3rd grade Instructional Guide

GRADE3 SCIENCE

McGraw Hill Unit 3: Different Environments

Module: Survive the Environment

Lesson 1: Survival of Organisms Lesson 2: Adaptations and Variations

3. Some animals survive better in certain environments than others END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE FEATURES & FUNCTIONS I can explain that a change in an environment can impact the types of animals and plants that live there.

Language Functions and Features: ● Nouns to defne phenomenon (adaptation, behavior) ● Connectors to signal causality (therefore, as a result, because) ● Declarative statements to make a claim ( Drought causes plants to die.) FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

● 3.2.5 Formative Assessment ● 3.2.6 Formative Assessment

VOCABULARY

● Competition ● Ecosystem ● Resource ● adaptation

● Behavior ● Camoufage ● Hibernation

● Migrate ● Mimicry

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building

● Utilize ACT (Access Complex Text) and EL Support in Curriculum ● Make connections each day to the phenomenon. ● Explicitly teach the CER model to students for explaining phenomenon. ● Utilize the Leveled Library for additional background reading about content. ● Utilize the STEM career connections and other activities found in the Elaborate portion of the lesson.

Extension

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