Grade Level(s):  7-9

Subject:  English/Language Arts

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will read grade-level-appropriate online material
• Students will gain information of whales using the internet
• Students will write short paragraphs summarizing information

Materials:  Computers, paper and pencils

Technology Tools:  Internet Explorer and TV/VCR

Procedures:

• Students will be taken to computer lab and given instructions on use of computer.
• Students will be given  site and asked to go there.
• Once all students are at the given  whale  site ,  students will be walked through the various information sites and then go on a whale watch
• Students will be given  resource sites (SEA ANIMALS), (Kids Info ), (Zoom )  to gain more information..
• Students will be asked to take notes, create an outline and complete a short report on whales.

Modifications:  Material will be read aloud, main ideas will be repeated and rephrased and paragraph outlines will be used for detailed writing assignment as per
                          I.E.P.

Enrichment Activities:  Students will view video Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Evaluations/Assessment:  Sample of students' written work

National Standards:

• NL-ENG.K-12.3 EVALUATION STRATEGIES    Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend,  interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.
• They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their own knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features  (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context,  graphics) IGOs and Other Standards:
• NS.5-8.3 LIFE SCIENCE  As a result of their activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop  understanding
• Structure and function in living systems
• Reproduction and heredity
• Regulation and behavior
• Populations and ecosystems
• Diversity and adaptations of organisms
• NS.9-12.1 SCIENCE AS INQUIRY  As a result of activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop
• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understandings about scientific inquiry

• 7.56 4.10  compose a composition with a beginning, middle, and end
• 7.169  select and use appropriate software and/or other technologies to locate and use reference sources (7.137)
• 8.52- 4,7,10  use a writing prompt to develop a composition that contains a beginning, middle and end
• 8.155  select and use appropriate software and/or other technologies to locate and use reference sources (8.144)
• 9.43 4,7,10  use a writing prompt to develop a composition that contains a beginning, middle, and end
• 9.95  select and use appropriate technologies to locate and use reference sources

WV IGOs
National Standards
 
 
 

Overview

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 5

Authors:

Rod Auvil
Steve Harlow
Willa Mitchell