Populations: Plants, Critters and Food Webs!

As I’ve mentioned before, my district requires that third grade covers four science kits. I teach Subsystems and Variables, Motion, Engineering, and finally Populations. I’m currently at the very beginning of teaching Populations, and it’s always a lot of fun. We use two SCIS 3+ kits, and I love how hands-on they are! The kids especially love our critters, but I am always looking for ways to extend and support my little learners. That’s where my next TpT unit comes in. I created resources to supplement my existing curriculum. I hope that it can also help others beef up their resources! I want to explicitly say that this isn’t a kit of experiments, and it isn’t a curriculum by any means. It’s a collection of supplemental resources, but I love them, and I hope you will too! As always, you can check them out by looking at my preview file HERE!  I’ll post updates as we progress through the unit!

I also wanted to share an interesting experience with everyone!  Yesterday, I attended an in-service at a local college with some of my colleagues, and I had the opportunity to meet David Wiesner. He talked about his childhood, his art influences, how he gets ideas for his books, the steps he goes through to make books like Tuesday, and shared some ideas on how to use his books in the classroom (namely using them to write reader’s theater scripts). He’s not a teacher, so he mainly shared pictures of art projects that kids sent to him or scripts that were mailed to him.  Personally, I love how his wordless books are so great for inferring! In fact, I left the in-service with his new book Art & Max. It’s fabulous!  I’m going to leave you with some pictures from our afternoon! It was Flotsam themed, so I couldn’t resist documenting it!  We even had lobster bisque and seafood salad for lunch!  🙂