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Area of Concentration: Botany Grade Level: 7th grade Aims: Students will increase their knowledge of the botanical world. Students will be able to apply scientific techniques to different areas of study. Goals: Students will able to identify and classify trees from their communities by using many different teaching strategies.
Objectives and Procedures:
Objective: Students will use their verbal skills to anthropomorphize, or give human characteristics to a tree. Procedure: Students will be
assigned to a specific tree, where they will be responsible for creating an identity for
that tree. Individually, they will give the tree personal traits and characteristics in a
short essay format. Objective: Students will count the rings on a tree in order to calculate the tree's approximate age. Procedure: In groups of two,
students will calculate the age of a tree by counting the number of rings that appears on
a tree stump. Objective: Students will describe to partners what a tree looks like. Procedure: Using partners, one
student will vividly describe the visual aspects of a specific tree to his/her partner,
while the other will visualize it in his/her mind. Upon verbal description, the student
will then draw the tree to see if their visualizations match the description of the other
student. Objective: Students will learn and memorize 20 different types of trees from a specific area. Procedure: Using rhyme, rhythm
or song, small groups of students will identify and name specific trees in any type of
format that they may wish to use. Objective: Students will feel and describe a tree. Procedure: Individually, students will choose a tree that is somehow appealing to them. He/she will touch and carefully examine that tree, and then in a journal describe what it feels like and explain what impression it leaves them with. |