3rd grade Instructional Guide

GRADE3 SCIENCE

McGraw Hill Unit 2: Life Cycles and Traits

Module: Animals

Lesson 1: Animal Life Cycles Lesson 2: Animal Traits Lesson 3: Animal Group Survival

More Animal Life Cycles

I can explain animal life cycles so I can compare insects to other types of animals. (e.g.,birds, reptiles, fsh) Success Criteria: I know I am successful when I can label the life cycle of a mammal, bird, or reptile and explain each phase of the life cycle and tell how it is similar or different to the life cycle of the caterpillar.

Explain: Compare/

30 Min After reading about animal life cycles, hang up the animal life cycle posters in your classroom. Allow students to go on a gallery walk and identify the types of animals they are (Insect, amphibian, reptile/bird/fsh, or mammal) according to the descriptions from the text. Have students then compare and contrast 2 different types of animal life cycles.

Animal life cycles posters

Not in McGraw Hill

Contrast/Identify Animal Life cycles

Evaluate: Lesson Review

15 Min Learning Intention:

60-61

I am learning to use information from activities and readings to make a claim about how babies grow up to be adults, so I can explain that baby animals have characteristics like their adult parents. Success Criteria: I know I am successful when I can explain how the cub will grow and develop using the patterns and models explained in the life cycle. *Use the CER model as a scaffold for the writing prompt.

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