Introduction
| Hello Researcher! What do you remember about a butterflies’ life cycle? What about a frog’s? We have talked about different animals and their life cycles. We have learned many big words like caterpillar, larva, pupa, tadpole and metamorphosis. Now it is up to you to use this new information and discover another animal’s life cycle and its habitat. You have already chosen your animal to research, so let’s get started. |
Click the link below to hear The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HI7q38VmQ&list=PLyUfG0DAgSGiucbX5bzL7pM9vGUOGSPL6
Task
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Your job as a researcher is to find out all the stages of your animal’s life cycle and habitat then create a slideshow using Google Slides. You will use websites like Amazing Animals, BrainPop, The Circle of Life and others. You will use the information you find to complete a rough draft of your slide show using the Animal Life Cycle Research Project Sheet. You will then create each slide putting in the words. Once all your words are in all the slides you may add pictures. Finally you may change the background and text colors as well the fonts. You are going to learn a lot and have fun!
Process
Step 1: Pick an animal
Step 2: Put on your thinking cap and begin research.
Step 3: Use the following websites to complete the Animal Research Project Sheet.
Amazing Animals
Step 4: Revise and edit your information on your sheet. Make sure that you spelled everything correct and have complete sentences.
Step 5: Create your slide show using Google Slides.
Step 6: Type in your words first. Use the information on your sheet. Make sure you spell everything correct and have complete sentences.
Step 7:Now you can add 2 pictures that make sense for each slide. Insert clip art or copy and paste images from the websites we used previously.
Step 8: You may change the font and colors. Keep your fonts so you and I can read them as well as the colors.
Evaluation
| Beginning 1 | Developing 2 | Very Good 3 | Exemplary 4 | Score | |
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| Completed all 5 required slides | Only have 1 or 2 slides or missing information on each slide. | Only have 3 or 4 slides. Missing information on slides. | All 5 slides are complete. | All 5 slides are complete and a 6th slide with a poem from the animal's point of view. | %25 |
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| Writing Conventions | misspelled multiple words and use incomplete sentences. | misspelled only a few words and most sentences are complete. | All words are spelled correct and all sentences are complete. | Everything is correct and poem has good form. | %25 |
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| Pictures | 1 or less per slide or irrelevant to topic. | Some slides do not have all pictures. | Each slide has 2 relevant pictures. | Each slide has 2 or more relevant pictures. | %25 |
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| Font/Color change | Unchanged font and/or color. | Font and/or color are difficult to read. | Appropriate font and color scheme, easily read. | Each slide has its own scheme that is relevant to the topic of the slide. | %25 |
Conclusion
Now you are an expert on your animal. You have discovered everything there is to know about how it grows. Is there anything else you want to know about your animal? How is your animal's life cycle similar or different from some of the other ones we have learned about?
I hope you have enjoyed discovering the world of research and information about animals. You can use these same skills to research anything you want to learn about!