Candidate’s Name: Malka Wallerstein
Grade Level: 3-4
Title of the lesson: Migration of whales
Length of the lesson: 1 hour
Central focus
Students will learn the reason whales migrate and how different whales have different migration patterns.
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Knowledge of students to inform teaching
Students know many fact about whales. Students are familiar with researching on the internet using specific websites that the teacher provides.
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Common Core State Standards
LS2A: Animals depend on their surroundings to get what they need, including food, water, shelter, and a favorable temperature. Animals depend on plants or other animals for food. They use their senses to find food and water and their body parts to gather,catch, eat, and chew the food.
ESS2.E: Plants and animals can change their environment
4.G.A.1 - Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures. (4-PS4-2)
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Support literacy development through language (academic language)
Students will learn the new vocabulary word Migration.
Students will compare and contrast the way different whales migrate.
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Learning objectives
Students will know what the word migrate means.
Students will understand that other animals besides whales migrate as well for various reasons.
Students will research the migration patterns of different whales.
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Formal and informal assessment
Formal Assessment - each group will be assessed on their work by answering the questions provided correctly and showing how their type of whale migrates using the colored push pins and yarn.
Gifted students can take up the challenge to research more than one whale.
ELL students will have a teacher's assistant available if they need extra help.
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Instructional procedure: The teacher will begin the lesson by reviewing some facts about whales that were taught in the previous class. The teacher will hang up the word migration on the vocabulary wall and the class will have a group discussion of the meaning of the word. The teacher will explain to the students why whales have to migrate. The teacher will show a short educational video about the Blue whales migration and its obstacles. Explain to the students that scientist track the migration of whales in order to understand how environmental changes affect the whales.
The students will research whale migration in groups. Each group will choose a whale they want to research from a list the teacher provides. Students will have to do research using the internet and materials provided to answer 4 questions about that whales migration. The teacher will hang up a world map and each group will pick a color push pins and label their whales migration route with that color push pin. When finished they will connect the push pins with the same color yarn so that the rest of the students can see the migration route. The teacher will use a color code on bottom to which migration route matches to which whale.
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Instructional resources and materials
Whiteboard
Computers
Books about whale migration
Colored push pins
Colored yarn
Markers
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Reflection
This lesson focuses on allowing children to research and come up with the learning and information on their own. This lesson has many areas for students with diverse learning capabilities to be interested to learn. Gifted students have the opportunity to research more than one whale.
Students that are less gifted will have a teacher's assistant available if needed.
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