Unit Topic or Theme: Science

Grade: 3

Lesson Objectives: The student will be able to match the animal with their appropriate habitat. The student will also be able to match the correct vegetation to it’s given habitat. The students will also be able to match the correct type of precipitation to the habitat as well.

Instructional Technique: Lecture, demonstration, group work, individual work, computer work, discussion

Instructional Materials: Laptop, step-by-step outline sheet, worksheet (Switcheroozoo), pencils and website

http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitat.swf

Theoretical Perspective: By learning different types of habitat students will be able to understand the difference in environments, this will allow for them to recognize why certain animals live in certain places. By learning this students can understand that their environment is not the same as other organisms.

Procedure:

A.    Teacher will explain what a habitat is to the students and give verbal examples.

B.    Teacher will hand out guide sheet for using the website. Teacher will then instruct the student to go to the website. Students will do so. The students should be limited to the one page and then are to follow the guided sheet. After this the students will be given a worksheet that goes along with the activity. They will then be instructed to work alone on the website until the worksheet is completed. They should go through each individual animal and record the correct results (getting the compatibility meter to 100%) as they find them. Once the first part of the assignment is finished the teacher will then instruct them to get a partner and fill in the empty last column (the students will pick an animal and then define it’s likely environment).

C.     The teacher will call the students together. The teacher will allow children to share their animal they had chosen to the class and tell them it’s environment. Once in partners students can make fault environments for each other to test and see if they can be made correct. Afterwards the students can then correct the faulty environment and this can be used as an evaluation. The teacher will then collect the worksheets from the students to review their progress.

D.    For learners that are developmentally delayed, they can draw the answers in the boxes rather than writing them.

E.     No homework assignment

Evaluation:

A.    The teacher will be able to determine if the students have met the objective by evaluating their worksheet. Once the student fills in the blank column the teacher will be able to review if the students grasp being able to match the animal with their habitat, matching the correct vegetation to the habitat, and also if they matched the correct types of precipitation.

B.    One concern we have for this lesson is the students understanding that precipitation can change and it isn’t always a constant type in one area. Another concern is knowing how many ideal environments work for one organism (the combinations may be too broad).

Switcheroozoo

Step One: Sign into computers and open the web

Browser (Safari)

Step Two: Type link into the url box http://www.switcheroozoo.com/games/habitat.swf

Step Three: Read over the worksheet and directions at the top

Step Four: Click through the website for five minutes to get to know how to use it (Use the arrows around each category to switch the animal, vegetation, place, and precipitation)

Step Five: Make the compatibility meter 100% for each animal! Make sure to record your answers!

Step Six: Draw in your own animal, put its likely place, vegetation, and precipitation

Step Seven: Raise your hand when you are done so that I can collect your papers

Step Eight: Share Time!

Step Nine: Find a partner. Make a goofy environment for an animal and see if your partner can fix it!

Switcheroozoo

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Directions:

Fill in the boxes with the appropriate answers to allow each animal to receive 100% compatibility. Keep in mind there could be more than one correct answer.

Switcheroozoo

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Alternate Directions:

Fill in the boxes with the appropriate answers to allow each animal to receive 100% compatibility. Keep in mind there could be more than one correct answer. You may draw pictures for habitat, vegetation and precipitation if necessary.