Aim: to be able to understand how wild animals such as wolves become extinct.
Rationale: Students should understand that as our US human population is expanding and growing, wild animals such as wolves have less room for their homes. These wild animals have less space to find food and are being killed to make room for our expanding human population.
Audience: Ages 7 - 11 year old Chicago public school African American Cognitively Delayed or Severely Learning Disabled Inner City boys and girls.
Instructional Plan:
Students will look at web pictures of wolves. Teacher will ask questions based on these web wolf pictures. Teacher will then ask questions verbally. She will read from websites about wolves. Students will verbally answer questions.
Materials:
Web pages
Wolves of he World
Wolf Country
- information site about Wolves
Guardians of the Wolf - Save
the Wolf Alerts
Wolf,
Wolves, The Mexican Wolf Story
Worksheet with vocabulary words listed:: habitat, prey, interbreeds, hybridization, burrows, breeding, adjoining, gestation, captive breeding, reintroduction,extinction, extermination,den..
Assessment and Evaluation
1. Each student will be able to visually find by matching at least 5 of the above l3 vocabulary words on individual wolf information stories from internet as teacher reads story orally.
2. Each student will draw an individual picture of a wolf in the wilderness - either with its mate, family, or by itself.
3. Each student will name his/her wolf.
4. After matching above vocabulary words as teacher reads internet, students will volunteer to orally answer (based on the context of teaching text reading) what he/she thinks the vocabulary word means. Each student will orally present critical attributes of at least 2 vocabulary words.
Lesson:
Teacher gives out worksheet of vocabulary words and reads them with students. Teacher tells students that she will read to them from the internet. She tells students to raise their hands each time they identify a word a word from the vocabulary worksheet in the reading context teacher is verbally reading about wolves. After the word is visually identified (matched from the vocabulary sheet to the internet page being read by teacher), students verbally will say what the word appears to mean from the context teacher reads.
Each student is then asked to tell his classmates what he has learned from the reading of the wolf texts. Each student will draw a picture of a wolf, alone or with his wolf family,his mate, in his den or in the wilderness. Each student will write his name on his picture.Each student will then name his/her wolf. Teacher will type each student's wolf 's name on the computer. Each student will then copy this name on the computer and then write the name on his/her wolf picture.
ACTIVITY PAGE Wolves-Vocabulary List.html
INTRODUCTION Introductionwolves.html