3rd grade Instructional Guide

GRADE3 SCIENCE

McGraw Hill Unit 3: Different Environments

Module: Survive the Environment

Lesson 1: Survival of Organisms Lesson 2: Adaptations and Variations

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS 1. What organisms need to survive 2. How different organisms survive in different environments 3. Some animals survive better in certain environments than others END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE FEATURES & FUNCTIONS I can explain that a change in an environment can impact the types of animals and plants that live there.

Language Functions and Features: ● Nouns to defne phenomenon (adaptation, behavior) ● Connectors to signal causality (therefore, as a result, because) ● Declarative statements to make a claim ( Drought causes plants to die.) FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

● 3.2.5 Formative Assessment ● 3.2.6 Formative Assessment

VOCABULARY

● Competition ● Ecosystem ● Resource ● adaptation

● Behavior ● Camoufage ● Hibernation

● Migrate ● Mimicry

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building

● Utilize ACT (Access Complex Text) and EL Support in Curriculum ● Make connections each day to the phenomenon. ● Explicitly teach the CER model to students for explaining phenomenon. ● Utilize the Leveled Library for additional background reading about content.

● Utilize the STEM career connections and

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