Habitats – Common Core Lessons and Activities
Carole Marsh
Digital
(Gallopade, Aug. 1, 2013)
You are purchasing the eBook PDF version of this book. The Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction. How to Use the Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. • Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. • Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. • Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.Tips: • Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. • Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. • To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: • Reading for Information• Higher-Order Thinking• Writing Problems• Primary Source Analysis• Vocabulary• Graphic Organizers• Map Activities• & More! Here is the Table of Contents for the Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:What is a Habitat?: Reading Informational TextMeeting Basic Needs: Reading Informational TextAnimal Behaviors: Concepts & Processes GStructural Adaptations: Applying Concepts GLiving Together: Cause & EffectThe Grays Are Coming!: Reading Informational Text Biomes: Compare & ContrastNonliving Factors: Summarizing InformationHabitats Report: Research & PresentationPlant Adaptations: Classifying InformationBiomes and Climate: Interpreting Visual DataRainforest Habitats: Reading Informational Text GThe Oceans Are Alive: Applying Concepts GO2Habitat in Crisis!: Map ActivityPolitical Cartoon: Primary Source Analysis Conservation Vocabulary: Problem-Solution-Results Common Core State Standards CorrelationsG: Includes Graphic OrganizerGO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)