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Fire ecology workshop
1. Applications to a Gifted Education
Program in an Elementary School
FIRE ECOLOGY
WORKSHOP 2013
Michele Thelen
Gifted Education
June 2014
2. Overview
My Story
How Did Content Fit In?
Scientific Method
Dichotomous Key Lesson
Archaeology Lesson Ideas
3. My Story
• Gifted Ed in
Elementary School
• 80 students, grades
K-6
• Cluster Model
• 4-Day Compacted
Curriculum
• Enhance, Enrich
Accelerate
CCSS
Gifted Standards
Science
Social Studies
Technology
Social-Emotional
4. Where did it
“fit in”?
• Alignment to
classroom teacher
units
Scientific Method
Plant Ecology
Archaeology
Weather
• Collaboration with
gifted-cluster
teachers
• Resources
Career Day
5. Scientific Method
• Presented to grades
3-6
• Used format for all
science experiments
& activities
• Common
language/common
concepts
• Aligned to SARSEF
(Southern Arizona
Regional Science &
Engineering Fair)
8. Where to begin?
Activating prior
knowledge
2nd graders & plant
ecology background
knowledge of desert
plants & animals
Extension for 3rd &
4th graders
Think like a scientist
Work like a scientist
*Meet with students weekly
9. Dichotomous Keys
Resources
Provide the background knowledge for future units (older grades)
Lesson built on previous lessons using dicot keys
Resources available at
www.thelenlearningteam.wikispaces.com/forest+fire+ecology
10. Lesson Overview
Activated prior
knowledge
Whole group
activity: creating
class shoe dicot key
Partner work: candy
dicot key
Fine arts extension:
shoe art
12. Activate Prior
Knowledge
• Review what
classroom teacher
had taught
• Create a starting
point based on
knowledge that was
retained from class
unit that was
previously taught
What is an
archaeologist?
What do they do?
What are their
tools?
How do they
“know” about
ancient cultures?
13. Introduction to
Archaeology
• Introduce concept of
“context”
• Summarize story for
students
• Show some of the
illustrations
• Conversations on how
those that found the
artifacts made deductions
about them
• Students select common
household object and
brainstorm “alternate”
uses for item
• Illustrate in black & white,
give new name to object,
& write up “description”
to what it was used for
15. Walnut Canyon
National Monument
More hands-on,
interactive lessons
found at:
Walnut Canyon Teacher
Resources
Tree Ring Activity
Walnut Canyon Web
Quest