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MI Plan #3

Kate Boesch, ED381
 

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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.  


Picture (221x174, 2.4Kb) Objectives and Procedures:
 
A. Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

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.
 
B. Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

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.
 
C. Spatial/Visual/Verbal and Interpersonal Intelligences.

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.
 
D. Musical/Rhythmic/Auditory Intelligences

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.
 
E. Bodily/Kinesthetic and Intrapersonal Intelligences

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.