science challenge Activity idea

1. Create a power point with four habitats and the characteristics of each habitat. After the teacher explains the characteristics of each habitat, she will then provide visual images of the animals that live in each of those habitats and why, and also the characteristics of the animals that helps them survive in a specific habitat. The four habitats to be discussed are: wetlands, fores, rain forest, and dessert. While the power point is being explained by the teacher, the students will be providing feedback about what they know about the habitats and animals at hand and using prior knowledge to associate the new knowledge with previous knowledge. Once the students understand the different habitats , the teacher will introduce kidspiration, The students will place at least four animals in each habitat. Once the students have completed the activity, they are going to share with a partner the animals that they put in each habitat and why they did.

2. i)Content:Standard 3
Students will develop an understanding of their environment. Objective 1
Investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives.
ii) Pedagogy: Classifying, inferring, predicting, measuring and acquiring and processing data (constructing table of data, constructing graphs, describing relationships). I feel like this is a good pedagogy for the content because we are going to determine which animals belong in a certain environment. By doing so we are classifying the relationships between animals and their environments(plants).
iii)Technology:We will be using power point and kidspiration to determine the characteristics of animals and their environments through a power point and then using kidspiration to visually see the content and it will provide them practice with the tool.
iv) Representation: i think the representation we will use, gives us a chance to assess the content we are trying to teach. It will help us understand the knowledge that the student has. I think the assessment will also give the students a visual representation to understand the content more.