Transcript Student Packet

“Grab Your Survival Kit”
Concept: Survival
Being There Location(s): District Court, School, Soup Kitchen
Political/Social Action Project: “Outdoor Educational Garden”
Classroom Environment
Body-Brain Partnership
Living Organisms and their Environments
Government
Organizing Concept: Survival is
the natural process of living or
continuing to live longer than
another person, animal or
thing.
“Finishing Strong”
“Charting Our Course”
Concept: Change
Being There Location(s): Historic District, Astronomy Center
Political/Social Action Project: “The Heat is On!”
New World Settlement
Westward Expansion
Earth and Space
Rationale: When we understand
and can identify the elements
needed to survive, we may be
able to problem-solve daily
challenges and struggles in our
lives.
“Prepared for Anything!”
Concept: Power
Being There Location(s): Fort Sumter, The Battery
Political/Social Action Project: “Adopt Your Watershed”
Concept: Cause and Effect
Being There Location(s): Power Plant, Waterway
Political/Social Action Project: Habitat for Humanity
Current Conflicts
Revolutionary War
Civil War
Environmental and Social Conflict
Electricity and Magnetism
Light and Sound
Transportation
Alisa Braddy Susan Kovalik & Associates © 2009
OUR DAILY AFFIRMATION
Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow is mystery,
Today is a gift,
That's why we call it the present.
I am braver than I believe,
I am stronger than I seem.
I am smarter than I think.
Everything I do matters.
I am heard, understood, and acknowledged.
HUA!
Resourcefulness
Patience
Organization
Perseverance
Initiative
Sense of Humor
Pride
Friendship
Caring
Flexibility
Effort
Responsibility
Integrity
Problem Solving
Curiosity
Common Sense
Cooperation
Courage
LIFESKILLS
Personal Best
Trustworthiness
No Put Downs
Truthfulness
Active Listening
Lifelong Guidelines
Conceptual Key Point for the Component:
Survival is the natural process of living or continuing to live longer
than another person, animal, or thing. Living things have physical
characteristics that allow them to survive. They use these
characteristics to meet their basic needs for food, water, air,
protection, shelter, and reproduction. When we understand and
can identify the elements needed to survive, we may be able to
problem-solve daily challenges and struggles in our lives.
Significant Knowledge Key Point #1:
All living things are made up of cells, tiny units of living material. The structure of plant
and animal cells differ, yet their jobs are similar, such as taking in food, releasing
energy, and getting rid of waste. An animal cell is filled with a gelatin-like substance
called cytoplasm and held together by a thin, outer cover called a cell membrane. The
nucleus controls everything that happens inside the cell. In addition to these cell parts,
plant cells have a tough, rigid cell wall made of a substance called cellulose,
chloroplasts for the making of food, and vacuoles for storage. Cells are the building
blocks of life and are essential for survival.
Significant Knowledge Key Point #2:
The process by which plants make food is called photosynthesis. Plants convert energy
from the sun (light) as fuel for this process. The energy from the sun is used by
chlorophyll, a special part of the green leaf that can make food for the plant. Plants take
in carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water and minerals from the soil to
make food. Plants give off oxygen, which humans and animals need to breathe while
animals and humans take in the oxygen and give off carbon dioxide that plants use. This
process is essential to the survival of both plants, humans and animals.
Significant Knowledge Key Point #3:
A food chain is a chain of energy that begins with the sun. Each member of the chain gets energy
from the food it eats. When one living thing eats another, a link is formed in the food chain. The
first links in the food chain are the producers. For example, all plants are producers. The next
links in the food chain are primary consumers, plant-eating animals. Following the primary
consumers are the secondary consumers, animals that eat the animals that eat plants. The final
links in the food chain are the decomposers, tiny organisms that break down the bodies of dead
plants and animals. Members of a food chain depend upon the lower members for survival. If
anything disrupts the habitat where the food chain exists like pollution or construction, the chain is
broken and all members along the chain may not survive.
