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Unit AuthorFirst and Last Name G. Anthony Deschaine

Author's E-mail Address gad0045@unt.edu

Course Name(s) LTEC

Course Number(s) 4100

Course Section(s) .003

School City, State, Zip University of North Texas

Instructor Name(s): Dr. Gerald Knezek

Unit Overview

Unit Plan Title Adaptations for Survival

Curriculum-Framing QuestionsEssential Question Are you a Survivor?

Unit Questions What does it take to adapt to your environment?

Unit SummaryTo show students the importance of adapting to an environment and help them understand the characteristics needed for different types of environment. Slideshow, hand outs, pictures, activates, and web links will be provided to help reinforce the lesson.

Subject Area(s): (List all subjects that apply)

Science and Art

Grade Level (Click boxes of all grade levels that apply) K-2 6-8 ESL Gifted and Talented

3-5 9-12 Resource Other:      

Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes

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To help students identify characteristics of past and present species that have helped them survive throughout and reproduce to keep their species forth going.

Targeted State Frameworks/Content Standards/Benchmarks 112.6. Science, Grade 4

4.8 Science concepts. The student knows that adaptations may increase the survival of members of a species. The student is expected to:

A)  identify characteristics that allow members within a species to survive and reproduce;

(B)  compare adaptive characteristics of various species; and

(C)  identify the kinds of species that lived in the past and compare them to existing species.

117.14. Art, Grade 4.

(2)  Creative expression/performance. The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skill. The student is expected to:

(A)  integrate a variety of ideas about self, life events, family, and community in original artworks;

(B)  design original artworks; and

(C)  invent ways to produce artworks and to explore photographic imagery, using a variety of art media and materials

ProceduresThe Students will see a power point and be given handouts and notes over adaptation and different theories of extinctions.After the lesson plan and comprehension of the essential question and unit questionsStudents will break into groups of five and create an assigned environment from the lesson using various art materials. The environment will need to be as imaginable as possibleOnce the environment is created, I will swap the environments created with another table and each one of the four students will create two animals out of the art supplies with characteristics or adaptations that will help them survive or disappear in their new environmentApproximate Time Needed (Example: 45 minutes, 4 hours, 1 year, etc.)

2 hours

Prerequisite SkillsEnvironmental or Earth Science introduction, and practiced Art Curriculum

Materials and Resources Required For Unit

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Technology – Hardware (Click boxes of all equipment needed.)

Camera Computer(s) Digital Camera DVD Player Internet Connection

Laser Disk Printer Projection System Scanner Television

VCR Video Camera Video Conferencing Equip. Other:      

Technology – Software (Click boxes of all software needed.)

Database/Spreadsheet Desktop Publishing E-mail Software Encyclopedia on CD-ROM

Image Processing Internet Web Browser Multimedia

Web Page Development Word Processing Other:      

Printed Materials

Handouts of slides and Instructions for activity

Supplies

Art materials; Construction paper, glue, scissors, tape, markers, map colors, crayons, yarn, Styrofoam, card board,

Googly eyes, and etc…

Internet Resources

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/adaptations/index.htmlhttp://www.saxarts.com/resources/lessonPlans/lessonPlansCrossCurricular.jsphttp://www.dickblick.com/categories/educationalmaterials/

OthersAccommodations for Differentiated Instruction

Resource Student

Will have hand outs with prefilled detailed notes on slide show and vocabulary handout

Gifted Student

Will be asked to make themselves adapt to one of the environment from lesson and write a 1 page summary of how that would occur

Student AssessmentRubric Will be available in Power point for brochure

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Students will receive a participation grade for class activity

Student will have a pop quiz over material once the lesson plan has been completed

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