If You Don't Believe Me, Look It Up!

    Lesson Five

Overview:  Students need to know how to manage information resources, even at an early age.  This lesson focuses on teaching young students how to find and use the information to complete an assignment.  They will examine their prior knowledge, make predictions, and verify their predictions through research on the Internet.

Duration:  Two class periods

Objectives:

Students will predict based upon prior knowledge about a topic (bats)

Students will connect new information with prior knowledge

Students will identify facts about bats within a fictional story

Students will use keywords to locate information in electronic texts

Materials: Unit Resources  Stellaluna by Janell Cannon, Notes Learning Log, Internet Bat Research True/False Worksheet.

Bat's body  By clicking on parts of the bat's body the children can read what it does.

 

Vocabulary:

echolocation            hibernate                migrate                mammal            endangered

Activities:

Students are read the book Stellaluna.  Give students one or two minutes to reflect on the story and to share with the class what they know about bats.  Ask them to think specific facts that they can state aloud. This process will allow students to recall and evaluate what they already know, and it provides the teacher with a quick student self-assessment.

Distribute the worksheets and explain how each will be used.  The Learning Log will be used by the students to write down information they find during their internet research.  The True and False worksheet will allow students to make a guess based on their prior knowledge of bats; the second part of the worksheet will be completed after the student researches the answers using the clues provided on the worksheet.

Assessment:

Teacher observation, completion of the Learning Log and Bat Research worksheet.

Home Learning:

Children create their own poem  to share with the class.

Extension:

Adopt -a bat http://batcon.org/adoptabat/adoptinfo.html
http://batcon.org/adoptabat/adoptinfo.html
 Though this activity is not listed under student activities, you may want to consider it for a class project. Check web location for more information.

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