Title – The Incredible Yuma Bat and Clapper Rail – Writing Components Organization

By – Brenda E. Wilson

Primary Subject – Science

Secondary Subjects – Language Arts

Grade Level – 6

Period of Time: One-half month unit of study

Purpose: to introduce to the students the wonderful world of Bats and Clapper Rails.

Materials: Flannel material, feathers, glue, computer for contest and printing stories.

Language Arts Standards:

Concept 2: Organization

Organization addresses the structure of the writing and integrates the central meaning and patterns that hold the piece together.

PO 6. Create an ending that provides a sense of resolution or closure.

Objective: P C The students will be able to show a resolution that bat and clapper rails are creatures of similar yet different characteristics and that they come together in the oddest places and times.

Anticipatory Set: They will also be able to formulate the conclusion to their project with a presentation on power point and with an enactment of their history research by demonstrating the importance of preserving the bat and clapper rail species.

This is the final day with all groups coming together in the form of a contest, an enactment of the flying Bats and Clapper Rails at the Yuma West Wetlands Site what they observed each specie moving and gathering food. They will have made costumes of Bats and Clapper Rails from flannel material and feathers from aviaries that they went to in the sites for the field trips.

Accommodations: There will be the same assignments in Braille, and Sign Language charts.

* Abbreviations for Cognitive = C, Assistive = A, Psychomotor = P

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