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K-5 Enrichment. Enrichment: To make fuller, more meaningful, and more rewarding Enrichment: The process of covering a subject in greater depth as is usual, or tackling subjects not usually covered . K-5 Goals. Higher Level Thinking Decision Making 21 st Century Skills Teamwork
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K-5 Enrichment • Enrichment: To make fuller, more meaningful, and more rewarding • Enrichment: The process of covering a subject in greater depth as is usual, or tackling subjects not usually covered
K-5 Goals • Higher Level Thinking • Decision Making • 21st Century Skills • Teamwork • Independent Learning • Imagination and Creativity • Problem Solving
The Enrichment Room Multiple Resources for Students and Teachers Fiction, nonfiction, reference, and how-to books for all ages, teacher resources, games, novel sets, etc.
The Perfect Classroom The students know how to make learning fun!
Room to Grow: The Kweeks fly to a new island that has plenty of room. We need adequate space to live comfortably and grow food.
Challenges and Brainteasers Weekly vocabulary words, brainteasers, and a writing contest
Compare/Contrast “Santas” of the World Holiday traditions are different in other parts of the world.
Holiday Chores: Then and Now Back then chores were very difficult because most everything had to be done by hand. Today we have technology to help with holiday chores.
Winter Holidays Around the World We learned about Hanukkah, Ramadan, Lunar New Year, Christmas, Diwali, and Bhodi Day.
World CelebrationsFoods, Gifts, and Lights Even though the world’s people have different Winter holidays, they celebrate the occasion in a similar way.
Dirty Water Challenge Pollution is difficult and costly to clean up.
Introduction to Pet/Survival UnitKip learns that he and the wolf make a good team.Domesticated animals have a special relationship with people.
Human Needs/Animal Needs Brian turns his bedroom into a forest for his salamander. Humans and animals both need food, water, and shelter. How do human and animal needs differ?
Coyote’s Choice: Adapt and SurviveQuestion 1 It has not rained for a long time. The plants are dying and animals are becoming scarce. You are very weak, yet you feel an urge to travel to look for food. You begin to walk away from your burrow, but you find it hard to walk. You decide to: push ahead and look for food and water elsewhere, even though it means risking using up your last energy. return to the burrow and wait for rain and food to return.
If You Chose • A. you survived. • B. you spent your last energy waiting, and did not survive.
Coyote’s Choice Question 2 You are a tiny coyote pup and your mother has gone off to hunt for food. While you wait in the burrow a strange piece of thin wire on the end of a stick is pushed toward you from the door of your den. You see it coming and are afraid of it so you: (a) cower back against the wall of the burrow to escape (b) attack the wire by biting it
If You Chose: • A. You survived. • B. you were caught by a hunter’s snare and did not survive.
Coyote’s Choice Question 3 You come to a place where people are living because you know there is usually some food nearby. There is a place up ahead where the smell of food is strong, yet danger is very near and threatening. As night slowly advances with the setting sun, you decide to: Sneak in and eat as much of the food as you can under the cover of darkness. turn around and seek food elsewhere.
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