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all of the work we have done on our unit covering Daily and Seasonal Changes. I will try to include a brief explanation of the lesson,
as well as any worksheets we have used. Remember that the lesson plans are found on the grade 1 page. |
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Lesson 1 Introduction?
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We started today by discussing the weather outside. We
then talked a little about what the weather will be like in one month (on a
certain special day). That was followed with discussing the weather on
the last day of school. The questions was then asked, "Why is it
different?" After discussing the differences through seasons, we then
repeated a similar activity to talk about the differences between night and
day. Following this we made a list of words that help us in discussing
the seasons and times of day. To finish class we made a title page for
our new unit.
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Lesson 2 Sequences and Cycles
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At the start of class we were given a picture of a baby, a
boy, a teenager, a man and an old man, then we were asked to put them in
order. We discussed that this is a sequence - a list of things
in the order they happen. We then looked at an egg, a chick and a
chicken and put them in order. What we found out is that these three
could be in multiple orders because they are a cycle - a sequence that
repeats itself. We were given a short note to help us remember
these two words, and we practiced by cutting out pictures to put together
two sequences. Practice Pictures Note and Worksheet Cut-Outs Answers
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Lesson 3 Our Day
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Today we discussed the things we do before school, at school
and after school. We wrote these things out on chart paper as a class.
As we made these lists we found that there is a lot more to our day than we
first thought. Just listing all of the things we do took almost our
whole science period. After these lists were done we talked about our
task for next class.
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Lesson 4 Our Daily Cycle
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When we arrived in class today we reviewed one of the lists
we made last class. As we read it we discovered that it was just a
list, it was not a sequence. Luckily for us, Mr Collinson had taken
the lists from all the grade 1 classes and made them into one big long
sequence. On the paper that listed these events in sequence, each of
our names had been written beside one event (chosen alphabetically).
We were each told what event we were going to be responsible for, and our
task was explained to us. It turned out that there was one event for
each grade 1 in the school. Each of us took a blank piece of paper and
drew a picture to represent the task to which we were assigned. We
then wrote a sentence at the bottom of our picture to explain what event we
were representing After we are all done, the pictures will be put into
a booklet titled "Our Daily Cycle."
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Lesson 5 Day vs Night
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For today's class we started with our worksheet. The
concepts for this lesson are ones with which we are already somewhat
familiar. The worksheet has us sort some words into those that are
associated with "day" and others with "night". We then used these same
words to complete some sentences about day and night. The last part of
the worksheet today had us take two of the same picture and add drawings and
colour to make one of them a daytime picture and one of them a night time
picture. At the end of class we discussed the answers to this
worksheet, and focused on the daytime being warmer than night time because
our side of the earth is not facing the sun.
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Lesson 6 Day vs Night Activities
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We sat in a circle on the carpet today. A picture was
placed in the middle of the circle and we answered a few questions:
What is the picture? When do we do this activity (day or night)?
Why do we do this activity then? We repeated this process for a whole
group of activities, sorting them into day and night activities. As we
progressed we discussed the fact that day activities rely on light or heat
and night activities are due to lack of light and heat.
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Lesson 7 Light and Heat
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We reviewed some of the activities we talked about last
class. In doing so we reinforced the concept that the daytime is
lighter and (normally) warmer than the night time. Our next task was
to learn how to interpret a thermometer. We discussed that the height
of the "red" line indicates the temperature, the higher the line, the hotter
it is. We talked about representing the heat from the sun with a
thermometer and the light from the sun with a light bulb. We used this
analogy to complete a worksheet to show the light and heat through the day.
We read through the worksheet and sat down with our scissors.
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Lesson 8 Day/Night Cycle Craft
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For today's lesson we made a craft. The purpose of the
craft was to show the rotation of the sun and moon. The basic idea was
to use half a paper plate as a scene with a second, full, paper plate in the
background that could rotate around showing day and night above that scene.
Full instructions are below.
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Lesson 9 Sun and Stars Video
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Today we watched a video about the sun and stars. This
video gave us some information about stars and told us all about how our
star, the sun, gives us heat and light. It was also very helpful to show us
that the amount of light and heat changes throughout the day because the
Earth spins, and we are not always facing the sun.
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Lesson 10 My Favourite Season
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We started today' lesson with a review of sequences, cycles
and the cycle of day and night, including the changes in heat and light.
Following that we talked about other examples of cycles, eventually leading
us to talking about the four seasons. We each had the opportunity to
discuss our favourite season in front of the class.
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Lesson 11 Seasons
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Today's lesson was backwards (we didn't follow the normal
sequence). At the start of class we were handed a worksheet and
asked to complete it. The worksheet allowed us to show some
differences amongst the four seasons. We then discussed the answers as
a class. When we were done with our worksheet we then gathered to
discuss the seasons. As a class, we made lists of words that are
associated with each season.
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Lesson 12 Seasonal Activities
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We sat in a circle on the carpet again today. As in
lesson 6, a picture was
placed in the middle of the circle and we answered a few questions:
What is the picture? When do we do this activity (season)?
Why do we do this activity then? We repeated this process for a whole
group of activities, sorting them into the four seasons. As we
progressed we discussed the fact that heat is the main contributor to the
activities that can be done in certain seasons. Quiz - We will be having a quiz at the start of lesson 15. Today a note went home with all of the quiz questions. Make sure you study.
