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Life Science Kit Resources Vancouver School District
This is a very exciting unit for young students because they have a chance to observe, touch, hold, and care for a number of living things as they · Plant seeds and observe and record their growth. Through their long-term observations, students will learn that animals coexist with plants as well as other animals. By closely examining guppies (male and female), students see observable differences within the same species. And due to the selection of the organisms in this unit, your students will see the diversity that exists in nature. Extensive use of Venn diagrams helps students organize their observations and draw conclusions about organisms in general. Essential Lessons: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 4, 9, 10, 12, 6 In doing each of the essential lessons, all content and performance
standards will be met for the Washington State EALR's and Benchmarks.
The lessons can be done in clusters or combined grouping. To
ease Kit usage the following lessons should be done in the above
sequence. The instructional approach to enhance student inquiry
and discovery is to combine the lessons in clusters (1-3) , (
5, 7, 8, 11) , (4, 9, 10, 12) and then return to lesson 6 to
culminate the cluster of (1-3) for the planting of seeds. The
grayed lessons should be done if time is available. This will
assure that you will be able to accommodate all EALR and WASL
requirements. If time is not available the grayed lessons could
be eliminated, but this means that you will need to assure that
the remaining lessons are done in breadth and depth.
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How is a pill bug
different from a snail? Do a pine tree and a guppy have anything
in common? By observing various plants and animals, you'll help
students begin to understand the diversity of life around them.
With the activities in Organisms, you'll encourage your students
to observe and detail