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Lesson Plans - Water Wise
Objective: Students will identify the importance
of water to their lives and describe the importance of water through
vocabulary development, phrasing or poetry
Age: K-6
Time Allowance: 1 or 2 class periods
Materials: access to www.ogp.noaa.gov/tao pencils; paper;
large piece of butcher paper cut like a wave or a water drop or
some other water connection; construction paper; art supplies
Instruction:
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Enter my TAO Teacher at Sea website above. Click on "Photo
Album." View and stop at all the photos that have water in
them and comment on the water: its form, color, texture, designs,
activity, etc.
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Brainstorm with students the different ways we use water,
the different types of water, where our water comes from, etc.
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Use the water connection butcher paper on which to write every
word your students can think of that has to do with water. Make
it a contest to see how many they can come up with (winner gets
to drink from the water fountain!!). If your students are older,
have them do this individually, then with partners, then with
their cooperative groups and then they can report to you. Or have
them write the words on the butcher paper themselves. If you have
K or 1st, use pictures, too.
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Once they have come up with at least 100 words that have something
to do with water, have or help them start to group the words into
little word webs or outlines. Some of the words will naturally
go together, like:
- diving, swimming, splashing
- condensation, rainfall, evaporation
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At this point, you can have them work individually, in partnerships,
groups or whole group to either simply write the words on construction
paper cut into raindrops and post them somewhere; or writing simple
phrases or words (like "Water is…." or "Water…."),
or poetry, and writing them on blue/green/grey/white construction
paper with illustration, printing them out of the computer and
then illustrating them for display, perhaps like an stream or
river through your room. What you do depends on your comfort level
and the level of students in your room.
Evaluation/Assessment: The finished product which, after
display, you could bind into a class book.
Lesson Plan written by Dana Tomlinson
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