Module 26: Pond Life and Life Cycles- Science 1B - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will understand how ponds are formed, observe ponds using their senses, and identify animals that live in ponds. The students will learn what makes animals amphibians or reptiles and compare and contrast frogs and toads, including the stages of their life cycles.

Module Materials:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Material(s)
1	Life in a Pond	crayons or colored pencils scissors glue pen or pencil
2	Life Cycles	crayons or colored pencils scissors glue pen or pencil

Module Objectives:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Objective(s)
1	Life in a Pond	Identify living things in a pond habitat. Use their senses to observe pond life. Illustrate a pond ecosystem to explain how organisms need each other to survive.
2	Life Cycles	Compare the life cycles of a frog and a turtle. Compare and contrast amphibians and reptiles.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
pond habitat living observe senses reptile amphibian frog turtle life cycle

Module Assignments:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Page #	Assignment Title
1	Life in a Pond	6	Life in a Pond Assignment
2	Life Cycles	6	Life Cycles Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

None

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title	Question
Life in a Pond	What is a pond habitat?
Life Cycles	What are amphibians and reptiles?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title	Video	Question
Life in a Pond	Observing a Pond	What is the first animal Olive and Kiara see at the pond? What do they learn when they research beavers? What can they hear at the pond? What does the pond smell like? What are some other animals the children observe? How are salamanders adapted to pond life?
Life Cycles	Frogs and Turtles	What do Kiara and Peter observe about turtles? What makes a turtle a reptile? What is the difference between the frogs and the tadpoles? What makes a frog an amphibian? How are reptiles and amphibians alike?

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

What is the main idea?
What are three things new you learned?
How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

#	Book	Author	Lexile Level
1	Life-Sized Animal Tracks	John Townsend
2	Whose Tracks Are These? A Clue Book of Familiar Forest Animals	James Nail

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

#	Outing
1	Take your student to a local park or nature preserve to observe freshwater ecosystems native to your region. Point out animals at different stages of their life cycles. Discuss how they will grow and change during the course of their lives. Compare adaptations of freshwater animals to those of marine animals.