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Habitats: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What is a Habitat?: Reading Informational Text
Meeting Basic Needs: Reading Informational Text
Animal Behaviors: Concepts & Processes G
Structural Adaptations: Applying Concepts G
Living Together: Cause & Effect
The Grays Are Coming!: Reading Informational Text
Biomes: Compare & Contrast
Nonliving Factors: Summarizing Information
Habitats Report: Research & Presentation
Plant Adaptations: Classifying Information
Biomes and Climate: Interpreting Visual Data
Rainforest Habitats: Reading Informational Text G
The Oceans Are Alive: Applying Concepts GO2
Habitat in Crisis!: Map Activity
Political Cartoon: Primary Source Analysis
Conservation Vocabulary: Problem-Solution-Results G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)