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Daily Learning Targets
- I can organize research notes to find the most important information about bees.
- I can create and label a scientific drawing of a bee.
Ongoing Assessment
- During Work Time A, circulate and listen in as students briefly discuss with a partner and then justify their decision to keep or recycle their information about bees.
- During the Closing, continue to circulate and listen for students to share details about their scientific drawing and what they learned about bees through their research.
Purpose of Lesson
- Lesson 7 marks the transition from collecting information to working with the information gathered. Students work together to determine which pieces of collected information about bees is most relevant to the Unit 2 Guiding Question: “How do pollinators help plants grow and survive?” Processing notes in this lesson serves as preparation for writing informational text about bees in Lessons 11 and 12.
In Advance
- Gather a research collection bag and recycling bin for use in Work Time A.
- Preview “It’s Pollination Time,” Version 2 to become familiar with it.
- Post: Learning targets; “It’s Pollination Time,” Version 2; and applicable anchor charts.
Vocabulary
- Lesson-specific: adjective, adverb, noun, verb
Materials:
- “It’s Pollination Time,” Version 2 (one to display)
- What Researchers Do Anchor Chart (begun in Unit 1, Lesson 2)
- Research about Bees: Class Notes (completed in Lesson 6; one to display)
- Unit 2 Guiding Question Anchor Chart (begun in Lesson 2)
- Focus Statement Sentence Strip (one to display)
- Research collection bag (one per class; used by students to sort research statements)
- Recycling bin (one per class; used by students to sort research statements)
- Research Sentence Strips (one per pair)
- Bee Sentence Strip (one for teacher modeling)
- Bee Photograph #3 (from Lesson 5; enough for a third of the class and one for teacher modeling)
- Plants and Pollinators Research Notebook, Part II (from Lesson 1; page 9; one per student and one for teacher modeling)
- Bee Photograph #1 (from Lesson 5; enough for a third of the class)
- Bee Photograph #2 (from Lesson 5; enough for a third of the class)
- Plants and Pollinators Research Notebook, Part II (from Lesson 1; example, for teacher reference)
- Scientific Drawing Anchor Chart (begun in Lesson 5; added to during the Closing)
- Scientific Drawing Anchor Chart (begun in Lesson 5; example, for teacher reference)
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