Language Arts Component

Writing Standard 8: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. Lesson Plan Idea: Students complete small workbooks with space to draw pictures and describe qualities of various soils and rocks. Relationship: This lesson plan has a Science component for investigating properties and characteristics of varying soils and rocks.

Group Members:
Staci Cobabe, Kenzie Kemp, Brandon Lukens

Fine Arts Component

Lesson Plan Idea: Students draw or paint a picture of a plant or tree, soil, rocks, sky, clouds, and rain. Each student shows their classmates their picture and explain how the components relate to each other. Answer questions from peers about their work. Relationship: This lesson plan relates to the Language Arts Speaking and Listening Standard 2: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

1st Grade Science Component

Standard 2: Earth and Space Science. Students will gain an understanding of Earth and Space Science through the study of earth materials, celestial movement, and weather. Objective 1: Investigate the natural world including rock, soil and water. Lesson Plan Idea: Gather evidence about the uses of rocks, soil, and water. Where do we see them? What do they do? How do we use them? Why are they important? Scavenger hunt for various items. Relationship: Students can use new vocabulary learned as spelling words in Language Arts.

Technology Component
Lesson Plan Idea: Students will play the iPad app called The Rock Cycle- The Rock Cycle is an interactive story about the life of a rock. Weathered and aged, he tells his life story in this elegant poem. Each stanza is supplemented with interactive images, diagrams, and mini-games. Relationship: Language Arts Standard 7 Objective 3. The students need to be able to pull out the factual information and talk about how the rock cycle begins, what happens in the middle, and in the end.

Math Component
Domain-Measurement and Data: Students will develop an understanding of their environment. Represent and Interpret Data: Objective 4: Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will observe and record the weather and the temperature each day for 1 month, then they will graph the results in a bar graph by types of weather, and on a line graph for temperature. Relationship: Science Standard 1 Objective 2. The students would be required to answer some questions about weather after collecting the data. The questions would be them drawing conclusions from their information that they gathered.

Social Studies Component

Standard 2-Citizenship: Students will recognize their roles and responsibilities in the school and in the neighborhood. Objective 1: Describe and demonstrate appropriate social skills necessary for working in a group. Lesson Plan Idea: Students work in small groups naming a variety of natural sources of water, and brainstorm ways they can help conserve water at home. Relationship: This can connect to Math by having students graph an estimate of how much of Earths water comes from which natural source.

Physical Education Component

Standard 3: Students will develop an understanding of their environment. Objective 1: Investigate plants and plant growth. Lesson Plan Idea: Look at seeds in varying stages of growth, then try to identify plants around the school that are in each stage. (Gross Motor: walking, kneeling.) Each student will draw 1 plant in 3 stages: seed, sprout, and fully grown (Fine Motor: drawing, pencil grip) Relationship: Underlined drawing portion connects to Fine Arts creating a work of art using various mediums.

Language Arts Component

Reading-Informational Text Standard 4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area. Lesson Plan Idea: Students complete worksheets matching genetic trait vocabulary words with their definition and pictorial representation if applicable. Relationship: The words used in this component are the words learned in the Science component.

5th Grade Science Component

Standard 5: Students will understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment. Objective 1: Using supporting evidence, show that traits are transferred from a parent organism to its offspring. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will contrast inherited traits with traits and behaviors that are not inherited but may be learned or induced by environmental factors. (i.e. blue eyes vs. handedness or talent.) Do a basic Punnett square for eye color and have each student do their own based on their parents traits. Relationship: The Punnett square can be used to determine traits of the students animal in the Technology component.

Fine Arts Component

Standard 4-Contextualizing: The student will interpret and apply visual arts in relation to cultures, history, and all learning. Objective 3: Recognize the connection of visual arts to all learning. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will describe how science has employed and benefited from the use of artists; i.e. observing and recording anatomy in the Renaissance. Students will create their own work of art depicting the varieties possible when transmitting a specific genetic trait of a plant, animal, or person. Relationship: This component relates to the Social Studies component by linking historical events with visual arts created at the time.

Technology Component
Standard 5: Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will create a PowerPoint presentation about a plant/animal they have invented. They will describe what traits could be inherited by the offspring, and tell how it would adapt to or help the environment. Relationship: Science component: Students can use a Punnett square to determine the traits of their creations.

Physical Education Component

Standard 3: Students will understand and apply the healthenhancing benefits of physical activity and proper nutrition. Objective 1: Demonstrate and apply knowledge of physical fitness. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will review the components of healthrelated fitnessespecially genetic risk factors. Relationship: This relates to Language Arts by using the vocabulary learned as test words.

Math Component
Domain-Number and Operations-Fractions: Students will develop an understanding of their environment. Standard: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will figure out the probability of a parent passing on a certain genetic factor to their offspring. Relationship: Figuring out probabilities can be used when students create their own animal in the Technology component. Also, Science Standard 3 Objective 3-the students discuss the traits that they inherited and how they have changed how they have grown up and discuss on how they expect to change and what traits they might get from their parents as their bodies continue to change.

Social Studies Component

Standard 1: Students will understand how the exploration and colonization of North America transformed human history. Objective 2: Describe and demonstrate appropriate social skills necessary for working in a group. Lesson Plan Idea: Students will analyze and explain the population decline in American Indian populations as a result of European genetic exposure, immunity, or resistance to diseases. Relationship: This relates to Fine Arts when students view American Indian visual arts relating to their culture and history.