“What is Climate Change?” Informational Earth Science Bundle

3rd Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle

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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
Determine cause and effect relationships with a focus on effects
creating a new informational text layout with text features in mind.

Materials Needed:

Printable Resources: Required:

copies of Informational Text: “What is Climate Change?” by Jennifer Kaul (1 copy per student)

Optional:

Exit Slip assessment component (1 copy per student)
“Causal Reasoning Design (Focus on Effects)” graphic organizer (1 copy per student or project using document camera for students to copy)
“Brainstorming Design” graphic organizer (1 copy per student or project using document camera for students to copy)

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, RI.3.5 & RI.3.8

File Type: PDF Document

Using informational text to teach reading and comprehension skills is engaging and fun! Based on Earth Science Standards, your students will:

Segment 1: with partners using strategic sentence frames, take literal interpretation of informational text to evaluation and synthesizing
Segment 2: Complete a graphic organizer to show the effects that climate change can have on
Earth.
Segment 3: Create a new layout for the informational text that incorporates select text features.

This lesson addresses the NGSS:

ESS2.D: Weather and Climate: Climate describes a range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over years.

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.