Survival+in+an+Environment

A life science unit for 4th grade

This is a unit that works in conjunction with the Foss science kit. It contains activities and assessments that encompass the five investigations. It reinforces the vocabulary that is included in the unit. As the students use the five investigations they will use vocabulary such as decomposer and food chain to create vocabulary books. The unit provides activities using technology to enhance the learning of the investigations. The student will have the opportunity to use the social networking site Edmodo as the delivery system for their assignments. The students will be using other software such as Publisher, ActivInspire, and / or Power Point to create food webs/chains and other tasks. They will create their own rubrics for their projects and will assess each other as well as themselves. The final project will summarize what the student has learned in either a Power Point presentation or ActivInspire flipchart. There are formative assessments and the summative assessment uses the existing district or the Foss kit benchmarks.