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 * Content Area Unit Title- Water cycle **

**Lesson title:** How does the Water Cycle Work and How Does the Water Get to the Ocean?

**Lesson Description:** This lesson is designed to introduce students to the water cycle and how it works. It will allow students to create the idea of how the water moves across the Earth and enters the oceans. The unit will include three major lessons.The first lesson will introduce students to the water cycle and introduce different types of water. We will gather information about the water cycle using many different websites and informational books. We will also be in contact with a meteorologist(hopefully).

**Grade**: First Grade

**Subjects Addressed:** Science, Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

**Content Standards**: __Reading, Science, Writing, and Speaking and Listening Common Core Standards __ (Common Core Standards Imitative, 2011 a,b,c) RI.1.1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text RI.1.6. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. RI.1.10. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1 W.1.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups SL.1.4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

The lesson will start off with the question on the board stating: “Where does the Water Go” I will show many different pictures of different types of water as a slide show while they are thinking about the question. The students will write their responses in their journals. The next step will be a KWL chart depicting what the students know about water and where it goes, what they want to know about water, and what they will learn about water. For the KWL chart I cut out paper in the shape of a cloud and have rain drops for each comment about rain that the students gave me. I will then show them a interactive lesson about the Water Cycle and allow for a class discussion about what is happening during the water cycle.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive board <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Water Cycle Smart Notebook Lesson Plan <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">poster size cut out of a cloud <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rain shape cut outs <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Journal for each kid
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The students will be assessed today using observation and class participation. I will read through their comments about the water cycle that they wrote about in their journals for a writing grade.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson Plan #2: Social Collaboration **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Lesson title**: What Causes Rain and Where does it Go?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Lesson Description:** This lesson will instruct students on how and where water comes from. The lesson will involve students posting on our class blog page and answering questions about where water comes from and where it goes? The students will also pose the question whether all water is considered fresh water. With the help of technology the students will be able to contact a meteorologist and water treatment specialist to help answer their questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Grade:** First Grade

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Subjects Addressed:** Science, Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading, Science, Writing, and Speaking and Listening Common Core Standards __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Common Core Standards Imitative, 2011 a,b,c) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RI.1.1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RI.1.6. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RI.1.10. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">W.1.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SL.1.4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">W.1.6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Action:** The lesson will start off with a quick review about the water cycle and the vocabulary that the students learned. Then I will pose the questions to the students, Where does rain come from? instead of writing in journals this lesson I have decided to allow students to write their answers on our class blog page. That way each student can see what the other students answers are and this will create a wonderful class discussion. After we have discussed the question, the students will watch a short video on Brainpop about where water comes from on the interactive board. Then we will discuss who we could ask in the real world who could answer these questions for us. I will then have the students choose who they would like to send an email to to help them answer the questions. A local meteorologist will skype with the kids and answer any questions that they have about the weather and how the water cycle works.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive board <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brainpop website <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Class blog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Email accounts <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Laptops <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">skype account
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson #3: Digital Storytelling **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Lesson Title:** The Water Cycle- A Digital Storytelling

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Lesson Description**: This lesson will include the students describing what the water cycle is and how it works. The students will gather pictures to use as examples to produce a movie describing what the water cycle is and how it works. They will have to describe the water cycle using words and pictures on a video to share with the class and to share on the internet such as Teacher Tube.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Grade Level:** First Grade

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Subjects Addressed:** Reading, Writing, Science, Speaking and Listening

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading, Writing, Science, Speaking and Listening Common Core Standards __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RI.1.1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RI.1.6. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RI.1.10. With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">W.1.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SL.1.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SL.1.3. Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SL.1.4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">W.1.6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(International Society for Technology in Education, 2008)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ISTE NETS-S **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">B. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">C. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and creative processes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">D. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity B. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">B. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">B. Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies and providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After we have discuss how the water cycle works and what causes it to work, I then challenge the students with the question "How could we make a video to share with other students that describes the water cycle." This started our class discussion. The students decided that our class needed to take pictures and use imovie to create a movie. For the first part of the lesson we began a concept map to visually show what we wanted our video to have in it and we used it to brainstorm for ideas. Then I grouped the students into groups of 4-5 and gave each group 1 digital camera to use. We then took a walk outside to take pictures of water, clouds, and other examples that could help describe the water cycle. The class then came in and each group gathered around their laptops and sketch on poster board the idea they wanted to use for their movie. I then had to walk them through how to upload their pictures to imovie. After their pictures were upload the students then had to decide if the wanted to use music in the background and how to upload that music. Then I wanted each member of the group to record their voice for at least one picture to describe what the picture is and how it represents the water cycle. After the videos were finished, I showed them how to share their videos to the web on teacher tube and to our blog page for anyone to watch. Then we created a dvd for each student of their video to keep and take home.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Digital cameras(1 per group) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">laptops <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">poster paper <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">imovie <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">DVD's ( one for each student)
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Assessment:** The students will be assessed on their participation and how well they describe the water cycle using pictures and speaking their parts.