Writing+and+Science+Biomes


 * Lesson Plan Title:** PLT- Trees as Habitats activity 22 page 102


 * Grade(s) Suggested:** Any


 * Content Areas:** Writing/Figurative Language/1st Person/Point of View/Habitats/Biomes


 * Standards Addressed: Paragraphing/Writing/**Science/Habitats/Biomes

**Procedure:** PLT- Trees as Habitats activity 22 page 102 I used this lesson to do a writing activity that included writing in first person and write from the perspective/ point of view of the tree. We also included figures of speech in order to enhance the writing. This included personification, onomatopeia, similes, and alliteration. The students went to the forest and observed the traits of the trees. Bark, leaf type/size, needles, branch style/type height, size in diameter etc. We then brainstormed things the kids determined the trees would see/feel in the forest. Animals (including types of animals), people, wind, cold, heat, fire, insects (some good and bad), things that could happen to trees (people cutting etc). They determined different levels that the trees perspective could come from. Essentially a perspective from the top of the tree down to the bottom or from the bottom of the tree up. Some kids asked to write from the perspective of a fallen tree. I hadn't thought of that perspective. We connected the writing to our study of biomes and types of habitats within a biome that we studied earlier in the year. We reviewed biomes prior to the lesson/activity. Our focus was on the deciduous forest. The writing activity helped to meet the science and writing objectives of the activity. How animals and plants depend on trees for survival and in turn influence the trees and to identify the interrelationship between the organism using the tree. This lesson pulled in skills like: observing, inferring, indentifying relationships, and realizing there are mini habitats within a habitat.
 * General Objectives:** To have the children see the point of view of the forest, while meeting writing standards.
 * Time Required:** Two- one hour periods
 * Required Materials:** An outdoor habitat, Paper, pencil
 * Closure:** Shared our writing and elements of writing.


 * Assessment Based On Objectives: **Did the kids demonstrate the elements of the lesson.