| ANIMALS
TWO BY TWO COURSE MATRIX |
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INTERDISCIPLINARY
EXTENSIONS |
READING CONNECTIONS |
HOME/SCHOOL
CONNECTION |
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1. |
GOLDFISH
AND GUPPIES |
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Create science journals.
• Play a camouflage game.
• Obtain other fish food.
• Train the goldfish.
• Identify animals that eat fish.
• Write about fish.
• Make your room an aquarium.
• Count the fish in the tank.
• Do fish arithmetic.
• Make a fish collage. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Animals Two by Two, “Learning
about Animals” and “Goldfish and Guppies”
• A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer |
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Make a fish-in-a-bowl twister. |
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2. |
LAND
AND WATER SNAILS |
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Go on a schoolyard field trip.
• Compare slugs to snails.
• Measure how far a snail moves in 1 minute.
• Test for surface preferences.
• Use shells for addition and subtraction.
• Use shells to make patterns.
• Divide the shells into sets.
• Observe snail trails. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Animals Two by Two, “Land
and Water Snails”
• The Snail’s Spell by Joanne Ryder |
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Play animal charades. |
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3. |
BIG
AND LITTLE WORMS |
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Make a worm observation terrarium.
• Look at earthworm paths.
• Take a schoolyard field trip.
• Compare the lengths of worms.
• Set up a vermicompost system. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Animals Two by Two, “Big
and Little Worms”
• It Could Still Be a Worm by Allan Fowler |
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Match earthworm questions and answers and take a neighborhood
field trip. |
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4. |
PILL
BUGS AND SOW BUGS |
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Go on a schoolyard field trip.
• Make a classroom mural. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Animals Two by Two, “Isopods”
• A Pill Bug’s Life by John Himmelman
• Animals Two by Two by Larry Lowery |
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Complete a drawing by placing animals in their proper environments. |
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5. |
EGGS
AND CHICKS |
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Make a classroom chick journal.
• Make math sentences.
• Research animals and their young. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Animals Two by Two, “Eggs
and Chicks”
• Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth
Heller |
• Look for pictures of baby and adult animals in magazines,
newspapers, and cards. Talk about the similarities between
parents and their young.
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