Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Story of Milk: How did that milk get from the cow to my cereal?

The Story of Milk
How did that milk get from the cow to my cereal?

Author(s):
Kathi O’Riley
Abbey Bennett


Grade Level: 1
Timeframe: 1 day
Number of hours: 1 hour
Lesson Description or Explanation

The first grade students at our field site will be taking a field trip to a farm next week. This lesson will help prepare them for that field trip. For some of the students, this will be the first time they will see farm animals in real life. This lesson will help students see the connection between these farm animals and their everyday lives.

Indiana Curricular Standards

• 1.4.2 – Observe and describe that there can be differences, such as size or markings, among the individuals within one kind of plant or animal group
• 1.2.7 – Write/Talk about informational descriptions of a real object, person, place, or event using information from observations. (Core Standard)

ISTE Standards• Research and Information Fluency
• Communication and Collaboration
Assessments
Formative/Summative
• The flow chart creation
• Also, during the exploration and discussion of the website, the students will be observed.
Class discussion after the viewing of the website will be utilized to see if students discovered and retained the main ideas from the moomilk website.

Prior Knowledge
Curricular Knowledge or Skills:
The students have little knowledge of science themes/ideas because they do not do science in first grade; however the students will be able connect with the idea of milk because all of them drink milk at lunch (and perhaps at home in their cereal).
Technology Knowledge: The students have some skills associated with the computer because they all have computer class, as well as many of them have computers at home.

Technology

Internet Resources:
1. http://www.moomilk.com/tour.htm
Hardware:
1. Computer
2. SmartBoard

Software:
1. Microsoft Word (all directions will be in a word document)
2. Internet

Procedure
Opening Questions:

1. Ask students if they had milk today with their breakfast. Do they know where that milk came from? Do any of them have cows at home? How do we get the milk we drink every day?
2. Have students take an online tour to find out the answers to these questions.

Getting the Thoughts Flowing:
1. Have the students open the word document that have the directions for assignment.
2. The instructions will have the student go to www.moomilk.com/tour.htm to watch the tutorial
3. The students will be asked to take notes as they watch the video on the SmartBoard.
4. The students will then be allowed to venture around the moomilk website and play some of the games or do some of the activities.
5. The students will be asked to create a flowchart of milk from the cow to their cereal on Microsoft word.
Differentiated Instruction

ESL
The moomilk website can be translated using Google’s translation feature for the students who require a language other than English. There will be a premade flowchart with minimal Spanish words under pictures.
For intermediate ESL learners, there will be a premade flowchart that they can preview with minimal Spanish words under pictures while they watch the tutorial and venture around the website.

Challenge/Extend
The students who are able to use the internet proficiently will be encouraged to find other websites similar to moomilk and create another flowchart. Or perhaps another type of food (such as cheese or vegetables).

Students will be challenged to view cookbook websites or utilized tangible cookbooks in the room and find recipes that contain milk or something from their newly developed flowcharts.

Special Needs
For students with mobility impairments, rather than having them draw/create a flowchart of milk from the cow to their cereal, we can have premade step cards that the student can try to organize in the correct order. These step cards can be just moved around into the correct order or first, if able, colored and then ordered in the correct steps.
For students who might be unable to read the moomilk website due to vision impairments, we can utilize voice recognition software if available.
If advanced technologies are unavailable, we can utilize partner pairing so that a child with vision difficulties is able to work with a student that can readily view and explain the website.

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