List the objectives that support chosen learning standard goals and call for learners to gain information.

List the instructional strategies that might be used to accomplish the objectives.

List technology resources that might be used to accomplish the objectives.

Create & describe learning activities that incorporate identified instructional strategies and available technology resources in a way that allows the learner to accomplish objectives.

Think about creative forms of assessment, list some possibilities, match assessments with objectives.

Georgia QCC Learning Standards

Objectives

Subject: 

Science

Strand/Course:

Biomes

Topic: 

Identifying Characteristics of Biomes

Number: 

NA

Standard:

ES27 identifies the global and local distribution of biomes in relation to climatic conditions

ES27.1 investigates the geographical distribution of plants and animals

ES27.2 compares and contrasts the plants and animals in biomes  

Define the following terms:

 -biomes

 -climate

Identify the two determining factors in a region’s climate

-temperature

-precipitation  

-Presentation

-Demonstration

-Discussion

-Problem solving

-Discovery

Internet

Website

VRML plugin for your web browser

Following an introductory lesson on factors that determine biome locations, students will visit http://www.earth.nasa.gov/gallery/ to identify the specific locations of world biomes.  Students will transfer this information onto student maps. Students will also visit http://www.terracruise.com/earth.html.  This virtual site allows students to attempt to identify various biomes as they take a panoramic view of the earth.

Students will use the discovery method of learning to identify distinguishing traits of various biomes.  Traits students are to identify include terrain, plants, and animals specific to the biomes.  Some websites students may visit to gather information include:

http://geography.berkeley.edu/personalpages/l_bennett/BennettVR/HTML/Southwest/ArizNewMex/ArizNewMex.html#TOC 

http://www-geoimages.berkeleages/QTVR/QTVR.htmly.edu/GeoIm 

These two websites are virtual sites and allow students to select regions on the North American continent.  Students may take a panoramic view of various sites to collect information on terrain, plants, and draw conclusions about climate.

http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webunits/biomes/biomes.html

This is a wonderful site although not VRML.  Students are able to learn much about the biome – specific information on plants, animals, climate, and other interesting facts.  Additional web links are assessable for student use.