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Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Set up:
Write “What is Biodiversity? Why is it
important?” on the board, the content
objectives and language objectives, and write
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up the homework assignment (produce a
min
word study guide for the bolded vocabulary
for Chapter 4.4 and 4.5). Set up the projector
to show the TED-Ed video on YouTube about
biodiversity.
LESSON BODY
Instruct students to write down any Students write down words that
important words that they see or hear in the they feel is important from the
video. video.
Display the TED-Ed video named “Why is
biodiversity so important?”
Pass out the word study guide template to
each student. Project the word study guide
template up on the ELMO. Students turn to page 78 in their
textbooks.
Have students open textbook to Chapter 4 on
pg. 78 and read section 1. Students compare the words that
they had come up with from the
Instruct students to pay attention to big idea video and the words from the book.
7-10 Circle the ones in common.
words (bolded/italicized) and circle any
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words, on their sheet of paper, that are in
common between the video and the textbook.
Remind students that we are going to be
learning about the meaning of new words
today.
Give students about 7 minutes to read the Students will independently read.
section.
Afterwards, the teacher will begin explaining
how to complete the word study guide by
modeling how to fill in each column.
LESSON CLOSURE
Time Teacher Does Student Does
Have students put their names on the word Turn in their completed word
study guide and collect them. Remind study guide.
45-48
students of homework assignment: complete
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another word study guide for Chapter 4-4
and 4-5.