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Teacher's Guide
| Name of Tale |
Jack and The Beanstalk |
| Language Level |
3 |
| Unit Name |
Where Are The Animals? |
| Targeted Benchmark |
Domain: Social Interaction
Benchmark: Pupils express feelings, likes and dislikes |
| Content Theme |
Animals |
| Number of Lessons |
6 lessons |
| Desired Outcome |
By the end of the unit, pupils will be able to express their feelings about endangered animals, and think of ways to help them. |
Stages for achieving the desired outcome:
- The teacher should discuss the concepts of expressing feelings and empathy for people or animals. Pupils will read the tale, "Yako in the Jungle". Pupils will pretend to be one of the characters from the tale and write sentences expressing the feelings of that character.
- Pupils will complete a series of activities that will introduce and teach the needed vocabulary for searching endangered animals websites. This will include animal families, animal habitats and information about the dangers facing some animals.
- Pupils will browse the Making Waves Endangered Animals website and read about various endangered animals. They will then choose one animal and write a report about it, expressing their feelings toward that animal and presenting information about it.
- Pupils will suggest ideas for helping to save an animal. Pupils will suggest one idea of their own and find other ideas by surveying the reports of other pupils. While surveying the reports, pupils will be asked to write comments in guestbooks of other pupils.
- As a follow-up to the unit, teachers may decide to have an Animal Action Day. Ideas for this can be found in the Teacher's Guide for Task 4.
Task Stages
| Task
Number |
Task
Name |
Desired
Task Outcome |
Time
Needed |
Task
Description |
| 1 |
What Do Animals Feel? |
Pupils will be able to express and respond to the feelings of the characters in the story, "Yako in the Jungle", by completing sentences about that character. |
2 lessons |
Pupils read the story, "Yako in the Jungle".Pupils will pretend to be one of the characters and express the feelings of that character by completing sentences that describe its feelings. |
| 2 |
Talking About Animals |
Pupils will be able to understand and use vocabulary related to animals and endangered species in order to browse websites about endangered species. |
1 lesson |
Some of the vocabulary connected to animals (habitats, families, and dangers) is introduced through several interactive activities. |
| 3 |
Endangered Animals |
Pupils will submit a report about an endangered animal to the Making Waves Endangered Animals site. |
2 lessons |
Pupils will read about an endangered animal and then find further information about it. Pupils will answer questions about that animal in a report, and submit the report to the Making Waves Endangered Animals site. |
| 4 |
Take Action |
Pupils will be able to suggest ways to help the animal they chose. |
1 lesson |
Pupils will survey several animal reports in order to make a list of ways to help endangered animals. These ideas will then be presented to the class. |
Assessment
At the end of the unit, pupils will complete a checklist assessing their work in the unit.
Teacher's Guide links:
- Teacher's Guide home page
- Fairy Tale Adventures
- Jack Level 1: Unit plan, Task 1, Task 2, Task 3, Task 4, Check
- Jack Level 2: Unit plan, Task 1, Task 2, Task 3, Task 4, Check
- Jack Level 3: Unit plan, Task 1, Task 2, Task 3, Task 4, Check
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