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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 071 264 EC 050 872 TITLE Me and My Environment. Unit I: Exploring My Environment. INSTITUTION Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, Colo. SPONS AGENCY Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 72 NOTE 327p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$13.16 DESCRIPTORS Biology; *Class Activities; *Curriculum Guides; *Educable Mentally Handicapped; *Environmental Influences; *Exceptional Child Education; Guidelines; Inquiry Training; Instructional Materials; Lesson Plans; Mentally Handicapped; Problem Solving; Student Behavior ABSTRACT Presented is the experimental edition of Unit I: Exploring My Environment, which consists of 29 life science curriculum activities intended for the 13-to-15-year-old educable mentally retarded child. The curriculum guide is being used in the final field test prior to revision. Stressed throughout the program . are ecological themes, inquiry skills, problem solving skills, environmental elements, and applicational behaviors and attitudes. Seven to 12 activities for each of the three core study areas within Unit I are given of which the following are examples: making a pond, sniffing around, forming categories, and reading &thermometer. Activities are organized into materials, teaching strategies, and anticipated student behaviors. The three cores are sensing the environment, investigating the environment, and landmarks in the environment. The ecological theme stressed is the interrelationships of environmental components. Inquiry skills seen to be developed are observing and identifying. Problem solving skills emphasized are experimenting and knowing what the problem is and what to do about it. Environmental elements considered are space and shelter. Behavioral objectives include the development in the student of a sense of self-identity and an attitude, of inquiry.(See EC 050 871, and EC 050 873 through EC 050 875 for related curriculum guides.) (DB) Biological , . r , Unit Explorin Experimental Edition 1972,-1973 . ' '''' -' '* ' :i'. Y F, 1't ', t , , . , . :' Biological Sciences Curriculum Study gyring` My Environment Copyright (c)1972 by the Biological Sciences Curriculum For permissions and other rights under this copyright, pl. SciLilces Curriculum Study, P. O. Box 930, Boulder, Cobra This work was developed under a grant with the U. S. Offi of Health, Education and Welfare. However, the opinions necessarily reflect the position or policy cf that Agency ment should be inferred. 01, t,f l'Af4r141 N. ui ,11 Al Tli 1,1,{ A lioN P. WI II Al R Of I a 1(III Dit( A TION BSCS _logical Sciences Curriculum Study. All rights reserved. :;:its under this copyright, please write the Biological O. Box 930, Boulder, Colorado 80302. f a grant with the U. S. Office of Education, Department fare. However, the opinions expressed herein do not _ion or policy of that Agency, and no --`:cial endorse- `'F PARIMF ht (1 '(f 1111,4 f r)t)( :AMIN X. v1{ II Aft{ of II( I Of 11)11( A TION' o?v. L Me and my Environment CONTENTS Unit I Exploring My Environment # BSCS Staff iii Activity 1-6. Writers iv Activity 1-7. Evaluators Activity 1-8. Introduction vii Activity 1-9. Floating Activity. Meet The Camera xxvii Activity 1-10. Aims For Me And Mv Environment 1 Activity 1-11. Unit I Goal 1 Activity 1-12. Objectives of Core A SENSING MY ENVIRONMENT 1 Objectives of