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Children will study how beavers build a lodge.
Vocabulary: lodge, teamwork, vegetation
Science Focus: animal builders
Watch a Video:
Animals Can Build It!
Read the Issue:
Beavers Built It!
Review Words to Know:
lodge, teamwork, vegetation
Play a Game:
Pond Search and Find
Skill: vocabulary
Complete Skill Sheets
Show What You Know
Skill: comprehension
A Beaver’s Body
Skill: diagrams
Lesson Boosters
Paired Text: Little Beaver and the Echo by Amy MacDonald
Class Brainstorm:
If I Were a Beaver
Scavenger Hunt: Pages 2-3
Hands-on Activity:
Build a Beaver Lodge
CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RI.K.1 key details, RI.K.4 vocabulary, RL.K.1 key details (literature), RI.K.7 use visuals, W.K.8 writing
Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.
1. Find the picture where the beaver is swimming with a stick. Put a ✓on it.
2. Find the heading. Underline it.
3. In the orange box, find the word that means "plants." Circle it.
4. Look at the yellow box. What is the beaver carrying? Label it.
Skill: engineering design
Materials: found sticks and twigs, brown modeling clay