Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others
Adaptations and the Wide World of Frogs and other Sea Animals.
In this module, students will use literacy skills to become experts— people who use reading, writing, listening and speaking to build and share deep knowledge about a topic. The module will begin with a class study of the bullfrog, an example of a “true frog,” that exhibit typical frog characteristics. Students will read The Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle and then research what else is found in and around a bayou. In Unit 2, students will form research groups to become experts on various “freaky” frogs—frogs that push the boundaries of “froginess” with unusual adaptations that help them to survive in extreme environments throughout the world. Students will build their reading, research, writing and collaborative discussion skills through studying their expert frog. Throughout the module, students will consistently reflect on the role of literacy in building and sharing expertise.
Módulo 2
Investigar para desarrollar el conocimiento y enseñar a otros.
Las adaptaciones y el mundo amplio de las ranas y otros animales marinos.
En este módulo los estudiantes usarán las habilidades de alfabetización para llegar a ser expertos: las personas que utilizan la lectura, escritura, comprensión auditiva y expresión oral para construir y compartir el conocimiento profundo sobre un tema. El módulo empezará con un estudio de la rana toro, un ejemplo de una “verdadera rana” que exhibe características típicas de una rana. Los estudiantes leerán La rana toro en el círculo Magnolia y luego investigarán lo que se encuentra en y alrededor de un pantano. En unidad 2, los estudiantes formarán grupos de investigación para convertirse en expertos en varias ranas “raras”- las ranas que empujan los límites de las características de ranas con adaptaciones inusuales que les ayudan a sobrevivir en ambientes extremos en todo el mundo. Los estudiantes desarrollarán sus habilidades de la lectura, la investigación, la escritura y de la discusión de colaboración a través del estudio de una rana. A lo largo del módulo, los estudiantes reflexionarán constantemente sobre el papel de la alfabetización (lectura) para desarrollar y compartir sus conocimientos.
Links for more Information about the Freaky Frogs we are learning about!
Click here for more information on the freaky frogs we are learning about!
Link about Freaky Frogs
Red-Eyed Tree Frog:
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Water Holding Frog:
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Amazon Horned Frog
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Glass Frog
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Some of our Freaky Frogs we are studying include:
The Water-Holding Frog
The Red-Eyed Tree Frog
The Poison-Dart Frog
The Glass Frog
The Amazon Horned Frog
Take a look at some videos that will teach you more about these amazing frogs!
The Water-Holding Frog
The Red-Eyed Tree Frog
The Poison-Dart Frog
The Glass Frog
The Amazon Horned Frog
Take a look at some videos that will teach you more about these amazing frogs!
Central Texts for this Module:
Deborah Dennard, Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, illustrated by Kristin Kest (Trudy Corporation and the Smithsonian Institute, 2012)
Carmen Bredeson, Poison Dart Frogs Up Close (Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2009)
Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures, (DK Publishing, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2011)
Lincoln James, Deadly Poison Dart Frogs (Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2012)
Valerie Worth, All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, illustrated by Natalie Babbitt (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
Douglas Florian, Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005),
Deborah Dennard, Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, illustrated by Kristin Kest (Trudy Corporation and the Smithsonian Institute, 2012)
Carmen Bredeson, Poison Dart Frogs Up Close (Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2009)
Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures, (DK Publishing, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2011)
Lincoln James, Deadly Poison Dart Frogs (Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2012)
Valerie Worth, All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, illustrated by Natalie Babbitt (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
Douglas Florian, Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005),