Technology in the Curriculum

 ~Introduction~

This Life Science Unit on Classifying Living Things was developed for a fifth grade class to be completed over a four week time period.  The unit focuses on various teacher and collaborative student based projects.  The overall goal is to answer the essential, unit, and content questions that were developed prior to beginning the unit.   I have included various differentiated instructional activities that can be modified to meet the needs of regular education students as well as resource, ESL, and gifted and talented students.  Students will use a variety of hands-on tools including the Internet to complete their assignments.  

The objectives of this unit are:                                     

• to identify the six life processes

• identify a cell

• describe the parts and functions of plant and animal cells

• identify the functions of the main organs and cells in the body