Where's the Wolf? Let's Talk Territory

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=56 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="011a0a03.jpg"> <div> Where's the Wolf?  Let's Talk Territory</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=135 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="21fa0c01dduajq.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Educators Science and Math Institute Ser"><U><B>Educators' Science and Math Institute Series</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Series"><U><B>About the Series</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Goals"><U><B>Goals</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Institutes"><U><B>Institutes</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="lesson_plans_prepared_by_esmis_participants_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson Plans"><U><B>Lesson 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wolf pack, which include other connecting wolf ecology concepts.</div> <bR> <div> Purpose:</div> <div> Educate students on wolf behavior through various mediums, subject areas, and intelligences.</div> <bR> <div> Objectives:</div> <div> In response to read aloud,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Students will journal on aspects of being a dispersed wolf vs. a wolf accepted into a new territory.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Students will retell story with art response</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Students will take part in physical demonstration of pack size, location, communication defending pack territory.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Students will create map of territory changes of pack and plot wolf locations.</div> <bR> <div> Resources:</div> <div> Book by Jonathan London, <I>The Eyes of a Grey Wolf </I></div> <div> Construction paper or paper bags, markers, paint, sponges</div> <div> "Scent containers"</div> <div> Large paper placed on floor</div> <div> Colored markers</div> <div> Maps of midwest/US</div> <bR> <div> Activities and Procedures:</div> <div> K-W-L wolves/territories</div> <div> What do they already know?</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Read aloud <I>Eyes of Grey Wolf</I> with journal responses addressing the despersed wolf looking for a new pack and having to enter another pack's territory.</div> <div> Prompts dealing with alone-left out     /     </div> <div>                Accepted-included/ alone-vs.-accepted</div> <div> Can be related to wolf struggle or human social interractions as well.</div> <div> -Art response, retell story in Native American pictographs or ___ art stenciling.</div> <bR> <div> Activity:</div> <div> Wolves mark territory by scent (urination).  Kids find pack using sense of smell and matching their scent (in film(?) container) with others in their pack.</div> <div> -Once packs find themselves they stand in clumps directed towards spot on large paper on floor.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Each pack could also have territory "marked" on separate piece of paper.</div> <div> One student uses a marker to "mark" pack's territory by drawing circle around groups.</div> <bR> <div>      Discussion at this point on </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">pack size, type of prey</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">wolf communication verbal is discussed and acted out as wolves sometimes howl to protect their territory.</div> <bR> <div> Human relation link:</div> <div> Cut or rip all or some of territory(ies) and have students brainstorm and discuss way humans destroy or alter the wolves' habitat/territory where they live.</div> <div>                     To</div> <div> How can we respect this territory</div> <bR> <div> Lastly - Students look at actual maps of pack territory changes over a period of years, and track the path of a collared wolf on a ;map using the I.W.C. data base.</div> <bR> <div> Closure-Tying it all together with real-world application:</div> <div> List or discuss new things learned (complete K-W-L)</div> <div> Student shares one thing they know about wolf territory with neighbor or whisper to teacher as "ticket" to recess.</div> <div> Students share journal writing in regard to what new concepts mean to them.</div> <div> Students make sloppy copy of territory fact sheet.</div> <bR> <div> Assessment Strategies:</div> <div> Open-ended questioning/listening to challenging student response during learning activities and discussion.</div> <div> -Product story retelling through art</div> <div> -Students create final copy of Territory facts from K-W-L in form of writing their favorite fact on a page and illustrating > place in class book.</div> <bR> <div> Standards Addressed:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Constructing scientific knowledge, how we investigate and learn about our world</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reflecting on scientific knowledge</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Using scientific knowledge in Life Sciences - interrelationships of using things in ecosystems</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Language Arts Standards: Literature, Ge___(?), and Craft of language</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Social Studies standards:  Human/Environmental/Interactions</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>