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2nd Grade  Project 2 weeks

Fossil Detectives: Unearthing Earth’s Amazing Story

Mayra W
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7
K-2.AF.8.1
K-2.AF.8.3
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7
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Purpose

You will explore fossils. Fossils are old remains in rock. You will ask, how do fossils form? Tell fossil stories. Say what they teach. Use pictures, headings, and glossaries for science clues. Join shared research about fossil patterns and Earth's changes. Create and share your own fossil guide.

Learning goals

I can explain how fossils form. Fossils are old remains. I can use facts and patterns. I can use headings and pictures. I can find fossil facts. I can use pictures and words. I can recount stories. I can name a story’s central lesson. I can research fossils. I can write with others.

Standards
  • [Common Core] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.2 - Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
  • [Common Core] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7 - Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
  • [Next Generation Science Standards] K-2.AF.8.1 - Read grade-appropriate texts and/or use media to obtain scientific and/or technical information to determine patterns in and/or evidence about the natural and designed world(s).
  • [Next Generation Science Standards] K-2.AF.8.3 - Obtain information using various texts, text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons), and other media that will be useful in answering a scientific question and/or supporting a scientific claim.
  • [Common Core] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7 - Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Competencies
  • Effective Communication - Students practice listening to understand, communicating with empathy, and share their learning through exhibiting, presenting and reflecting on their work.
  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Students consider a variety of innovative approaches to address and understand complex questions that are authentic and important to their communities.
  • Content Expertise - Students develop key competencies, skills, and dispositions with ample opportunities to apply knowledge and engage in work that matters to them.
  • Self Directed Learning - Students use teacher and peer feedback and self-reflection to monitor and direct their own learning while building self knowledge both in and out of the classroom.
  • Collaboration - Students co-design projects with peers, exercise shared-decision making, strengthen relational agency, resolve conflict, and assume leadership roles.

Products

Make a fossil notebook with headings, pictures, books, and media. Record patterns. These patterns help answer, “How will fossils form?” Retell Mary Anning’s story. Say the main idea. Create a fossil model. A fossil is a rock print. Explain Earth’s past. Share your work. Get feedback. Revise it. Reflect.

Launch

Listen to Stone Girl, Bone Girl and study the pictures. Tell Mary Anning’s challenge and response. Look at fossil models like a paleontologist. Fossils are old remains or marks from living things. Draw your answer: How will fossils form? Share your idea with a partner.

Exhibition

Create a fossil museum for, “How will fossils form?” Fossils are old remains in rock. Show your model and research card. Add headings and pictures. Retell Stone Girl, Bone Girl. Share its lesson. Explain Mary's choices. Tell how fossils show Earth's changes. Invite families and classmates. Answer questions. Reflect.