Module 3: How Animals Act-Science 2 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will learn to identify and interpret animal tracks, compare observations about animal tracks, and describe and explain how animals use their senses. They will learn to identify different ways that animals communicate and draw conclusions about why animals communicate the way they do. Students will investigate a wild animal of their choice and describe how the animal is able to meet its needs in its particular environment.

Module Materials:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Material(s)
1	Tracks Animals Make	scissors glue
2	Animal Senses	pencil crayons
3	The Five Senses and Animal Communication	None
4	Project: Guess the Animal	sticky note;

Module Objectives:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Objective(s)
1	Tracks Animals Make	Identify and interpret animal tracks. Compare observations about animal tracks.
2	Animal Senses	Describe and explain how animals use their senses.
3	The Five Senses and Animal Communication	Identify different ways that animals communicate. Draw conclusions about why animals communicate the way they do.
4	Project: Guess the Animal	Investigate a wild animal of their choice. Describe how the animal is able to meet its needs in its particular environment.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
animal tracks diagonal walkers bounders gallopers pacers senses communication tracks communicate

Module Assignments:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Page #	Assignment Title
1	Tracks Animals Make	6	Animal Tracks Sorting Assignment
2	Animal Senses	6	Animal Senses Assignment
3	The Five Senses and Animal Communication	6	Drawing Conclusions about Animals Assignment
4	Project: Guess the Animal	2	Guess the Animal Project

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Notes
1	Tracks Animals Make	After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe the four categories used to describe animal tracks.
2	Animal Senses	After completing this lesson, discuss with your student how animals use their senses.
3	The Five Senses and Animal Communication	After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe what they learned about how animals use their senses to communicate.
4	Project: Guess the Animal	Before your student begins their project, be sure to review the rubric requirements with them and ask them to explain the requirements of the project.

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
Tracks Animals Make	What can you learn by investigating animal tracks?
Animal Senses	How are animal senses like human senses?
The Five Senses and Animal Communication	How do animals use their senses to communicate?
Project: Guess the Animal	How do animals survive in their environment?

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
Tracks Animals Make	Sari and Mikell's Nature Walk	What patterns did Sari and Mikell discover in the animal tracks they found?
Animal Senses	A Day at the Zoo	How did animals use their senses at the zoo?
The Five Senses and Animal Communication	Animals Communicate Too	What did Jing Lei learn about how animals communicate?

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	Whose Tracks Are These? A Clue Book of Familiar Forest Animals	James Nail
2	Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints	Millicent E Selsam	AD490L
3	Thump Goes the Rabbit: How Animals Communicate	Fran Hodgkins

Module Outing:

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

#	Outing
1	Find a local nature trail and have your student look for animal tracks. See how many they can identify.