Significant Knowledge Key Point #4:
Plants are essential to the balance of nature and to the survival of people and animals. Besides
oxygen and food (e.g., grains, fruits, and vegetables), plant products vital to humans include wood
and wood products, fibers, drugs, oils, and paint products. Coal and petroleum are fossil substances
of plant origin. Thus plants provide us not only sustenance but shelter, clothing, medicines, fuels,
and the raw materials from which innumerable other products are made. It is our duty as
responsible citizens to make choices that will preserve and sustain the quality of life and natural
resources in our environment, in order to ensure the survival of the living things within ecosystems
and maintain the balance of nature.
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Conceptual Key Point:
Survival is the natural process of living or
continuing to live longer than another person,
animal, or thing. Living things have physical
characteristics that allow them to survive. They
use these characteristics to meet their basic
needs for food, water, air, protection, shelter,
and reproduction. When we understand and
can identify the elements needed to survive,
we may be able to problem-solve daily
challenges and struggles in our lives.
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Sketch examples of places in which you see
plants surviving in the environment:
Station #1:
Sketch:
Sketch:
Explanation:
Explanation:
Station #3:
Sketch:
Explanation:
Station #2:
Survival is the natural process of living or
continuing to live longer than another
person, animal, or thing. Living things have
physical characteristics that allow them to
survive. They use these characteristics to
meet their basic needs for food, water, air,
protection, shelter, and reproduction. When
we understand and can identify the
elements needed to survive, we may be
able to problem-solve daily challenges and
struggles in our lives. Sketch:
Explanation:
Station #4:
Chorus
Now cells are really small, yeah, they're hard to see
But look on down through a microscope there they'll be
And you and I are made of cells and so are birds and bees
Just like apples and bananas and the leaves on the trees
Chorus
Now plant cells are unique, they're really something to see
Yeah they've got a CELL WALL to make 'em stronger, you see
They've got CHLOROPHYLL and CHLOROPLASTS on their list
And they make their own food by PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Chorus
Well CYTOPLASM is that jelly-like goo
That oozes round inside a cell, yeah, it's in you too!
But if there wasn't something there called the
CELL MEMBRANE
There'd be cytoplasm everywhere, we'd really complain!
Chorus
Now you and I've got a brain, it helps us do what we do
It helps with walkin' and talkin' and eatin' our food
And cells need one too, to keep 'em stayin' alive
It's called a NUCLEUS and floats around inside
Chorus:
You can tell
You can tell it's a cell
Yeah, you can tell
You can tell it's a cell
You can tell it's a cell by the way it looks
When it's under a microscope or in a book
It may be an animal or a plant it's true
But I know it's a cell, cause I see all the clues
IT’S A CELL!
“Nature’s
Food
Chain”
(Sung to the tune of “The Farmer in the Dell”)
Nature’s food chain
Nature’s food chain
Living things get energy
Through nature’s food chain!
Plants need the sun
Plants need the sun
Living things get energy
Through nature’s food chain!
A mouse eats the plants
A mouse eats the plants
Living things get energy
Through nature’s food chain!
The coyote eats the mouse
The coyote eats the mouse
Living things get energy
Through nature’s food chain!
Texas Tech University, Natural Science Research Laboratory)
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PLANT YOUR THOUGHTS!
1. What did you “dig” most about today?
2. If you could change one thing about today, what would
you leave out?
3. What learning stemmed from today?
PLANT YOUR THOUGHTS!
1. What did you “dig” most about today?
2. If you could change one thing about today, what would
you leave out?
3. What learning stemmed from today?
PLANT YOUR THOUGHTS!
1. What did you “dig” most about today?
2. If you could change one thing about today, what would
you leave out?
3. What learning stemmed from today?
PLANT YOUR THOUGHTS!
1. What did you “dig” most about today?
2. If you could change one thing about today, what would
you leave out?
3. What learning stemmed from today?