ST Mastery 35%

Strategies Planned
Demonstration (how to build a graph and how to color in a graph)
Hands-on experience (students built 3-D graphs with fruit loops and categorized
objects as living or non-living things into hula hoops)
Direct instructions (how to create and write about ideas, how to make connections in
reading)
Categorizing (grouping data in a graph, living vs non-living things, and solids, liquids,
and gases)
Competition (students created and voted on the name of the fish)
Organizing and managing information
Multiple Intelligences fostered
Body/Kinesthetic Building 3-D graphs, sorting objects into living and non-living
things

SF Interpersonal 35%
Strategies Planned
Group experiences and working with others (rotate around 4 centers with a group in
science)
Chances to share ideas with other students and present ideas to the class (sharing
Winter sentences with the class)
Group investigation (observing the fish)
Multiple Intelligences fostered
Musical/Rhythmic learning a song in science center
Interpersonal working in groups, sharing ideas with classmates

NI - Understanding 20%
Strategies Planned
Relating and connecting different ideas (living vs non-living things,
solids/liquids/gases, connections in literature)
Gaining information through direct instruction and searching the textbook for
information (at guided reading station)
Chances to work independently in hands-on activities (word work center)
Comparing and contrasting (living vs non-living things, and solids, liquids, and gases)
Multiple Intelligences fostered

 Intrapersonal working independently during reading centers

Verbal/Linguistic writing, sharing ideas in groups

NF Self-expressive 10%
Strategies Planned
Discussion and chance to ask questions during instruction
Discovery learning (In science centers)
Creating hypotheses (In states of matter lesson)
Creative art activities (in science center with live fish)
Multiple Intelligences fostered
Logical/Mathematical creating hypotheses and graphs
Visual/Spatial drawing picture of fish, cut and paste sort on solids, liquids, and gases
Naturalist playing a game on the internet where students go on a nature walk to
identify living and non-living things