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= = LESSON PLAN created by: Saratoga Shores First Grade teachers

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Standard 4: Students will gain an understanding of Life Science through the study of changes in organisms over time and the nature of living things. Objective 2: Living things change and depend upon their environment to satisfy their basic needs.

__Student learning objective__:
Make observations about living things and their environment using the five senses.

__Materials needed__:
Clipboards Pens or pencils

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
Review the 5 senses. Review the difference between living and non-living things. (Make sure students remember that plants are living things.) Explain that we will be going outside and that students (in groups of 2 or 3) will find a living thing to observe using their 5 senses. Explain the kinds of living things you might have to choose from outside and the kinds of observations you might make. Discuss with the class that for some living things, you may not be able to observe something with all of your senses. For example, you may not want to taste something, or it may not have an observable smell or sound.

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
Observe a living thing together as a class. (You could go outside and find something together or you can have something ready for the class to look at inside the room before you go out.) Practice filling out the recording sheet together as a class.

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
Take the class outside and let partners/groups find a living thing to observe. Students will write the name of the thing they chose at the top of their recording paper and then record their observations. Instruct students that if they want to taste their object, they need to ask first.

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
Let each partnership/group share their recording sheet with the class. See if students met these criteria: Did they choose a living thing? Did they fill out the sections accurately? Did they observe using their senses? Did they use as many senses as possible for their object?