Central Idea Web with Popplet - Cooperative Learning Groups
In the Imagine It! Unit 4: Look Again students learn about how animals use camouflage for protection and to hunt for food. In this lesson, students read the story Animal Camouflage and create a central Idea web using the Popplet app. Here is a tutorial if you are not familiar with Popplet.
After reading the Animal Camouflage story, students will complete a central idea web. They will list the central idea first and then add web boxes that include key details from the story that support the central idea. The task card is linked here with directions of the assignment within Popplet.
Once they are done, students will submit their web digitally to the teacher. This could be submitted in different ways depending on teacher discretion. Here are directions to assist students with exporting their Popplet.
Author's Craft with Book Creator - Workstation
This lesson begins with reading the story Hungry Little Hare. In this story, a rabbit is looking for raspberry leaves to eat and bumps into many animals along the way. The rabbit cannot see the animals because they are camouflaged.
For this activity, students will use Book Creator to create an additional page to the Hungry Little Hare story. Here is a tutorial if you are not familiar with Book Creator.
This activity will begin as a whole group activity and then an independent learning activity. It will be introduced during reading & responding and finished during workstations. During the reading and responding lesson, students are asked to create an additional page to the story using words phrases and illustrations; continuing the word patterns and flow of the story. Here is a student example.
*Teacher Tip: Before introducing this lesson, determine how your students will submit their book creator assignment. In this activity, students will export their part of the story from Book Creator. Students could export their creation into Google Classroom, Seesaw, Google Drive, etc. It would also be beneficial to use Airserver to model how to use Book Creator for students at some point before the lesson.
Fact and Opinion with Padlet - Workstation
In this lesson students continue to learn about animal camouflage in the story How to Hide an Octopus. It is a story about an octopus, and other sea animals, that are trying to camouflage themselves.
Before you start this lesson, make sure you and your students have an understanding of how to use the Padlet app. This app allows students to create and collaborate via interactive multimedia bulletin boards. You will need to create a Padlet before the lesson. If you are not familiar with Padlet, here is a tutorial to help you get started.
Before students begin this activity, you will have to create the Padlet for students and assign it to them before they can add their facts and opinions. Click here for steps on how to set up the Padlet wall for this lesson.
*Teacher Tip: You may want to model how to use Padlet for students using Airserver before releasing them to complete this activity independently.
Compare and Contrast with Venn Diagram - Workstation
In this lesson, students read the story I See Animals Hiding to learn more about the various ways animals use camouflage to hide themselves. They will create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the Arctic Hare and the Bittern using the following topics: habitat, type of camouflage, color, and need for camouflage. Before you start this lesson, make sure you and your students have an understanding of how to navigate and use the Venn Diagram app and here is a tutorial that will help you get started.
This activity that can be implemented into workstations anytime after the story I See Animals Hiding has been read and discussed during Reading and Responding whole group instruction. You will need to create the Venn Diagram for students before they can complete this activity. Here are the directions on how to do this and an example of a finished product.
Standards:
ELA 2.RL.9.2, 2.RI.6.1, 2.RI.5, CS 2.DL.1.3, 2.N1.1.3,
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