Students compile a class poem, story, or booklet and make puppets to help them dramatize the roles of various living things. Students practice field trip investigations on the school grounds. The class attends a field trip to a natural community where students use their senses to explore the area. Students observe some living things and use a paper tube to discover several animals' homes. The class removes litter from the study area and later categorizes it by items that can be recycled.
Students share ways they have shown kindness to other living things.
They learn about Henry Bergh and Beatrix Potter and listen to the story Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney to determine ways people have cared for and protected living things. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey and discuss how people showed they cared about the ducklings. Students imagine and then draw themselves doing something which could help living things. They brainstorm ways people can show they care for living things and design a class art project illustrating these positive actions. Students listen to ideas for several class projects.