On The Ocean Floor

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On The Ocean Floor

• By Nicole Edwards
• Gabrielle Burno

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Summary of Unit

• This unit was designed to introduce students (age
  4) to the different animals, plants, and
  environmental cues that may be found in an ocean
  through various interactive classroom activities.

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Essential Questions

• What is an ocean?
• What animals can be found in the ocean?
• What can we do to protect our oceans?
• If you could be any ocean animal what would you
  be? Why?

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Objectives

• The children will paritcipate ina group
  game.answer question the question provided on the
  activity worksheet and draw an illustration of
  what was said.
• The children will create an ocean scene in a box.
• The children will complete a literacy Worksheet
  based on the ocean theme.

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DCPS Integrated Standards

• Reading
• Engage in oral exchanges about a topic with peers
  and adults
• Initiate and/or extend conversations with peers
  and adults using multiple exchanges
• Demonstrate understanding explanations
• Listen to story attentively
• Ask questions to get information, ask for help,
  clarify something that is not understood.
• Answer questions with increasing complexity
• Follow directions of two or more steps
• Retail story events in a sequence
• Use words to describe concrete objects, actions,
  and feelings
• Integrate new vocabulary into conversations with
  peers and adults

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Integrated DCPS Standards

• Reading (contd.)
• Ask questions to acquire a new vocabulary
• Treat books with care
• Understand concepts of title, author, and
  illustrator
• Use pictures as clues to the text. Understand the
  concept of the term The End.
• Identify words that rhyme in the story
• Identify 10 or more letters
• Name letters in familiar words
• Begin to make sound letter connections
• Use books to find information

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DCPS Integrated Standards

• Mathematics

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Create OceanBook
Concept Map
Ocean Cups Sensory Table
Goldfish activity

• Reading

Science
Math
Read Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue
Sea
Ocean animals number mobile
Cut paste ocean animals
Ocean scene in a box
Dive under the sea game

• Art

Starfish necklaces
Social
Literacy
Open-ended art
Lacing Stuffing Fish
Group Discussion and Activity (If you Could be
any ocean animal what would you be? Why?)
Worksheet (Matching beginning sounds of words to
the correct ocean animal)
Create an Ocean book

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