Explain to the children that even though they have completed a unit on the Great Outdoors, they will continue to learn about the habitats that exist outside nature, and each day they will enjoy being outside and gaining new knowledge about the world. There will be a classroom space set aside where children can display such natural specimens as leaves, flowers, branches, interesting rocks, and so on. 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.