Unit+3+People+and+Nature

=Key Question: =   How are people and nature connected? = = =Expanding Concepts: = = = = = = Web Resources: = [|Endangered Animals] Students can take a look at several different endangered animals.   [|Nature Challenge for Kids] Students can take David Suzuki's nature challenge. [|Classifying Critters] This site allows students to decide what animals have in common. [|Animal Adaptations] Students can explore specific animals in specific habitats. [|Natural Disasters] FEMA site that encourages students to learn about several types of natural disasters.
 * How can gardens enrich our lives?
 * How do people explain nature in order to understand it?
 * What information and pleasure can people gain by observing nature?
 * How can people help animals that are in danger?
 * How can people use a scientific fact to protect themselves from natural disasters?

= = =[|Reading A-Z:] = Extreme Animals (k) Endangered Birds (m) Manatees  (p) Plight of the Polar Bear (q) Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis (q) Nature Reuses and Recycles (r) Sea Turtles (r) How Robin Stole the Fire - (A Native American Readers Theater)

=[|Discovery Streaming:] = Animal Profiles: Manatees (13:00) Did You Ever See a Manatee? (8:00) Saving the Manatee (15:00) Jr. Zoologist: Birds (12:38)

=IS Resources: = And Still the Turtle Watched (43595-2) This video recounts the timeless message of our responsibility to nature and our environment. Volcanoes (Bill Nye the Science Guy) 43375-2

= Print Resources: =

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Picture Books:
__Scarecrow__ by Cynthia Rylant __Flower Garden__ by Eve Bunting <span class="wiki_link_ext">__The River__ created by Gallimard Jeunesse and Laura Bour A First Discovery Book __The Great Kapok Tree__ by Lynne Cherry __Hello Harvest Moon__ by Ralph Fletcher __Touch The Earth__ by Jane Baskwill __The Table Where Rich People Sit__ by Baylor Bird (Six Traits) __Moonstick: The Seasons of the Sioux__ by Ralph Fletcher

Chapter Books:
=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(53, 53, 192)">Library Media Collections: = __Miss Rumphius__ by Barbara Cooney (Level O Kit) __City Green__ by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan(Level O Kit) __Scarecrow__ by Cynthia Rylant __Someday a Tree__ by Eve Bunting __Boat Ride with Lillian Two Blossom__ by Patricia Polacco __River Ran Wild__ by Lynne Cherry __Wonderfully Weird Animals__ by Susan Ring (Level L Kit) __Animals in Danger__ (Level O Kit) __Endangered Animals__ by Lynn Stone (Level N Kit) __Whales Passing__ by Eve Bunting __Volcanoes__ by Lily Wood (Level M Kit)

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(53, 53, 192)">Inquiry Project: Animal Adaptations = How have humans affected the environment? Students choose a natural Earth feature that people have somehow changed and gather information about the ways that change has affected the environment. (Language Arts Standard 1: Students engage in the research process.) This process includes:
 * Formulating questions
 * Gather and organize information
 * Synthesize your findings
 * Publish and present your findings.

[|GFPS Research Investigation Technology Integration Resources]