Student Teacher Second

04/20/2017 - 04/20/2017
Placement
Class View
Miss Draklellis
Butterfly Unit Day 2: All About Caterpillars Jigsaw Day
Standards
3.1.2.A3 Identify similarities and differences in the life cycles of plants and animals.

Students will be able to recognize and record the important information after reading different subtopics about
caterpillars
Lesson / Instruction
Implementation:
Introduction
Bring students to carpet
Review the K + W of Butterfly KWL Chart (choral read)
Ask students if, in previous lesson, we found answers to any of our questions
Introduce concept for the day: becoming experts on caterpillars
Explain: Groups of 3-4 will read a text about caterpillars, take notes on it, and become experts about
that topic. Each group will have a different topic (2 groups will have to read about and label the parts
of a butterfly, 2 will read about what caterpillars eat, and the last two groups will read about how
caterpillars protect themselves). Then, once everyone group has become an expert, I'm going to
break up your groups and put you into new groups, where there will be 1-2 experts from each topic,
and each expert will "teach" the other members of the learning group. So, because you'll be teaching
your friends, you'll need to take really good notes and make sure you learn all that you can about your
topic.
Development
Project division of expert and learning groups
EXPERT
GROUP 1 (Parts of a Caterpillar)
Thursday Nazeh, Claire, Imari
04/20/ GROUP 2 (Parts of a Caterpillar)
2017 Alexia, Stella, Lilly
GROUP 3 (What do caterpillars eat)
Christina, Kaylee, Chloe,
GROUP 4 (what do caterpillars eat)
Judy, Jason, Joey
GROUP 5 (how do they defend themselves)
Nathan, Nareh, Ava
GROUP 6 (how do they defend themselves)
Ella, Jacob, Ariz
LEARNING
GROUP A
Nazeh, Stella, Christina, Jason, Nathan, Ariz
GROUP B
Claire, Lilly Judy, Kaylee, Nareh, Ella
GROUP C
Alexia, Imari Chloe, Joey, Jacob, Ava
Review expectations for group work
Send students off into predetermined locations for "expert" group time
Give students 10 minutes
Stop students in expert groups and explain expectations in learning groups
Go down the list of topics, let the experts teach about their topics, while everyone else takes notes.
Don't be afraid to ask questions if you're confused or if you don't hear something! We're all helping
each other
Break students off into "learning" groups
Give 15-20 minutes
Closure
Bring students back to carpet
Review "teacher expert" information

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Student Teacher Second
04/20/2017 - 04/20/2017
Placement
Class View
Miss Draklellis
Ask students to fill in any information they don't have
Send students back with exit ticket "1 fact from each topic you learned" and collect once finished
Differentiation / Accommodations
Differentiation:
Visuals of jigsaw movement/topics about caterpillars posted/displayed at stations and on doc cam
Students of varying levels group together in expert groups in order to support each other in initial learning
Oral and visual direction
Instructional Strategies
s Jigsaw

Materials / Resources / Technology

Jigsaw Groupings visual
6 copies of parts of a caterpillar
6 copies of what do caterpillars eat
6 copies of how do caterpillars defend themselves
22 copies of Caterpillar labeling + vocab
22 copies of what do caterpillars eat note chart
22 copies of how do caterpillars defend themselves
Teacher copies of answers to all 3 subtopics
Visuals of each subtopic
Doc Cam
Butterfly KWL Chart
Attachments
Caterpillarjigsawgroups.docx

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