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Understanding Characteristics: Distinguishing Qualities in People and Things

In this lesson, we explore the word "characteristics," which refers to the traits or features that help identify and differentiate individuals and objects. Characteristics can be physical, like curly hair, or contextual, such as the cold days typical of winter. We will discover synonyms like trait and feature, understand antonyms like atypical, and see real-life and literary examples. Through various activities, students will learn to describe characteristics, identify them in different contexts, and ability to communicate and play with the concept effectively.

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Understanding Characteristics: Distinguishing Qualities in People and Things

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  1. BAV Six Step Process • BAV Term: Characteristics • Subject: Science • Grade: 2nd

  2. Identify the word: characteristics

  3. 1. Description or explanation • Characteristics are • qualities or features that help distinguish a person or thing

  4. Synonyms trait feature quality attribute normal typical distinctive particular specific physical appearance Antonyms uncharacteristic atypical unusual unrepresentative rare Characteristics

  5. Real-life Associations • Curly hair is a characteristic of our family. • Feathers are a characteristic of birds. • Vertebrates have bones as a characteristic. • Cold days are characteristic of winter weather in Oklahoma. • Skyscrapers may be a characteristic of urban communities.

  6. Movie/TV/Music/Literary Associations • Peanuts Lucy, Charlie Brown, Snoopy • Spiderman or other Superheroes • Sponge Bob characters • Dan Gutman series; Miss Daisy is Crazy, Mr. Klutz is Nutz, etc. • Beverly Cleary series • Genres of music; jazz, classical, hip-hop, etc. • Genres of art; pointillism, impressionism, etc. • Max and Ruby; Rosemary Wells characters

  7. Quotes • “If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.” -Jennifer Jones, actress • “Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.” -Samuel Johnson, English poet • “The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.” - Anna Letitia Barbauld

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  10. characteristics A sentence • begins with a capital letter. • has a punctuation mark at the end. • has a subject and a predicate. • is a complete thought.

  11. Student-friendly Description • Characteristics help us tell things apart. • They are the ways things are alike and different. • They help us describe things and remember things. • They make things interesting.

  12. Analogies • Green is to color as ants are to insects. • Big is to enormous as cold is to freezing. • Dollar is to bill as dime is to coin. • Iron is to rigid as rubber is to flexible. • Car is to travel as read is to learn.

  13. 2. Describe the word characteristics in your own words.

  14. 3. Construct a picture, symbol or other graphic that represents the word characteristics.

  15. 4. Next day-Periodic activities that adds to knowledge • What’s My Rule • Shape Game • Button Sort • Human Graphs • Communities- Rural, Suburban, Urban (draw, describe, dramatize) • Sort literature by genre

  16. 5. Think, pair and share. • Think about the word characteristics. • Turn to your partner and discuss the word. • What does it mean? • Can you think of another meaning? • What are some examples? • How can you use it in a sentence?

  17. 6. Play games that allow you to play with the term characteristics. • Guess the characteristic as another students pantomimes.

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