. Essential Questions:.
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On The Ocean Floor By: Nicole Edwards & Gabrielle Burno
Summary of Unit: • This unit was designed to introduce students (age 4) to the different animals, plants, and environmental cues that may be found in an ocean through various interactive classroom activities.
Essential Questions: • What is an ocean? • What animals can be found in the ocean? • What can we do to protect our oceans? • If you could be any ocean animal what would you be? Why?
Objectives: • The children will paritcipate ina group game.answer question the question provided on the activity worksheet and draw an illustration of what was said. • The children will create an ocean scene in a box. • The children will complete a literacy Worksheet based on the ocean theme.
DCPS Integrated Standards: • Reading • Engage in oral exchanges about a topic with peers and adults • Initiate and/or extend conversations with peers and adults using multiple exchanges • Demonstrate understanding explanations • Listen to story attentively • Ask questions to get information, ask for help, clarify something that is not understood. • Answer questions with increasing complexity • Follow directions of two or more steps • Retail story events in a sequence • Use words to describe concrete objects, actions, and feelings • Integrate new vocabulary into conversations with peers and adults
Integrated DCPS Standards: • Reading (contd.) • Ask questions to acquire a new vocabulary • Treat books with care • Understand concepts of title, author, and illustrator • Use pictures as clues to the text. Understand the concept of the term The End. • Identify words that rhyme in the story • Identify 10 or more letters • Name letters in familiar words • Begin to make sound letter connections • Use books to find information
DCPS Integrated Standards: • Mathematics
Concept Map Ocean Cups Sensory Table • Goldfish activity Create OceanBook Reading Art Science Math Read “ Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea” • Ocean animals • number mobile • Ocean scene • in a box • Cut & paste • ocean animals • Dive under • the sea game • Starfish • necklaces Social Literacy • Lacing & • Stuffing Fish • Open-ended art Group Discussion and Activity (If you Could be any ocean animal what would you be? Why?) • Worksheet (Matching beginning sounds of words to the correct ocean animal) • Create an Ocean book