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How to Use the
Oceans - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Oceans - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:What Are the Oceans?: Reading Informational Text
The Ocean & Us: Reading Informational Text G
Oceans Around the World: Data Analysis & Map Activity
Ocean & Atmosphere: Applying Concepts GO6
Tides: Comparison of Sources
Close to Shore: Comparison of Sources
The Pelagic Zone: Reading Informational Text GO2
Ocean Floor Formations: Applying Concepts G
Ocean Plants: Reading Informational Text
Plants: Ocean and Land: Comparison of Primary Sources
Ocean Animals: Reading Informational Text G
Life Near the Vents: Primary Source Analysis
Jacques Cousteau: Ocean Explorer: Comparison of Sources G
Pollution Problems: Cause & Effect G
Pollution Solutions: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Ocean Poetry: Comparison of Primary Sources
Ocean Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download
HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)