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Home : 2007 : Apr : 10
I have never taught 2nd grade, so I'm starting from scratch with lessons and the 30 minutes is really throwing me off. The only solid idea I have so far is a prediction lesson. 1. Start with a mystery bag. The students guess what is in it and I write their guesses on the board. Then I say "Oh, I forgot to mention that there was a note and footprints." I then read the note which has clues about what's in it (birdseed). The student predict and we talk about the difference. 2. Read a good prediction book (but one that is uncommon so no one has read it), and we gather clues throughout and predict. I'd have feet on the board and a trail that we write clues and new predictions in. 3. I stop 3/4 of the way through and students get a storyboard with a box with a picture/idea from the beginning and one from the middle. The last box is empty. They have to draw/write their prediction in. 4. Then I finish the book. This could be fun, but I'm not sure I have something extremely concrete to assess. Do any of you have any ideas for lessons? I'd like to do a read-aloud with key learnings, and then have students do a quick, hands-on 10-minute activity that shows what they learned. They study: consumption vs. production, communities (urban, rural, suburban), life cycle of plants and animals, animal habitats... Thanks so much for any feedback you have!
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