 Adirondack
Curriculum
Project - www.adkcurriculum.org
NYS Content Area Standard
ELA
Standard 1-
Student will read,
write, listen
and speak for information and understanding.
Level: Elementary:
Key indicator: Present a short oral
presentation
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Title: Nature Trail Coloring Book
Grade Level: 3rd Grade
Author: Sarah Bencze, Tupper Lake CSD
Email: sarahb@tupperlakecsd.net |
Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
_X_ Natural History
___ Human History
___ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
___ Economy
___ Health, Recreation &
Life Skills |
Investigative Question or Issue: What is interesting
to see or hear in the natural
environment around our school?
Challenge:
Context of this Challenge:
Your class of students has received the following letter that is
written on birch bark and addressed to them:
Dear Mrs. Bencze,
While out on a nature trail walk, our class found this interesting
piece of birch bark. This led to a discussion of our school's nature
trail.
We would like your students to create a coloring book for us that
identifies
a minimum of two unique features of the environment that can be seen at
each station on the nature trail. Each
illustration will need to be in an outline form that can be colored in
and should include a caption that complements your illustration.
Inviting
your parents in to help you out in your groups would be very
beneficial.
Upon completion of your book, we would like you to take us on a
informative tour
of the nature trail and verbally explain each station to us. You should
plan on spending no more than five minutes explaining your station and
answering questions the students may have.
We appreciate your efforts in completing this task for us.
Sincerely,
Your kindergarten buddy readers
The Challenge: In
groups assigned by your
teacher, answer the letter's request by creating a coloring book and
giving
a tour of the nature trail.
In class, we will discuss how much time you will have to complete this
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Quality Standards:
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Coloring book has an outline drawing for each
station of the nature trail
- Outline drawings for each station depict at least two unique features
of the environment that can be seen from that station
- Each outline drawing is accompanied by a caption that helps the
viewer understand the drawing
- Tour of the nature trail stations is informative;
each station explained
- Tour is conducted so that the description and
questions/answers for the stations takes no more than five minutes at
each station
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Adapted for the Adirondack
Curriculum Project from
the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC
©ACP 2002
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