Anne Arundel County Public Schools | Department of Academics & Strategic Initiatives
Changes: Project 3
Students will act as an exhibit designer who creates dioramas for museums. Students will design and build
(LoMa) a shoebox diorama of a habitat (LoSc) and describe (LoLA) how the landscape/landform will change
from season to season (LoSS) (through drawing, verbal explanation, comic strip, etc.)
WIDA
Standard
LoLA
LoMa
LoSS
LoSc
Kindergarten Curriculum
ESOL
P1-2
Describe how the habitat
will change from season to
season. Students will use
high frequency vocabulary
related to weather and
seasonal changes;
responses are short and
generally comprehensible.
P2-3
P4-5
Explain how the habitat
will change from season to
season. Students will use
general and specific
language related to
weather and seasonal
changes; responses show
emerging complexity and
comprehensibility.
Describe the shapes in the Explain and describe the
diorama, in different sizes shapes in the diorama, in
and orientations,
different sizes and
similarities and
orientations, similarities
differences, using general and differences, using
math vocabulary;
general and specific
responses are short and
language; responses
generally comprehensible. show emerging complexity
and comprehensibility.
Describe the landscape/
landform features in the
diorama using general
language; responses are
short and generally
comprehensible.
Identify the ways in which
animals and plants affect
and interact with their
environment/habitat using
general language;
responses are short and
generally comprehensible.
Analyze and explain how
the habitat will change
from season to season.
Students will use specific
and technical language;
responses show a variety
of sentence lengths,
complexity, and
comprehensibility.
Analyze and compare
shapes in the diorama, in
different sizes and
orientations, similarities
and differences, using
specific and technical
language; responses
show a variety of sentence
lengths, complexity, and
comprehensibility.
Describe the landscape/
Analyze the landscape/
landform features in the
landform features in the
diorama using general and diorama using specific and
specific language;
technical language;
responses show emerging responses show a variety
complexity and
of sentence lengths,
comprehensibility.
complexity, and
comprehensibility.
Describe the ways in
Explain the ways in which
which animals and plants
animals and plants affect
affect and interact with
and interact with their
their environment/habitat
environment/habitat using
using general and specific specific and technical
language; responses
language; responses
show emerging complexity show a variety of sentence
and comprehensibility.
lengths, complexity, and
comprehensibility.
3/12/2015
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