Description
After sorting animals into biomes, use fun informational passages to teach students about different biomes. In the process they’ll have fun engaging in research & taking notes.
🙌🏼 YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE HOW EASY IT IS TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT BIOMES WHILE TEACHING THEM BASIC RESEARCH & NOTE-TAKING SKILLS!
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Included
AFTER downloading this resource you’ll get:
⭐ Standards – based lesson that outlines how to teach students about biomes using hands-on inquiry.
⭐ Biome Sort activity: includes a sorting mat & graph sheet for students to graph their results.
⭐ Informational passage about biomes that provides basic information. Includes a note-taking graphic organizer.
⭐ Cut & paste activity for students to construct the definition of a biome.
⭐ Personality Quiz → Students answer questions about themselves to see which biome would make the best home for them.
⭐ Biome informational passages → use with the personality quiz! Students read about their biome match & then determine if it is a good fit for them.
⭐ 12 informational passages about different land & water biomes. Each provides basic information.
⭐ 4 note-taking graphic organizers to use with the biome fact sheets. Invites students to take notes in pictures and/or words.
⭐ Biome word scrambles! Students unscramble the letters to uncover the names of 12 different biomes. Answer Key Included!
Standards
This activity addresses the following standards:
AASL:
- Reflecting and questioning assumptions and possible misconceptions.
- Responsibly applying information, technology, and media to learning.
ISTE:
- Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
CCSS ELA:
- Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
CCSS MATH:
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Model with mathematics.
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