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Lesson Plans The lesson plans listed below are designed to help teachers of grades K-12 incorporate earth science and anthropology into their classrooms. The lessons are designed to go hand-in-hand with the GeoGallery of object images from the ISM’s geology and anthropology collections. While written, for the most part, by teachers for grade levels matching their areas of expertise, you will find most lessons can easily be adapted to other grade levels. Lessons sorted by learning standards: Benchmark 3.B.1a: Use prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas (e.g., focus on one topic; organize writing to include a beginning, middle and end; use descriptive words when writing about people, places, things, events). Benchmark 3.B.3a: Produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display focus, organization, elaboration and coherence. Benchmark 3.B.3b: Edit and revise for word choice, organization, consistent point of view and transitions among paragraphs using contemporary technology and formats suitable for submission and/or publication. Benchmark 3.C.1a: Write for a variety of purposes including description, information, explanation, persuasion and narration. Benchmark 4.B.1b: Participate in discussions around a common topic. Benchmark 5.A.3a: Identify appropriate resources to solve problems or answer questions through research. Benchmark 5.A.3b: Design a project related to contemporary issues (e.g., real-world math, career development, community service) using multiple sources. Benchmark 5.C.1a: Write letters, reports and stories based on acquired information.
Benchmark 6.B.3a: Solve practical computation problems involving whole numbers, integers and rational numbers. Benchmark 6.B.3b: Apply primes, factors, divisors, multiples, common factors and common multiples in solving problems. Benchmark 6.D.3: Apply ratios and proportions to solve practical problems. Benchmark 7.B.3: Select and apply instruments including rulers and protractors and units of measure to the degree of accuracy required. Benchmark 7.C.3a: Construct a simple scale drawing for a given situation. Benchmark 7.C.3b: Use concrete and graphic models and appropriate formulas to find perimeters, areas, surface areas and volumes of two- and three-dimensional regions. State Goal 11: Understand the processes of scientific inquiry and technological design to investigate questions, conduct experiments, and to solve problems.
Learning Standard 11.A: Know and apply the concepts, principles, and processes of scientific inquiry.
Benchmark 11.A.1a: Describe an observed event.
Benchmark 11.A.1b: Develop questions on scientific topics. Benchmark 11.A.1c: Collect data for investigations using measuring instruments and technologies. Benchmark 11.A.1d: Record and store data using available technologies. Benchmark 11.A.1f: Compare observations of individuals and group results. Benchmark 11.A.2b: Collect data for investigations using scientific process skills including observing, estimating and measuring. Benchmark 11.A.2d: Use data to produce reasonable explanations. Benchmark 11.A.2e: Report and display the results of individual and group investigations. Benchmark 11.A.3a: Formulate hypotheses that can be tested by collecting data. Benchmark 11.A.3b: Conduct scientific experiments that control all but one variable. Benchmark 11.A.3c: Collect and record data accurately using consistent measuring and recording techniques and media.
Benchmark 11.A.3f: Interpret and represent results of analysis to produce findings. Benchmark 11.A.3g: Report and display the process and results of a scientific investigation. Benchmark 11.A.4: Collect, organize and analyze data accurately and precisely. Benchmark 11.A.4c: Collect, organize and analyze data accurately and precisely. Learning Standard 11.B: Know and apply the concepts, principles, and processes of technological design. Benchmark 11.B.1b: Design a device that will be useful in solving the problem. Benchmark 11.B.1d: Test the device and record results using given instruments, techniques and measurement methods. Learning Standard 12.A: Know and apply concepts that explain how living things function, adapt and change. Learning Standard 12.B: Know and apply concepts that describe how living things interact with each other and with their environment. Benchmark 12.C.1b: Compare large-scale physical properties of matter (e.g., size, shape, color, texture, odor). Benchmark 12.D.1a: Identify examples of motion (e.g., moving in a straight line, vibrating, rotating). Benchmark 12.D.1b: Identify observable forces in nature (e.g., pushes, pulls, gravity, magnetism). Learning Standard 12.E: Know and apply concepts that describe features and processes of the Earth and its resources.
Benchmark 12.E.1a: Identify components and describe diverse features of the Earth's land, water and atmospheric systems.
Benchmark 12.E.1b: Identify and describe patterns of weather and seasonal change. Benchmark 12.E.2a: Identify and explain natural cycles of the Earth's land, water and atmospheric systems (e.g., rock cycle, water cycle, weather patterns). Benchmark 12.E.2b: Describe and explain short-term and long-term interactions of the Earth's components (e.g., earthquakes, types of erosion). Benchmark 12.E.3a: Analyze and explain large-scale dynamic forces, events and processes that affect the Earth’s land, water and atmospheric systems. Benchmark 12.E.3b: Describe interactions between solid earth, oceans, atmosphere and organisms that have resulted in ongoing changes of Earth.
Benchmark 12.E.3c: Evaluate the biodegradability of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. Benchmark 12.E.4b: Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth. Benchmark 12.E.5: Analyze the processes involved in naturally occurring short-term and long-term Earth events (e.g., floods, ice ages, temperature, sea-level fluctuations). State Goal 13: Understand the relationship among science, technology and society in historical and contemporary contexts. Learning Standard 13.A.: Know and apply the accepted practices of science.
Benchmark 13.A.1a: Use basic safety practices. Benchmark 13.A.1c: Explain how knowledge can be gained by careful observation. Benchmark 13.A.2b: Explain why similar investigations may not produce similar results. Benchmark 13.A.3a: Identify and reduce potential hazards in science activities Benchmark 13.B.1d: Identify and describe ways that science and technology affect people's everyday lives. Benchmark 13.B.3c: Describe how occupations use scientific and technological knowledge and skills. Benchmark 13.B.3d: Analyze the interaction of resource acquisition, technological development and ecosystem impact (e.g., diamond, coal or gold mining; deforestation). Benchmark 16.A.1a: Explain the difference between past, present and future time; place themselves in time. Benchmark 16.A.1b: Ask historical questions and seek out answers from historical sources (e.g., myths, biographies, stories, old photographs, artwork, other visual or electronic sources). Benchmark 16.C.1a: Describe how Native American people in Illinois engaged in economic activities with other tribes and traders in the region prior to the Black Hawk War. Benchmark 17.B.3a: Explain how physical processes including climate, plate tectonics, erosion, soil formation, water cycle, and circulation patterns in the ocean shape patterns in the environment and influence availability and quality of natural resources. Benchmark 17.C.1a: Identify ways people depend on and interact with the physical environment (e.g., farming, fishing, hydroelectric power). Benchmark 26.A.1e: Identify media and tools and how to use them in a safe and responsible manner when painting, drawing and constructing.
Benchmark 26.B.1d: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create visual works of art using manipulation, eye-hand coordination, building and imagination. Benchmark 26.B.3d: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create 2- and 3- dimensional works and time arts (e.g., film, animation, video) that are realistic, abstract, functional, and decorative. |
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