Environmental+and+Technological



**__ How do our senses (I see, I hear, I smell, I taste, I feel) help us learn about weather, plants, animals, and our natural and constructed worlds? __**
 * The following ideas and resources deal with natural and constructed worlds. The question would be asked for each unit on weather, plants and animals***

SE1.1 a,b,c,d,f,I,j
 * This unit also covers the following Science outcome/indicators-

SE1.2 a,c,d

[|KWL Chart] To begin unit (Gives guiding questions and allows the students to do some questioning)

White Rabbit's Colour Book - colour mixing - create a colour wheel as a class- or supply students with thier own colour wheels to create

Too Much Noise- by Ann McGovern
- introduction lesson- identify sounds activity (eg: animal sounds, city sounds, ....) - Representing sounds of things- supplying instruments, or items around the room - Retell story using "sound effects" [|I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato] by Lauren Child - Class Big Book..."I Will Never Not Ever Eat a __"__

Yummy Yucky- Reading A to Z - Classifying "yummy" "yucky" foods- using grocery flyers - Labelling

__Farley Follows His Nose byLynn Johnston__ - Sequencing Acitivty - Mystery Smell Bags - Talking about Safety When Smelling Things (danger signs) - Talk about "good smells" and "bad smells"- Could be done as a cut/paste activity or on a Smartboard

__Touch and Feel Books__ - a variety of touch and feel books - create your own touch and feel book (working with an older class/reding buddies or as a center) - create a book using digital camera- having students look for certain "touch words"- Eg: things that are hot, cold, bumpy.... - Using the digital picture idea- have the students report to the class on things they found (presentation)

“Playground Fun” – Out on the Playground (Cornerstones Program) - Discuss the things you see, hear, touch, and smell while investigating on the playground - Viewing/speaking - Representing

Songs about Senses: Youtube

Modeling Sense Organs - Representing - Playdoh/Modelling Clay - "show me what body part you use to smell"...

Poster- Art- Inside the Sugar Shack (also available in Art Images Kit #1) - find all senses in this work of art (what do you smell, taste,...)

[|Earth and Space Science – Daily and Seasonal Changes (DS)DS1.1 Compare and represent daily and seasonal changes of natural phenomena through observing,measuring, sequencing, and recording.DS1.2 Inquire into the ways in which plants, animals, and humans adapt to daily and seasonal changes bychanging their appearance, behaviour, and/or location.]
 * What role does weather have in our daily and seasonal lives? How does weather affect us? How do we keep ourselves healthy and safe in different kinds of weather?**
 * Also covers Science Outcomes:


 * [|Daily Weather Report](could be daily as part of an Opening/Morning Excersises)**
 * - Listen to daily weather report- listen for specific weather words**
 * - Graphing the Weather**
 * - Dressing a "weather bear"**


 * [|It Looked Like Spilt Milk] and/or Little Cloud**
 * -Good resorce for viewing and representing**
 * - Rip Art- ripping paper to look like a shape**
 * -Pattern Write- Pattern Book**

Video: [|Weather- A First Look]- unitedstreaming

Cloudy with a Chance of Meathballs - Make a class big book - Representing- think about what you would like to see raining down for dinner on your town- draw a picture of it - speaking- prepare a weather report to present to the class (today's weather, tomorrow's...)

Aesop Fabel- The North Wind and the Sun Video - Dramatize

The Snowy Day Video - making a chart- short activities according to season

Where Do Butterflies Go When it Rains - Chart- as a class- or individually- have students show what animals do when it rains (illustrate or write) - pocket chart/smartboard- sorting - write about what they (students) do when it rains- [|Pete's a Pizza]

Snowballs - Create a collage based on the illustrations in this story

Listen to the Rain - Create rain sounds as a class

The Grasshopper and the Ant (short story)- Look Around- Cornertones - discussion how animals and people get ready for winter

Vera Trembacch- Poems- "Rebus Chants Volume one- For all seasons" - Story of a Little Leaf - It is Winter - Snowman

Whole Group Ideas** __Viewing__


 * classroom pet
 * plants / animals (composting worms in classroom)
 * go out and take temperature
 * video "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"
 * nature walk
 * Brain Pop
 * Magic School Bus Cracks a Yolk

=Listening=
 * nature walk
 * trip to greenhouse, zoo, farm, animal sanctuary
 * //Diary of a Worm//
 * Eric Carle books

=Reading=
 * //Tops and Bottoms//
 * //Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs//
 * //Collections: Under My Hood, Around My Place//
 * Lois Elhart
 * senses through Popcorn
 * Eric Carle - plants, animals

=Representing=
 * draw plants and label
 * nature collage
 * graph the weather
 * graph plant growth
 * plasticene animals
 * diorama (weather)
 * weather maps / graphs

=Speaking=
 * give weather report
 * dress the "frog" for the weather
 * how they take care of their pet (in pairs)
 * show and tell (pets)

=Writing= .
 * writing letters of thank you
 * write about the trip
 * record daily temperature
 * story starter w/ //Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs//
 * how to take care of a (plant / animal / pet)
 * sense poems
 * plant log
 * adjectives for the senses
 * When it is sunny I can wear _.
 * When it rains I can, I can't

=Curriculum Connections=

Science - Little Green Thumbs club / puppets from Wakamow Valley (lesson plans included - use to study wildlife in the park. Fits with all strands).