Environment Projects

We Need Your Help!

(Click on the title of this blog to visit our class envionment page. You can use this link to get to links in order to find information on your environment)

On Monday we began a new science unit about environments. The term environment is defined as the objects, organisms, and conditions that influence an organism. We will be investigating the environmental factors which make up different areas on the Earth.

Over the next five weeks we will grow plants in terrarium environment and experiment with different environmental factors. As a class, we will brainstorm environmental factors that are present in different environments such as plants and animals.

In small groups, students will work together to become an expert on one environment. They will read books, observe pictures, and collect facts about a certain environment. Each group will be compiling information on: water, human effects, living and nonliving factors, consumers, decomposers, producers, and micro and macro organisms in their environment.

During the week of May 12th the small groups will use a large refrigerator box to create a 3-dimenstional display of their environment.

As you can see, this is going to be a GREAT undertaking. We are going to need your help. At home students will need your help in collecting many items for their environment display. Here is a list of items that students need to collect for their display:

-Books
-Pictures
-Magazines with pictures to cut out
-Photos
-Calendar page pictures
-Stuffed animals that would be in their environment
-Fabrics or craft supplies to make things for their environment
-Notes from the internet about their environment
-Anything that they think might be helpful in their environment display
-Notes from books or people about their environment
-Tempera Paint for the background

Help will also be needed in the classroom when students are putting their environments together. We will need at least 5 parents on each of these days and times.

5-12 Monday 10:00 – 12:00
5-13 Tuesday 10:00 – 11:30
5-14 Wednesday 1:00 – 3:00
5-15 Thursday 1:00 – 3:00
5-16 Friday 10:00 – 12:00

This learning experience has the opportunity of being unforgettable. Without help from all of you it will be very difficult to pull off! Please let us know which days you are available to help.

Thank you,
Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Sheber, and Miss Tracy

Table 1 - Ocean
Table 2 - Desert
Table 3 - Savanna
Table 4 - Rain Forest
Table 5 - Artic and Antartic / Tundra