Children will be encouraged to think of this display area as special area of wonder and surprise. They can to add to the display in their own way. Make a note of the contributions children make to the display and how the growing and changing display helps develop their initiative, enthusiasm, and curiosity. Children reflect on their discoveries about deserts, rainforests, oceans, and forests. They relate their ideas and summarize what they have learned.
Children share with others what they have learned.
They brainstorm ways they can take what they have learned and put it to use outside the classroom. I will evaluate children s science projects using a scoring rubric. Language Arts skills will be emphasized when makes notes, recording observations and results, writing predictions, guesses, inferences, and conclusions in Science Logs, using diagrams, symbols, and words. Students will be writing a poem and rhyme, reading books about trees, rain forests, deserts, and pollution, writing descriptive words about water and ocean water, and using proper grammar in their reflective journaling. Social Studies skills will include discussing South Dakota s habitats, mapping desert and rain forests of the world, children will sort photos into photo albums for each ecosystem and learn about available careers.