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Topic

What is a Polar Bear?

Polar Bear Basics

Unit Plan- Wildlife-Polar Bears

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Paige Arehart
4th Grade
Learning Outcomes
Academic
Days
(objectives)
Standards
Required
for
activity

Students will recognize and

explore basic facts and
information on Polar Bears.

SC 4.3

Instructional
Strategies

Guided and
Independent Practice

Assessment

Students will be assessed

on participation to
classroom discussion by
providing at least 2
questions or answers to
classroom
discussion/activity.

How Do Polar Bears

Stay Warm?

The students will use

experimentation to determine
how Polar Bears generate heat
as a result of necessity from
their environment.

SC.4.1.1

Guided Practice

Students will write a

and

journal entry upon

SC.4.3.2

completion of experiment
for completion grade as
well as participation in
activity. Both are worth
50% totaling 100% of
credit.

What Color is a Polar

Bears Fur?

Students will recognize and

identify how the Polar Bear
has adapted to their
environment.

SC.4.3.2

Direct Instruction
Guided Practice

Students will create activity

with class and be assessed on
participation and application
to concept being taught by
writing a 1-2 paragraph
journal about what they
learned to be displayed
outside the classroom with
their puppet. If both are
completed student will receive
100%- 50% each.

Finding a Polar Bear

The students will explore the

environment of Polar Bears
and how they live all over the
map, but in similar
environments.

SC.4.3.3

Guided Practice
Independent Practice

Students will research

and complete a 3-5 slide
Power point presentation
on a tracked polar bear of
their choosing. Graded
on 60% content, 20%

accuracy, and 20%

creativity.
5

Culminating Activity:
What have we learned
about Polar Bears

Students will be able to combine

previous learning with new

SC. 4.3,

Guided Practice

Students will write a 1-1

4.1.1,

page research paper on

paper on polar bears and then

4.3.2,

information that they had

apply it to and in class game.

4.3.3

learned in class as well as

information to write a cumulative

using at least 1 source.

Graded on 50% accuracy,
20% grammar and sentence
structure, 20% source
usage, 10% completion.

Indiana Common Core State Standards

SC 4.3 Observe, describe and ask questions about structures of organisms and how they affect their growth and survival.
SC 4.1.1- Describe and investigate the different ways in which heat can be generated.
SC 4.3.3 -Design investigations to explore how organisms meet some of their needs by responding to stimuli from their environments.
SC 4.3.2 -Observe, compare and record the physical characteristics of living plants or animals from widely different environments.
Describe how each plant or animal is adapted to its environment.