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Lesson 13 Days and Months
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To start today's lesson we sat together to review the four
seasons, and the cycle that they make. We then talked about the length
of time taken for the cycle (one year). This led us into a discussion
of other cycles, specifically the months, which also for a one year cycle,
and the days of the week. To help us both remember the order and the
spelling of the months and days we played a matching game. We also
have a worksheet that we did not get to today, it is included below, we will
get to it next class. Rules:
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Lesson 14 Seasonal Picture
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For today's activity we were to draw a picture of something
during a specific season. We were then to write words associated with
our picture, that indicate the season. The last step was to write a
sentence about our picture. When we were done our picture, we took
some time to complete any unfinished work and then played the game from last
class.
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Lesson 15 Quiz
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It was quiz day today. Each question of our quiz was
read out loud and we indicated our answers. When we were done our quiz
we again played our matching game. Note to parents: This quiz was not a difficult quiz. A perfect score on this will help the term two grade, but it is by no means the only assessment considered.
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Lesson 16 Seasons Video
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Today, to take a break after our quiz, we watched a video: Bill Nye the Science Guy - Earth's Seasons. In watching the video, we were to master one concept - The Earth is tilted. This helps explain all of our learning about the seasons. I managed to find part of the video on youtube.
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Lesson 17 Amount of Daylight
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Now that we know the Earth is tilted, it was time to look at
another strange thing that happens through the seasons. We started by
talking about the "strange" thing the sun has been doing lately - it is
setting really early. We then talked about the fact that the sun was
up pretty late during our summer vacation. We related this to the
Earth's tilt and learned that there is much less daylight during winter than
there is in summer. We looked at a graph showing the number of
daylight hours per month, and in doing so we learned a little about how to
read graphs. We discussed the details, and the fact that June 21st is
the first day of summer and the longest day of the year, and December 21st
is the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year.
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Lesson 18 Changes in Animals
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We started today's lesson by reading a section of a book
called "Do Not Disturb," which was all about animal hibernation. We
learned that there are many different ways that animals hibernate.
After discussing the reading we talked about other things animals do when
the seasons change (migration, shedding, etc.) We listed a few of
these things on our worksheet.
Homework: Today one class was given a homework assignment. The other classes will get the same assignment in the coming weeks. Only one class can do the assignment at a time because it involves bringing home a thermometer from the school, and we only have one class set. The assignment is to track the temperature at home over the course of a week. Each student was given a tracking sheet and a thermometer (the thermometers are brand new so please be careful). The students were instructed to check the temperature at home in the morning, the afternoon, the evening and at night. They were to record this data on their tracking sheet, and when done they were to work with an adult to answer some questions about their data. Please return the thermometers back to school when your data is complete.
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Lesson 19 Changes in Plants
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We reviewed the concept that animals change their behaviour
when the seasons change, and then discussed that animals are not the only
living thing to change when the weather changes. We talked about some
of the changes we had already mentioned (flowers blooming, leaves changing),
and then we talked about food. We thought about when we eat certain
things, and realized that some of our fruits and vegetables are only around
during certain season. This led us to our task today, we were given a
sheet with 9 different fruits and vegetables and we were to cut them out and
paste them in groups by season. We took up the answers and discussed
the fact that the answers would be different if we lived in another place in
the world (and in fact maybe even the data where the answers were taken from
could be from a different part of the world.)
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Lesson 20 Human Inventions to Help with Seasonal Activities
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Today's activity involved looking at five pictures and a
video, one at a time, in six groups. Each of the pictures showed an
activity that could not be done at all times of the year without human
inventions. The video was a short clip about "Ski Dubai," and indoor
ski park in the desert town of Dubai India. As we looked at each we
were to discuss four questions with our group:
At the end of the lesson we got together to discuss our findings, and also to discuss other things we could do to allow more year round activities. Pictures Video (no longer online)
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Lesson 21 Seasonal Energy Use
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We started today's class by looking at some pictures.
In doing so we discussed when the objects in the pictures would be used, why
we would need them, and how they helped us. One of these pictures was
of a furnace, and this led us into today's discussion of energy use.
We were divided into small groups, and each group was given a copy of a gas
bill. We looked it over and found that there was information on there
that pertained to the seasons. We discussed the fact that humans use
more gas in the winter because it is cold and the furnace uses gas to keep
us warm. We then talked about the air conditioner being similar in
terms of electricity in the summer.
During today's class we were told that we will be writing a test next week. We were given a review sheet with all of the things that we have learned about daily and seasonal changes. |
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Lesson 22 Temperature Homework Discussion
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This lesson will be done out of order, as only one class will
be doing this activity at a time. It has been a week since we sent home our thermometers. Today's lesson was a discussion about our results from our experiment at home. We talked about the temperature throughout the week and the day. We also talked about the accuracy of the equipment we used. This helped us to understand experimental error, which occurs in all experiments.
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Lesson 23 Finish-Up / Take-Up
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The first thing we did today was to organize all of the
papers in our science folder. Once they were stapled together we were
to use the period to finish up any incomplete work. Also, the answer
keys for each of the sheets was laid out around the room. We took our
booklet and cycled around to be sure our answers were all correct.
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Lesson 24 Review
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We used today's period to review for our test next class.
The review sheet (lesson 21), and the actual test were used to make
questions for a game to help us study. The first game we played was a
true/false game. We were read a sentence and then had to move to a "T"
sign, or a "F" sign. We then had to explain why we went there.
We later worked together to come up with answers to some more in depth
questions. We were told to remember to add detail to our answers so
that we can obtain full marks on our test.
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Lesson 25 Test
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Today we wrote out unit test on Daily and Seasonal Changes.
Each question was read out loud to us, we had the opportunity to have our
answers written for us, and we all conferenced with Mr. C. when we were
done.
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| This concludes our unit on Daily and Seasonal Changes. Our next unit is Materials, Objects and Everyday Structures. | ||||||
