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By Connie Klaudt. Arctic Animal Unit. Questions. Essential Questions: What questions will lead student learning? What animals live in the arctic regions? How do animals survive harsh weather in the arctic regions? How can I find and share information about arctic animals?.
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By Connie Klaudt Arctic Animal Unit
Questions • Essential Questions: What questions will lead student learning? • What animals live in the arctic regions? • How do animals survive harsh weather in the arctic regions? • How can I find and share information about arctic animals?
Using 21st Century Skills • http://weather.cnn.com • http://googleearth.com • Short video to introduce Arctic Animals. http://www.youtube.com • Identifying and Recognizing Arctic Animals SMART Notebook lesson • Search Web sites to get information: • http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/arctic/Awildlife.html • http://kids.yahoo.com/ • http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/animals.htm
21st Century Skills Continued • http://edu.glogster.com Using the Glogster web site students will create a report with the information they found in their searches about the arctic animal and show case it to the class as their report. Print it for later.
21st Century Skills • Present information gathered by using organization charts, graphs, or diagrams using http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn/ • Or Microsoft office or excel • Create postcards at http://www.readwritethink.org/files /resources/interactives/postcard/ • http://www.weeklyreader.com/SubscriberOnly/login.aspxhose.
21st Century Skills • http://todaysmeet.com Students will collaborate and share the information they have found on arctic animals.
Conclusion • To enhance learning take any unit you teach and add these 21st century skills. • There are so many ways information can be taught to students using these skills. • I believe kids learn more when they actively take part.