YAKUTAT

INITIAL GOALS OF UNIT

- Project Based lesson

- Incorporate NGSS and Alaska State Standards

- Cultural Component

…Started brainstorming…

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WINNER IS…BIRDS

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Resident Songbirds or…

…Migratory Shorebirds?

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HOW DO YOU DESIGN A PROJECT BASED UNIT?!

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Project-Based Learning Model

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MODEL- 8 STEPS

• Ecosystem Description

• Visit Site and explore thoroughly- technical map

• After Site: research on components

• Final Product: Write-up or map integrating information

• Define the Problem• 2 Versions

• Research the Problem*• What do they know, need to know

• What resources do they need, how will information be gathered

• Stakeholder Description

• - Gaining different perspectives: interview at least 2 stakeholders

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PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MODEL- 8 STEPS

• Determine possible solutions

• Who has solved this before

• Develop a plan: identify, plan and reflect on project

• What are the resources and steps needed for implementation?

• Implement the plan: tracking progress through field notes

• Students continually monitor and communicate process to

peers/teachers/stakeholders

• Summarize, evaluate, reflect

• - Present the work to peers for evaluation

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GETTING TO KNOW OUR RESIDENT BIRDS

3rd & 4th Grade

- Year long life-science project

- Shorebird migration project next year….

- Tentative problem (version 1):

What are the types of resident birds that live on the train trail?

• Counts

• Identification

- Inquiry based Lessons that augmented research for project

- NGSS: 3-LS3-1, 3-LS4-2, 3-LS1-1

ASS: (4)SC2.2, (3)SC1.1, (3)SC2.1, (3)SC1.2

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School Yard Bird Feeders (4 days)

- Engagement: looking at birds

around the school

- Research life histories of common

resident birds

- Build their own feeders

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LESSONS

What is a Characteristic? (1 day)

• Engagement: Call students up

based on physical and behavioral

characteristics

• Group leaves on physical

characteristics

• Group pictures of Alaskan wildlife on

behavioral characteristics

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LESSONS

Are you me? (1 day)• Modified from Alaska’s Wetlands

and Wildlife curriculum

• Traits are inherited from parents

but variations exist in a group of

similar organisms

Heredity or not (1 day)• Adopted from AKSCI

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WHERE DO TRAITS COME FROM?

Traits of our Local Birds (1 day)

• Visiting the school bird feeder

• Physical and behavioral traits

How do you Hide? (1 day)

• Lesson modified from AKSCI

• Activity addresses how traits can

increase individual’s survival, mating

and reproduction

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WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT TRAITS?

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