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Standard 1: Students will develop a sense of self. Objective 1: Describe and adopt behaviors for health and safety. - Explain the importance of balance in a diet.
- Relate behaviors that can help prevent disease.
- As a class, brainstorm all the different things students can do to help prevent disease. Use the list as a starting point. Sample web with ideas.
- Have students select one of the behaviors and complete a postcards encouraging their friends to prevent disease by practicing the healthy behavior. On one side of the postcards, students illustrate their behavior. On the other side, students write a letter to their friends and include a description of how to be safe and a description of why it is important.
- Adopt Basic Safety
Objective 2: Develop and apply skills in fine and gross motor movement - Participate daily in sustained periods of physical activity that requires exertion.
- Use The Graph Club (software found in several elementary computer labs) to chart progress. Learn more about The Graph Club.
Objective 3: Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings. - Create works of art depicting depth and improving accuracy (close objects large, distant objects small) using secondary and tertiary colors.
- Develop ability to sing in tune with relaxed strength and clarity
- Develop consistency in rhythmic accuracy in body percussion and instrument playing.
Standard 2: Students will develop a sense of self in relation to families and community. Objective 1: Describe behaviors that influence relationships with family and friends. - Explain how families and communities change over time.
- Recognize how choices and consequences affect self, peers, and family.
- Use the Choices, Choices software program from Tom Snyder. This program helps students develop skills to make wise choices and take responsibility for their behavior.
Objective 2: Examine important aspects of the community and culture that strengthen relationships. - Compare rural, suburban, and urban communities.
- Students can create their own 3-D community using The Community Construction Kit. This software program allows students to design buildings from different historical periods and print them as 3-D cutouts. Read more about this software program at Tom Snyder Productions.
- Brainstorm words for each type of community. Have students use the words to create poems about each type of community.
- Use a digital camera to take photos of their community. iLife Lesson Idea
- Complete the community Kidspiration Templates:
- Relate goods and services to resources within the community
- Participate in activities that promote public good and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Have the class create a "Pledge of Allegiance" slideshow. Students can start by sketching their page using this storyboard. Students can then create their own pages or use these KidPix templates.
- Visit Ben Franklin's Guide to US Government. Read the Ben's ABCs. Have students create their own ABC book of the government.
- U.S. Symbols Match Game Have your students match up identical symbols by remembering their position in this online and patriotic version of Concentration.
- Post Card Idea Organize a community clean-up activity, literacy event, math event, Sub-for-Santa, Box tops collection, etc. and have students design an invitation to the event stating time, place, day and how the event will help the community. AppleWorks TemplatesMicrosoft Templates | Sample postcard |Objective 3: Express relationships in a variety of ways
- Describe traditions, music dances, artwork, poems, rhymes, and stories that distinguish cultures.
- Develop an acting ability to relate to characters' thoughts and feelings in stories and plays.
- Create and perform/exhibit dances, visual art, music, and dramatic stories from a variety of cultures expressing the relationship between people and their culture.
Standard 3: Students will develop an understanding of their environment.Objective 1: Investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives - Observe and describe relationships between plants and animals.
- Describe the life cycle of local plants and animals using diagrams and pictures.
Objective 2: Observe and describe weather. - Observe and describe patterns of change in weather. Chart weather over time.
- What is weather. This site contains short animations that illustrate various weather terms. Students can explore changes in weather for many of the terms.
- Measure, record, graph, and report changes in local weather.
- Describe how weather affects people and animals.
- Draw pictures and create dances and sounds that represent weather features.
Objective 3: Investigate the properties and uses of rocks. - Describe rocks in terms of the parts that make up the rocks.
- Visit this SurWeb slide show "Rock Characteristics"
http://www.surweb.org/ls/ls_view.asp?lsid=1030 This site includes a couple of slide shows focusing on the "Use of Rocks" and "Characteristics of Rocks." It also includes a quiz covering the information in the slideshows. - Sort rocks based upon color, hardness, texture, layering, and particle size.
- Identify how the properties of rocks determine how people use them.
- Create artworks using rocks and rock products.
Objective 4: Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment. - Identify and use information on a map or globe.
- See you See Me -- Landscapes. This is an interactive site that teachers students map skills. Compass, Grid System Symbols & Keys, and Scale are covered.
- Dublin Activity. Students use a street map and compass rose to locate landmarks in Dublin.
- Weather Map. Students place symbols on a map according to the weather.
- Map Symbols Snap. Students play a game of Snap, matching map symbols and words. (Some words may be unfamiliar to students.)
- Create community maps with Neighborhood MapMachine (a Tom Snyder software program). Students can create, navigate, and print maps of their neighborhoods. Trees, buildings, and parks can be added to the maps.
- Create community homes, buildings, and people to include in your neighborhood map with Community Construction Kit (a Tom Snyder software program).
- Post Card Idea Make a map of your community using kidpix. Send the map and directions for getting to your school to a visiting speaker, the substitute office, families, etc.
AppleWorks Templates | Microsoft Templates - Create a neighborhood map of your school at www.mapquest.com. Copy and paste the map into Kidspiration or Inspriation. Save as a template. Have students identify community resources that are found in their neighborhood and place symbols in Kidspiration for those resources.
- Use an atlas and globe to locate information.
- Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe.
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