General
Information
Project
Overview
Kindergarten students will share information about
bears with individual classes. This will be done through
"Toy Bear" visits home. French students will
read about their bear visit to English classes.
Students will learn bear facts through internet
access. Students will learn the names of bears that exist
in areas in the world, for example, bears of Australia.
Kindergarten students will participate in Bear activities
that are created by the teacher for teaching printing
skills, letter recognition, reading readiness, factual
items, color words, number recognition, etc.
Students will visit a local park to talk about Bears.
Local community persons will be contacted regarding,
bringing in taxidermy bear, library visits to find
information on bears, internet information on bears at
Canadian wide library.
Curriculum
Connections
Curriculum areas addressed by project:
Science:
- Weather related - Seasons changes in areas that
our school in Stephenville has access to, for
example, Australia has no winter, but do they
have spring? What do the "Koalas", for
example, do all year with no winter?
- There are Bears in other countries that do not
have seasonal changes as we do. Do they
Hibernate? Do they have the same kind of
"fur" coat?
- Mapping and Globes skills - where are the
countries that are being contacted with the
Internet.
Math:
- Bear Booklets will be done up to teach numbers
from 0-5, 6-10, 10-20. Students will learn
counting skills, rate, sequencing and quantities
up to 20.
- Patterning can be taught - measurements, for
example, How tall is this bear? How short is this
bear?
- French students will learn 0-20 in French.
Health:
- What are healthy foods that the bear eats? What
do bears eat? Do the bears in, for example,
Mexico eat meat, fish, rotten foods, etc.
Language Arts:
- Bear vocabulary - Learn to print words such as:
Bear, in, eat, food, fur, Koala, koala, black,
brown.
- Print Sentences - (I see a black bear.) (I see a
brown bear.)
- French students will learn color words in French
and the word bear in French.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will go on line to locate countries in
the world that have specific bears.
- Students will e-mail libraries across Canada to
gather information regarding Bear Facts.
- Students will e-mail penpals internationally to
exchange information in bears.
Provincial Learning Outcomes
The above outcomes will help develop students math
skills, reading, readiness skills, printing skills,
science skills, mapping skills.
Resource
Connections
The Stellar School Internet Connection is important to
our project. The kindergarten students will learn about
bears native to other countries in the world. Students or
classes may become penpals with kindergarten classes in
other countries.
- Students will learn about seasons in other areas of
the world.
- Students will access global maps for geography and
social study lessons.
Evaluation
The levels of achievement will be monitored by the
teacher through printing booklets, math booklets, oral
reading reports to individual classes, to the same class
and among each other. A report can be done by the class
and e-mailed to other penpal schools.
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