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.
They select and implement a class project to help living things. Evaluation Teachers evaluate their students' knowledge of and feelings about living things by having them complete oral, written, and pictorial tasks. The students share with the class what they consider to be the best thing about this unit.