Technology Rich Unit Plan
Ocean Unit - PreK
Subject Areas |
Science |
Math |
Objectives |
Students will be able to observe and describe similarities and differences in the apearance and behavior of ocean animals.
Students will be able to identify major structures of common ocean animals (e.g., fins, legs, gills). Students will be able to classify ocean animals. Students will be able to communicate observations orally and in drawings (conducting careful investigations). |
Students will be able to create a bar graph (with teacher assistance).
Students will be able to use the created bar graph for greater than/less than questions. Students will be able to sort ocean animals by their physical features. |
Essential Questions |
Who lives in the Ocean?
What makes ocean animals different from all the other animals? |
Which ocean animal would you consider to be large? Small? Smaller?
Name an ocean animal that has tentacles? Fins? |
Activities |
1. TEASe (Open the unit with this video!)
2. Subject Sampler 3. Graphing Lesson Plan 4. Create your own Ocean Story (with teacher assistance) that include ocean animals you have learned, along with detailed physical features for each one of them. |
Assessments |
Students will be assessed by a Rubric!
They will be assessed on thier responses to the questions from the Essential Questions section, on their Ocean Story that they have created, and on a classroom Graph. The classroom graph will be assessed by completing their own bar graph with a class room created game (a paper sheet version of the bar graph similar to the one created for the Graph Lesson Plan for each student to fill out). In groups of 4, each student will randomly pick out a picture of an ocean animal and everyone will color in a box for that animal. The game ends as soon as one ocean animal reaches the top. RUBRIC |