UNIT X 242 | UNIT 7 Connect to the Theme • Activate prior knowledge Say: Our Earth. Ask: What do you think of when you hear the word Earth? Cue students by pointing out the children in the picture, where they are, and what they are doing. • Use a semantic organizer Write the heading Our Earth in the middle of a web diagram on the board. Ask: What things make up our Earth? Elicit ideas and write them in circles around Our Earth. Connect to THE THEME Play the Connect to the Theme video. Ask students to describe what they see. This will help you assess what vocabulary terms students already know. Theme-related Vocabulary Use pictures to identify theme Direct students’ attention to the photo. Ask: What do you see? Guide students toward observing and calling out the following words: children, land, nature, birds, water, rocks, grass, stick, net, sunhat. Ask students to talk about where the children are and what they are doing. Connect to the BIG Idea Develop prior knowledge Write environment on the board. Explain that environment is the natural world, including the land, water, air, plants, and animals. Say: People and animals depend on their environment. Depend on means need. What do we depend on our environment for? Elicit ideas and write them on the board. Assess Language Levels Related to the Theme Answer questions Hold up the book and do a picture walk of Unit 7. For example, point to the pictures on page 244. Ask: What animal do you see at the top of the page? Where does it live? What do you see in its environment? What animal do you see at the bottom of the page? Where does it live? What do you see in its environment? DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold As you introduce the concept of how living things depend on the environment, provide comprehensible input for new vocabulary. Display the phrase things we depend on in our environment in a mind map. Write water in a bubble around it and encourage students to add other ideas in bubbles as they think of them, such as air and plants. Amplify Have students say more about things that they depend on in their environment. Have them discuss why they depend on each thing and what happens if they don’t have it. For example, say: People and animals depend on clean water. They need it in order to have healthy lives. If they don’t have clean water, they will get sick or die. Our Earth BIG Idea People and animals depend on their environment. UNIT 7 Unit 7 242 UNIT 7
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