C INVEST Core A Rationale 2 Core B Rational Background Information For The Teacher 2 Background Info Planning Guide, Core A 4A Planning Guide, Activity1-1. An Animal In Class 5 Activity1-13. Activity1-2. A Pond In The Classroom 11 Activity1-14. Act!vity1-3. Taking A Closer Look 23 Activity1-15. Activity1-4. A Closer Look Outside 33 Activity1-16. Activity1-5. Zoom In, Zoom Out 39 1 Unit I Exploring My Environment BSCS ....iii Activity 1-6. Sounds From My Environment 47 iv Activity 1-7. Environmental Orchestra 55 Activity 1-8. Sounds Around Us 63 ....vii Activity 1-9. Sniffing Around 69 ..xxvii Activity 1-10. A Strange Feeling 77 1 Activity 1-11. Putting Yourself In The Picture... A Review Of Success 83 1 Activity 1-12. An Animal Environment 97 1 Objectives of Core B INVESTIGATING MY ENVIRONMENT 95 2 Core B Rationale 96 2 Background Information For The Teacher 96 4A Planning Guide, Core B 98A 5 Activity 1-13. Introduction To Sorting 99 11 Activity 1-14. Sorting Things In Our Environment 107 23 Activity 1-15. Categorizing In Terms Of Living - Nonliving... 113 33 Activity 1-16. Forming Categories 123 39 11, Me and my Environment CONTENTS Unit I Exploring My Environment Activity 1-17. review Of Success 129 Planning Guide, C Activity 1-18. Temperatures Affect All Living Things 131 Activity 1-23. Activity 1-19. Reading A Thermometer 137 Activity 1-24. 1 Activity 1-20. Temperatures In My Outside Environment 147 Activity 1-25. Activity 1-21. Measurement In My Environment 155 Activity 1-26. Activity 1-22. Review Of Success 165 Activity 1-27. ,, Objectives of Core C Activity 1-28. F LANDMARKS IN MY ENVIRONMENT 171 Activity 1-29. Core C Rationale 172 Background Information For The Teacher 172 ';TENTS Unit I Exploring My Environment BSCS 129 Planning Guide, Core C 174A -.gs 131 Activity 1-23. Establishing Environmental Landmarks 175 137 Activity 1-24. Landmarks And Habitats In My Environment 185 -ent 147 Activity 1-25. Homes And Habitats In My World 191 155 Activity 1-26. A Recycled Spaceship 195 165 Activity 1-27. To The Moon In Our Room 201 Activity 1-28. Far Out Habitats 211 171 Activity 1-29. Review Of Success 217 .172 172 .'-% Me and my BSCS STAFF Environment WILLIAM V. MAYER STAFF CONSULTANTS ILLUSTRATION STAFF Director JAY E. ANDERSON ROBERT F. WILSON MANERT H. KENNEDY Art Director Associate Director DOROTHY S. CURTIS ESTER A. BAUTISTA GEORGE M. CLARK JAMES S. ECKENROD Assistant Director JUDITH A. BUCHER ROY 0. GROMME KEITH L. BUMSTED SUE E. HARTLEY Business Manager FAITH M. HICKMAN CAROLE L. JENCKS JILL R. NAGRODSKY GLORIA M. KROEGER FREDERICK A. RASMUSSEN ARE L. LUDVIGSEN JAMES T. ROBINSON ANN L. MANNERING NORRIS M. ROSS, JR. WAYNE E. MEINEKE HAROLD A. RUPERT, JR. MICHAEL J. O'NEILL JOE M. STEELE LAWRENCE A. STRAND RICHARD R. TOLMAN JOHA B. THORNTON ROY M. UDO BSCS STAFF BSCS 4 ILLUSTRATION STAFF SECRETARIAL STAFF ROBERT F. WILSON KATHY CAMPASSI Art Director EUNICE COMBS ESTER A. BAUTISTA MELISSA COONEY JUDITH A. BUCHER ROSALIND FRASCONA SUE E. HARTLEY VETA HARTMAN CAROLE L. JENCKS SHIRLEY RUPP GLORIA M. KROEGER DONNA SANERIB ARNE L. LUDVIGSEN MEREDITH SPIELDS ANN L. MANNERING KAY SIEBEN WAYNE E. MEINEKE LYNN ZARINA MICHAEL J. O'NEILL LAWRENCE A. STRAND JOHN B. THORNTON LIBRARIAN ROY M. UDO JUDITH SCHRAG iv Me and my Writers and Committees, 1971-73 Experimental .1 Environment 1971 Summer Writing Team THOMAS E. ALLEN WILLIAM G. VOLANTE WALTER AUFFENBERC Florida State University Turkey Hill Middle School