Project Based Learning - Animals in Winter | PBL | plans | rubric | assessment

Animals in winter is a perfect resource for project-based learning. Let your students explore the wonders of how animals use different strategies to survive changes in their environment.

This project based learning unit focuses on the animals chosen by the students, two animals that hibernate (bear and hedgehog), two animals that migrate (monarch butterfly and duck), and two animals that adapt (rabbit and deer) during the season of winter. This PBL was “piloted” on a preK class and they had a GREAT time! The activities presented in this packet can easily be adapted to a kindergarten level.

This unit contains the following activities:

Link to Voki, Sorting animals,

Animals in winter facts, Pocket chart pictures,

KWL chart, Patterns,

Rubric and Self-Assessment, Making sets,

Pre-Kindergarten Standards, Tree patterns,

Kindergarten Common Core Standards, Headband patterns,

This PBL has been updated to include technology tutorials for Chatterpix, Voki, and Thinglink and a fact booklet on Winter animals is included.

Standards

CCSSCCRA.L.6

Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.

CCSSCCRA.L.3

Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

CCSSCCRA.SL.6

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

CCSSCCRA.SL.5

Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

CCSSSL.K.6

Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

CCSSSL.K.5

Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

CCSSSL.K.4

Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

CCSSRF.K.4

Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

CCSSRF.K.3c

Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

For other Project Based Learning Products - click on the links below:

Project Based Learning Who Can Live in the Zoo

Project Based Learning Native Americans

PBL: Star Wars, A Modern Day Fairy Tale

Project Based Learning - Digging Up Dinosaurs

This goes perfectly with my Winter Animal Digital Timer product which can be viewed at:

Beezy Digital Rotation Timer 20 Minutes Winter Animal Theme

Fact Booklet - Bear

Reindeer Fact Booklet

Fact Booklet - Hedgehog

Fact Booklet - Rabbit

Fact Booklet - Duck

Butterfly Facts Booklet

I hope you enjoy this product!

TheBeezyTeacher