Beaks and Biomes: Integrating Science and Literacy

Beaks and Biomes: Integrating Science and Literacy

October 14, 2010Jessica Fries-GaitherTerry Shiverdecker

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Beaks and Biomes: Integrating Science and Literacy

Download these slides at:http://slidesha.re/beaksandbiomes

Today’s presentersJessica Fries-GaitherEducation Resource Specialist

The Ohio State UniversityCollege of Education and Human EcologySchool of Teaching and Learning

fries-gaither.1@osu.edu

Terry ShiverdeckerScience Content Specialist

Ohio Resource CenterOhio State UniversityCollege of Education and Human EcologySchool of Teaching and Learning

tshiverdecker@ohiorc.org

About Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

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Today’s Agenda• Quick Review

– Multi-genre text sets– Inquiry and the learning cycle

• Rationale• Beaks and Biomes unit

Text Sets

• Nonfiction• Multigenre

– Reference, Explanation, Narrative Expository, Biography, How-To, Journal, Field Guides

• Support students in all phases of learning cycle

5-E Learning Cycle

Choosing Beaks and Biomes• Integrates multiple life science concepts• Supports literacy skills

– Reading informational text– Writing to represent scientific knowledge

• Availability of many quality texts• Supports development of science process

skills• Unites science and literacy

skills in an authentic way

Engage

• Read Beaks! by Sneed Collard– A bird’s beak is

related to its diet

• Predict how a sanderling would use its beak to find food

Engage

Explore

What’s it like at the beach?What kinds of food might sanderlings find at

beach?

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A Shore Feast

Shore Feast food items

Walnut pieces = mole crabsShells = various mollusksWood flowers = sand dollarsWood beads = insectsRocks and pebbles

Explore

Explore

Re-read this page of theelectronic book to transition to the tundra environment

Explore

What’s it like on the tundra?What kinds of food might sanderlings find on

the tundra?

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Idea Circle

• Cooperative group activity

• Students select from a variety of reference and explanation books

• Variety of reading levels represented

• No repeat books within a group

Explore

Idea Circle Graphic Organizer

What we learned about the tundra Where we found it (Title, Team member)

Explore

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A Tundra FeastTundra Feast food items

Gummy worms = insect larvaeBlack pompoms = insectsFoam insects = adult insectsSpanish moss = plantsWood beads = beetlesWood knobs = rodents (lemmings)Pebbles and rocks

Explore

Explore

Identify Similarities and Differences

Compare and contrast the sanderling’s behavior on the shore and in the tundra. How do its adaptations help it to survive in both places?

SHORE TUNDRA

Explain

Download at http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:19438/Beaks_and_Biomes_Venn.pdf

RAFT* writing prompts

*Role, Audience, Format, Topic

Use what you’ve learned from your investigations with the feasts and the texts to answer one of the following prompts.

1. You are a sanderling. Write a diary for your children in which you describe how you able to survive in the tundra and on the shore.

2. You are a researcher who studies sanderlings by observing them in the wild. Write a journal for other researchers that describe your observations of the behaviors that help sanderlings survive in these two different environments.

Explain

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Mentor Texts

• Support students as they write in a new format

• Journals and Narrative expository text

Explain

Expand

Possibilities: • Tundra food webs• Different types of bird beaks• Other ecosystems and

biomes• Other birds and mammals

that migrate to and within the tundra

What would you do in this phase?

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Assess

Formative assessment

Summative assessment

• Observations of students at work• Graphic organizers• Conversations and class discussions

• RAFT writing prompts

Assessing Student Writing

4 3 2 1

Scientific Content Illustrates an accurate and thorough understanding of scientific concepts

Illustrates an accurate understanding of most scientific concepts

Illustrates a limited understanding of scientific concepts

Illustrates inaccurate understanding of scientific concepts

Scientific Terminology (Vocabulary)

All terms are used appropriately and accurately in explanation

Most terms are used appropriately and accurately in explanation

Some terms are used appropriately and accurately in explanation

Few or no terms are used appropriately and accurately in explanation

Use of Evidence (from texts and investigations)

All claims supported by evidence

Most claims supported by evidence

Some claims supported by evidence

Few or no claims supported by evidence.

Assess

Modify as needed for use with your students!

Download at http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:19441/Beaks_and_Biomes_rubric.pdf

For More Information

The Learning Cyclehttp://www.ohiorc.org/pm/science/Sci_LearningCycle.aspx

Science Text Setshttp://tinyurl.com/2e2ee8j

The Dance of Lifehttp://tinyurl.com/asodyo

Electronic Bookhttp://rs1.contentclips.com/ipy/fwd/ipy_0902_str_45_1057.html

Coming Soon!

Thursday, November 11, 2010: Research Projects, Revisited

Do your students struggle with research projects and reports? Are you just as frustrated as they are? Join us as we discuss strategies for making that standard report fresh and meaningful

Presenter: Jessica Fries-Gaither

http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/BeyondPenguins/Seminars

Thank you!

Jessica Fries-Gaither: fries-gaither.1@osu.edu

Terry Shiverdecker: tshiverdecker@ohiorc.org

Today’s slides available at: http://slidesha.re/beaksandbiomes

Archived recording at: http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/BeyondPenguins/Seminars