1st Grade  / 2nd Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Continuity and Change

Organizing Idea: Cycles

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Unit Contents

Students learn about the concept of continuity and change by exploring patterns, routes, and cycles. Students will learn about cycles of all kinds; cycles of time, cycles in nature, and cycles of the past and present. During this Organizing Idea, students will discover that a cycle is a series of events that repeats over and over again. The students will understand that the continuity of cycles in their environment will allow them to predict and to plan events. During the culminating unit, students will apply their knowledge of cycles past and present to cycles in the future.

Activities

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Sequencing Cards - Mailbox Magazine Aug/Sep 2004
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The Library Cycle - by Brenda McElyea
Students will identify the various parts of the library cycle.

Giraffe and a Half by Shel Silverstein - Susan Jackson
Students will identify the patterns and cycle they hear as the book is read to them.

Readers Theater for Shoe Town - by Susan Jackson
Students will listen to the story of Shoe Town, and then participate in a reader's theater of the story by either taking a reading part or being part of the audience. Students will also learn that these stories have patterns.
Script for Shoe Town Lesson - by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

What is the life cycle of a pumpkin and what kind of book would I use to learn about it? - by Denel Adkins
Students will learn the life cycle of a pumpkin. The will learn the difference between fiction and nonfiction books and that life cycles would be in nonfiction books. They will know the call number of a nonfiction book has numbers as well as letters on it.

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