Language Leaper : endangered animals script 13
Script
Director’s Notes
Discovery Discussion
Teacher: Hello. Welcome to Language Leaper. My name is __name of
person__________. How are you? (Pause) Good! Here is our friend.
Kaz enters as teacher
introduces as friend.
Puppet 1: Hello. My name is Kaz. I am nine years old.
Teacher: How are you Kaz?
Puppet 1: I am fine. Thank you. How are you?
Teacher: I am fine. Thank you.
Puppet: What is this?
Teacher: This is an endangered animal. It is the Steller Sea Lion. Lets learn
more about this fish...where it lives, what it eats, and why it is endangered.
Whiteboard Vocabulary
Teacher: (Teacher identifies item/answers the question and then
introduces vocabulary words in context)
Teacher: Let’s hear a story.
I am a Steller Sea Lion. I live on land and in the sea. I eat salmon and squid. I am
endangered because of hunting and loss of food.
List the four vocabulary
words here:
1.I am
2.I live
3. I eat
4. I am endangered
because
The teacher says the
word in context while
drawing. She pauses and
pulls hand away from the
tablet. She pauses and
says the target
vocabulary word again.
She pauses before
starting on the next
sentence.
Teaching Context (Story Room)
Who am I ?
Where do I live?
What do I eat?
Why am I endangered?
Story is presented as a
rhythmic chant.
Activity 1
Students will be given a worksheet that has a picture of a Steller Sea Lion., land
and sea, salmon and squid, hunter and food with X over it.
See lesson plan 13
Activity 1
When the students here the phrase I am, they will put a place marker on the sea
lion
When they hear the phrase I live, they will put a place markers on the land and
sea
When they hear the phrase I eat, they will put a place marker on the salmon and
squid
When the hear the phrase, I am endangered because, they will put a place
marker on the hunter and No food.
Activity 2
See lesson plan 13
activity 2
The students will be given picture cards of Steller Sea Lion, land and ocean,
salmon and squid, hunters and X over food
When the hear the target phrase, they will hold up the card or cards that
represent the correct answers.
I am,
I live,.
I eat,
I am endangered because,
Wrap-Up
Teacher: What did you learn today?
Puppet:
I am a Steller Sea Lion. I live on land and in the sea. I eat salmon and squid. I am
endangered because of hunting and loss of food.
.
Teacher: Good! We learned about an endangered animal!
Teacher & Puppets: cheer
Sugoi!
Teacher: It is time to say goodbye. Let’s sing our special song.
Teacher & Puppet: Goodbye!
Video Segment /Writing/Cultural Specific
Song