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

5th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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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
  • Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
  • Classify information and create a new layout for an informational text with a focus on text features

Materials Needed:

  • Blank & lined pieces of paper
  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Document camera or whiteboard

Printable Resources: Required:

  • copies of Informational Text: “Space Junk: Earth’s Unofficial Ring” by Jennifer Kaul (1 per student)
Optional:
  • “Exit Slip” optional assessment component (1 per student or project using document camera for students to copy)
  • “Classifying Design” graphic organizer (1 per student or project using document camera for students to copy)
  • “Brainstorming 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, RI.5.6, & RI.5.8

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this bundle of lessons includes 3 separate segments (30-60 minutes each) based around an Informational Life Science text, “Space Junk: Earth’s Unofficial Ring,” by Jennifer Kaul.  Your students will:

  • Segment 1: work in partners with strategic sentence frames to take a literal interpretation of informational text to evaluation and synthesizing.
  • Segment 2: complete a graphic organizer to classify three animal species and how they survive winter
  • Segment 3: create a new layout for the informational text that incorporates purposeful text features

The text used in these 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.

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