Inquiry in the key concept “Form” Objective: What does “Form” Mean? Objectives: Language Arts: Story Elements * Deepen the students’ understanding of the form concept and make connection to language arts * Identify the story elements Engage: Bring in a toy or an object that attracts the students’ attention. Ask them to tell you how it looks like? Create a mind map as they describe it, then tell the students that the form of something is how it looks like. Investigate / Activate: Tell the students that they will play a carousel game, they will go around 5 stations, where they will find a focus card/picture, they will have only 30 seconds at each station and they will have to write as many words as they can to describe each picture, they can’t repeat a word that was already used by the previous group Reflection: What do you understand about the concept “Form”? Engage: Read (Goldilocks and the Three Bears) or any other story of your choice. Ask the students if they can tell you how to describe the “FORM” of the story. Investigate / Activate: Reflection: Ask the students to choose a story, and in a group, identify the story elements Post one new thing you learned about the “Form” concept to the form poster Differentiation: Write about the story elements Sequence pictures and write simple words or a sentence Literacy Concepts: Story elements Tell the students that you can use the story elements to understand how the author organized the story Objectives: Language Arts: Characters Engage: * Deepen the students’ understanding of the form concept and make connection to language arts * Describe the character traits and feelings Choose 2 characters from stories that the students are familiar with. Create a big poster of both characters (laminate if possible, as they will be used frequently). Literacy Concepts: Character traits Ask the students if they can tell you how to describe the “FORM” of the characters Differentiation: describe the character using Simple words Sentences Objective: Math: Engage: Tell the students that they inquired about the form concept, and today, they will inquire about the form concept in Math Investigate / Activate: Station 1: The form of the clock Station 2: The form of an addition sentence Station 3: Numbers in different forms (tens and ones, ten frame, symbol, written) * Deepen the students’ understanding of the form concept and make connection to Math Investigate / Activate: Ask the student to create labels / sentences that describe the characters and stick them around the poster You can introduce the word “adjective” here Why is it important to learn about the key concept “form”? Reflection: Post one new thing you learned about the “Form” concept to the form poster Reflection: Post one new thing you learned about the “Form” concept to the form poster