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“Space Junk: Earth’s Unofficial Ring” Informational Earth Science: Classifying

5th Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
$2.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: 1 Lesson Plan

Skills:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and classifying information
  • Classify and identify effects
  • Analyze possible solutions to the problem

Materials Needed:

  • Pencils and crayons or colored pencils
  • blank white paper
  • Document camera or whiteboard

Printable Resources: Required:

  • copies of Informational Text: “Space Junk: Earth’s Unofficial Ring” by Jennifer Kaul (1 per student)
Optional:
  • “Classifying Design” graphic organizer (1 per student or project using document camera for students to copy)

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills is a foundational goal for 3rd graders. Perfect for multilingual learners, this 1 hour lesson includes using  a printable Informational Life Science text, “Winter Survival,” written by Jennifer Kaul.  Your students will:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and classifying information
  • Analyze the effects of space debris on astronauts, and brainstorm solutions  to reduce the amount of debris.

The text used in this lessons addresses the NGSS: ESS3.C:

  • Human Impacts on Earth Systems Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth’s resources and environments.

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the ELA Bundle: “Space Junk: Earth’s Unofficial Ring” Informational Earth Science Bundle,” will result in duplicate content.