Project WILD Activities for GradesK – 4

Correlated to Math, Science, and Language Arts GLEs

Grade / Activity Title / Page # / Description / Grade Level
Expectations
K – 4 / Color Crazy (2) / 2 / Students create colorful representations of wild animals. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
K – 4 / Grasshopper Gravity (4) / 4 / Students observe, handle, and describe live grasshoppers or crickets.Inquiry: Students attempt to answer various questions about grasshoppers. / SCI GLE 0307.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0307.5.1
K – 4 / Classroom Carrying Capacity (9) / 9 / Students sit unusually close to each other and describe the results. / SCI GLE 0307.7.4
K - 4 / Graphananimal (49) / 49 / Inquiry:Students create picture collections of animals in two different habitats, and then "visit" the habitats by going on an indoor nature walk where they tally the number of animals seen. Math: Students graph and compare their results. / SCI GLE 0307.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0307.5.1
MATH GLE 0306.5.1
K - 4 / Wildlife is Everywhere! (51) / 51 / Inquiry:Students search their surroundings for evidence of wildlife. / SCI GLE 0307.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0307.2.1
K – 4 / What's That, Habitat?
(56) / 56 / Students draw pictures of human and animal homes, comparing basic needs.Language Arts: Students make drawings to learn the words used for the components of “habitat” and write simple sentences to describe what a habitat is. / SCI GLE 0307.2.2
LA GLE 0301.3.1
K – 4 / Everybody Needs a Home (59) / 59 / Students draw a floor plan of their house and compare their needs with those of other animals. Language Arts: Students compare the way houses meet their needs to how animals’ habitats meet their needs. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
LA GLE 0301.5.2
3 – 4 / Habitrekking (79) / 79 / Students conclude that humans and wildlife share the same environment,have similar basic needs, and face the same environmental issues.Inquiry:Students go outside to conduct an investigation requiring observation, interpretation, and data-gathering skill. Language Arts:Students prepare and present their inquiry findings. (Note: Do the activity What’s That Habitat? first.) / SCI GLE 0307.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0307.2.2
SCI GLE 0307.5.1
LA GLE 0301.2.2
LA GLE 0301.7.2
K – 4 / Thicket Game (114) / 114 / Students become "predator" and "prey" in a version of "hide and seek". / SCI GLE 0307.3.1
K – 4 / Seeing is Believing (116) / 116 / Students use kaleidoscopes, binoculars or telescopes, and fisheye mirrors to imagine what animals might have such vision. Students then make posters showing these animals. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
K – 4 / What Bear Goes Where? (118) / 118 / Language Arts:Based on information on black bears, polar bears, and grizzly bears, students construct posters of the three different bear habitats, showing major habitat components and identifying bear adaptations. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
LA GLE 0301.7.2
K – 4 / Surprise Terrarium (120) / 120 / Students observe a live animal that uses camouflage techniques to identify camouflage as an adaptation for survival. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
5 – 8 / Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (154) / 154 / Students become familiar with classification of animals.Language Arts: Students conduct research and make a master list of threatened and endangered animals locally and/or nationally, including factors affecting the animals’ condition. / Taught at Grade 3 in TN:
SCI GLE 0307.5.2
LA GLE 0301.4.2
K – 4 / First Impressions (178) / 178 / Students respond to a variety of images and then consider contributions of a range of “scary” animals. Language Arts Grades 3 and 4: Students research and report orally on the environmental contributions of “scary” animals. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
LA GLE 0301.2.2
LA GLE 0301.4.2
LA GLE 0301.6.1
LA GLE 0301.7.2
K - 4 / And the Wolf Wore Shoes (180) / 180 / Language Arts: Students divide books into those about real and those about imaginary animals and then distinguish between real and fictitious animal characteristics. / SCI GLE 0307.5.1
LA GLE 0301.8.2
K – 4 / Make a Coat! (243) / 243 / Students make replicas of coats using different materials and representing varying historical periods. / Social Studies Grade 3
K – 4 / Learning to Look, Looking to See (278) / 278 / Students develop observation skills and apply them to an unfamiliar outdoor setting. Students write what they remember seeing in a familiar setting, then check their accuracy and discuss the results. Inquiry: Students develop observation skills needed in other inquiry-based activities. / SCI GLE 0007.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0007.2.2
SCI GLE 0107.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0107.7.1
SCI GLE 0207.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0207.5.1
SCI GLE 0307.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0307.5.1
SCI GLE 0407.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0407.5.1
K - 4 / Animal Charades (280) / 280 / Language Arts:Students use charades to distinguish between wild and domesticated animals. / SCI GLE 0007.5.1
LA GLE 0001.2.1
K – 4 / Too Close for Comfort (300) / 300 / Inquiry: Students experiment with physical distance and levels of comfort in humans, estimate appropriate distances between humans and wildlife under various conditions. Language Arts: Students hypothesize about indicators of animal discomfort and summarize reasons to avoid animal discomfort through crowding. / SCI GLE 0307.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0307.5.2
SCI GLE 0307.7.4
SCI GLE 0407.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0407.2.1
K – 4 / Ethi-Thinking (303) / 303 / Students list outdoor activities that might be harmful to wild plants and animals. Language Arts: Students use photos or drawings to picture, discuss, interpret, and evaluate outdoor activities that might be harmful to wild plants and animals. / SCI GLE 0307.7.4
LA GLE 0301.2.2
SCI GLE 0407.2.1
LA GLE 0401.2.1
K – 4 / Playing Lightly on the Earth (432) / 432 / Students look for evidence of games that harm the environment and then invent and play games with a benign effect on the environment. / Social Studies Grades K, 1, and 3

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