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Student Devices Pencils Colored Pencils, markers, or crayons Grade 3 Research Packet Any books about habitats and the living things that live there (see list on previous page) ○​ Series: Animal Habitats by Julie Murray ○​ Series: North American Animals Blast-off Readers ○​ Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous LIves of a Rainforest Tree by Kate Messner ○​ Over and Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner Read Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree or Over and Under the Rainforest. Have students brainstorm questions while you read. Explain that the rainforest is a habitat, a specific kind of place many living things live. Introduce big question, explain project expectations, and hand out research packet. Students choose a habitat to research from provided list. You may choose to organize students into pairs or groups.

Student Devices Pencils Colored Pencils, markers, or crayons Grade 4 Research Packet Any books about Utah native animals or insects (see list on previous page) ○​ Series: North American Animals Blast-off Readers ○​ Over and Under the Canyon by Kate Messner ○​ Max Almost Missed It by Chris Britt

Student Devices Pencils Colored Pencils, markers, or crayons Grade 5 Research Packet Any books about the power of the sun, photosynthesis, and food chains ○​ Series: Power of the Sun ○​ Series: Food Chain Kings by Katherine Eason ○​ At Home with the Prairie Dog: The Story of a Keystone Species by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent ○​ If You Take Away the Otter by Susannah Burnham-Deever

Resources

Week 3

Teacher-led

Read Over and Under the Canyon or Max Almost Missed It . Make connections to Utah environments while you read. Have students brainstorm questions while you read. Introduce big question, explain project expectations, and hand out research packet.

Read At Home with the Prairie Dog or If You Take Away the Otter and introduce topic of energy and ecosystems. Introduce big question, explain project expectations, and hand out research packet.

Student-led

Students choose a Utah animal, insect, or plant to research (from available list). You may choose to

Support student research to discover how the sun’s energy enters ecosystems. Students identify keyword search terms

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