Tibi Kenney Integration of Language Arts and Science lesson plan Lesson Components March 5 March 7 March 9 Objective S.W.B.A.T Determine the meaning of words relevant to science Exit Card S.W.B.A.T Plan and conduct Well-Designed Investigations to hatch brine shrimp eggs N/A S.W.B.A.T Describe observable changes of brine shrimp Students will make observations and record it on their science journals. Discovery Education Elmo Science kit to hatch brine shrimp Computer Activity game matching the vocabulary they learned on the life cycle of a brine shrimp to the meaning of the words. Hand lenses Science journals Pencils. Students will view the life cycle of a brine shrimp from Discovery Education before conduction an investigation to Ask students what changes have occurred to the brine shrimp eggs? Assessment Match the science vocabulary (life cycle of a brine shrimp) to the meaning Materials Introduction/ Warm-up Elmo Vocabulary resource The Brine Shrimp Life Cycle book from the EIC Informational Text about life cycle Computer Lab Discovery Education Today students will learn to take an intellectual risk by sharing ideas about vocabulary even if they do March March Guided Practice not know what the words mean. Tell the students that we will be learning all about Brine shrimp. In order to do our investigation. We need to learn the vocabulary that is related to life science. hatch brine shrimp eggs. To activate students' background ask what do they know about brine shrimp? What does the word shrimp means? Discuss with the students what a brine shrimp is? Tell the students that they are going to get into partners to make an intellectual risk and fill out the vocabulary word sheet, Title Do I know These Words? It will have words such as cyst, dormant, embryo, exoskeleton, hatch, larvae, life cycle, maturity, molt, nauplii. On the worksheet, next to the word. It will a column that say I don't know the word. I've seen this word, but I'm not sure what it means. I know something about this word or I know a meaning of the word and can explain it. Provide time for students to individually record their understanding of each word using the resources. Use the Display one quarter teaspoon of brine shrimp eggs using an ELMO and ask What do you see? Explain that they are eggs in the dormant stage called cysts and that students are going to hatch them. Tell students that another name for brine shrimp is sea monkeys. Place two cups of water and two teaspoons of salt (aquarium salt) in each flex tank. Divide the class into four groups. Each group of students will have their names on each tank. Have each student in every group one at a time stir the tank to aerate the water. Add the brine shrimp eggs. Divide them amongst the four tanks. Tell the students that it takes about (18-24 hours) for the eggs to hatch. Display the tanks by the window. The ideal temperature is supposed to be 90 degrees. Provide opportunities for groups to use hand lenses to observe and record any changes. Ask; what have you learned as a result of your observations? What questions do you have? Provide time for students to reflect and discuss what they learned or any questions they may have with peers using Think-Pair-Share. Ask students: Did it help watching a clip about the life cycle of a brine shrimp from the Discovery Education? What comparison did you make between the life cycle of brine shrimp from Discovery Education and your own experiment to hatch brine shrimp eggs? Independent Practice Closure Elmo to show students illustrations displayed in the life cycle diagram( e. g., hatching, napuliar stages, cysts) ask the students to examine the illustrations without clicking to open captions. Discuss which words did the illustrations help you understand? what was clarified? how can you determine the meaning of words that you still do not know? Provide time for students to revisit the Do I know These Words resource to rate their new understanding of each word. We will see what happens! :) Students work together as partners to discuss the vocabulary. Students will use multiple strategies to help them to determine the meaning of vocabulary used to describe brine shrimp. This was a group lesson Tell students that tomorrow we will view the life cycle of a Brine Shrimp from the Discovery channel. We will continue to make observations from our plan conducted the day before from hatching brine shrimp eggs. Tell students that they will be observing their brine shrimp in the tank. Students need to record the changes on their science journals. Have students rotate to the computer center to do the activity on vocabulary- meaning. Students will continue to make observations of their brine shrimp. Reading: students read an article describing The Brine Shrimp Life Cycle as a group. Writing: students wrote on the Do I know These Words? vocabulary words to activate background knowledge. Students also wrote the changes in the life cycle of a brine shrimp on their science journals. Listening: students listened the 8 minutes clip on the life cycle of brine shrimp on Discovery Education website. Speaking: students were able to share what they knew about the science words and how to pronounce those words with their partners. Spelling: student were able to write the vocabulary words. Students were able to use a variety of technology as well to enhance their knowledge on the subject taught.