Florida State Tallahassee, Florida Lunenburg, Massachusetts Gainesville, Fl JOSEPHINE A. BENNETT MARTHA M. WILLIAMS WILLIAM EDWARDS Whitehaven Higti School Kepner Jr. High School Laramie County South Memphis, Tennessee Denver, Colorado Cheyenne, Wyomi DONALD R. DAUGS WREN GREEN University of Victoria University of Victoria, B. C., Canada Project Advisory Committee Vancouver, B. FLORENCE B. HAAG WILLIAM R. REID, Chairman FLORENCE HAAG Ida Patte:son School University of Florida Ida Patterson S Eugene, Oregon Gainesville, Florida Eugene, Oregon CREGG INGRAM ROBERT L. ERDMAN JERRY HUBSCHMAN Southwest Educational University of Utah Wright State Ur Development Center Salt Lake City, Utah Dayton, Ohio Cedar City, Utah WARREN HEISS CANDACE LIGHT JO ANN JEPPSON Montclair State College Hodgkins Jr. Hi Granite Park Jr. High School Montclair, New Jersey Denver, Colora Salt Lake City, Utah JERRY H. HUBSCHMAN KEITH MORRILL KEITH MORRILL Wright State University South Dakota S South Dakota State University Dayton, Ohio Brookings, Sout Brookings, South Dakota EDWARD L. MEYEN ALICE OGURA NORRIS M. ROSS, JR. University of Missouri Balarat Enviro Nicolet High School Columbia, Missouri Denver, Colora Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1 and Committees, 1971-73 Experimental Materials BSCS 1972 Summer Writing Team ;TE WALTER AUFFENBERG JOAN PETERS addle School Florida State Museum Boulder, Colorado ssachusetts Gainesville, Florida NORRIS M. ROSS, JR. AMS WILLIAM EDWARDS Nicolet High School 411 School Laramie County Community CollP -e Milwaukee Wisconsin ado Cheyenne, Wyoming WREN GREEN University of British Columbia BSCS Project Staff Committee Vancouver, B. C., Canada JAY E. ANDERSON, 1971-72 Chairman FLORENCE HAAG GEORGE M. CLARK, 1971-73 Florida Ida Patterson School DOROTHY S. CURTIS, 1972-73 'lorida Eugene, Oregon ROY 0. GRAMME, 1971-73 FAITH M. HICKMAN, 1971-72 JERRY HUBSCHMAN H. WAYNE JOHNSON, 1972 Utah Wright State University MANERT H. KENNEDY, 1971-73 7, Utah Dayton, Ohio JILL R. NAGRODSKY, 1972-73 NORRIS M. ROSS, JR., 1972-73 CANDACE LIGHT HAROLD A. RUPERT, 1971-73 e College Hodgkins Jr. High School JOE M. STEELE, 1971-73 g Jersey Denver, Colorado RICHARD R. TOLMAN, 1971-73 MAN KEITH MORRILL 4liversity South Dakota State University Me and My Environment Support Staff Brookings, South Dakota ALICE OGURA EILEEN BURKE, 1972 MELISSA GOONEY, 1971-73 Missouri Balarat Environmental Center 3ouri Denver, Colorado JOANNE KLEBBA, 1972 LYNN ZARINA, 1971-73 Me and my' Evaluators Environment V Test Teachers, 1972-74 Experimental Edition, Field JUNE ALLBRANDT VITO LOMBARDO Lake Junior High School F. D. R. Middle School Denver, Colorado Bristol, Pennsylvania ALICE BIGHAM DOUGLAS McCULLOUGH Aycock Junior High School L. Y. Cairns School Raleigh, North Carolina Edmonton, Alberta, Canada CECILIA FARMER EDWARD McNULTY R. 0. Gibson Jr. High School Eastwood School Las Vegas, Nevada Kirkville, New York SHELDON FINE JOAN McNULTY Intermediate School 148 Central Junior High School Bronx, New York DeWitt, Iowa CARL HOFF EVA REEDY Lafayette Middle School Benjamin Franklin Jr. High School Lafayette, Colorado San Francisco, California ALMA JENKINS EDWARD SHERMAN .3kiles Middle School Intermediate School 131 Evanston, Illinois Bronx, New York MOLLIE KITE HOWARD SHIPLEY The Pathfinder School Judsons Hill School Bethel Park, Pennsylvania Morristown, Tennessee Evaluators BSCS -74 Experimental Edition, Field Test II OMBARDO EDITH SHIPMAN .