Habitats – Common Core Lessons & Activities

The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.



You are purchasing the paperback format of this book. The Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Habitats - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What is a Habitat?: Reading Informational Text
Meeting Basic Needs: Reading Informational Text
Animal Behaviors: Concepts & Processes G
Structural Adaptations: Applying Concepts G
Living Together: Cause & Effect
The Grays Are Coming!: Reading Informational Text
Biomes: Compare & Contrast
Nonliving Factors: Summarizing Information
Habitats Report: Research & Presentation
Plant Adaptations: Classifying Information
Biomes and Climate: Interpreting Visual Data
Rainforest Habitats: Reading Informational Text G
The Oceans Are Alive: Applying Concepts GO2
Habitat in Crisis!: Map Activity
Political Cartoon: Primary Source Analysis
Conservation Vocabulary: Problem-Solution-Results G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)