Tech Integration Recipe Card
Author: Elisa Magee and Linda Miller
Campus: Blattman
Project Name: Desert Animal Research
Grade Level: First
Content Area: Science
Content Skill: identify, illustrate and explain characteristics and
adaptations of desert animals
Content Standards: L. A.: Inquiry and Research IV A, B, C Science: II. B, E
Technology Standards: III. C, D
Software Application Used: Kid Pix/PowerPoint
Materials Needed: Link: http://www.nisd.net/blattman/links/1/desert/1_desert.htm
PowerPoint with research information and recorded voice reading text for non-readers
Research Guide
Egg Carton Rattlesnake: egg carton, rice, small plastic cups with lids to hold rice, wiggle eyes,
felt diamonds, red pipe cleaner and Tacky Glue
Nonfiction book: Rattlesnake by Doug Weschler
Fiction book: Baby Rattlesnake Adapted by Lynn Moroney
LoTi Level: 3
Estimated time for completing projects: 2 - 45-minute lab periods and 1 - 45-minute
library period
Description of project:
1st Session:
Students work in pairs to view and hear Desert Animal Research PowerPoint. Using a
research guide, students take notes on a desert animal. One partner completes top portion
of the guide, while 2nd partner completes lower portion. Students share what they learned
with each other and a teacher.
Vocabulary introduced: nocturnal, diurnal, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, adaptation
Desert Animals studied: roadrunner, fringed-toed lizard, desert tortoise, scorpion,
jackrabbit, sidewinder, tarantula, kit fox
2nd session:
Students returned to the computer lab to create a Kid Pix illustration detailing facts and
information recorded on the research guide. The slide is combined with partner’s slide
and added to whole class presentation. Kid Pix images are inserted into PowerPoint.
Students add details and record voices.
3rd Session:
Librarian introduces topic with a rattlesnake puppet and hidden rattle. Review vocabulary
and introduce instinct. Students predict what instinct means. Librarian shares nonfiction
and fiction books about rattlesnakes. Students then confirm or reject their prediction on
what instinct means. Students then create an egg carton rattlesnake.
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Tech Integration Recipe Card
Author: Elisa Magee and Linda Miller
Campus: Blattman
Culmination:
Desert animal PowerPoint is shared with parents at Open House.
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Tech Integration Recipe Card
Author: Elisa Magee and Linda Miller
Campus: Blattman
Source: NISD 1st Grade Science Curriculum/The Desert WebQuest
Student Researcher:________________________
Animal: __________________________________
Class: ___________________________________
Circle one:
nocturnal diurnal
Covering: ________________________________
Home: ___________________________________
Source: NISD 1st Grade Science Curriculum/The Desert WebQuest
Student Researcher:________________________
Animal: __________________________________
Food: ____________________________________
Circle one:
herbivore carnivore omnivore
eats plants eats meat eats plants and meat
and
Enemy:
_____________________________________________
Adaptation/Special Fact:
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
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Tech Integration Recipe Card
Author: Elisa Magee and Linda Miller
Campus: Blattman
Source: NISD 1st Grade Science Curriculum/The Desert WebQuest
Investigador escolar:______________________________
Animal: _________________________________________
Clase: __________________________________________
Circula uno:
nocturno diurno
Cubierta:
___________________________________________________
Vivienda:
___________________________________________________
Source: NISD 1st Grade Science Curriculum/The Desert WebQuest
Investigador escolar:_____________________________________
Animal: ________________________________________________
Alimento: ______________________________________________
Circula uno:
herbívoro carnívoro omnívoro
come plantas come carne come plantas y carne
y
Enemigo:
____________________________________________
Adaptación/Dato especial:__________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
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