Soils, Rocks, and Landforms

The Unit I will be teaching is Soils, Rocks, and Landforms and it will be held during Science class.  The goal for the students is to explore and understand how materials are Natural Resources and have the students describe resources as renewable and nonrenewable. The strategies that will be used during the Unit are retaining information from past classes, being able to write complete ideas, collaborating ideas with other students to come up with a solution, and comprehension. Some of the learning activities involved in this unit are:

• Drawing a Concept Map

• Categorizing renewable and non-Renewable resources

• Interactive activities: Response cards, popsicle sticks

• Pre/Post assessment 

Resources for caregivers related to the Unit topic:

Children’s Books:

1. “Our Natural Resources” by Jennifer Prior

2. “The Amazon Rainforest: One of Earth's Largest Natural Resources - Children's Books about Forests Grade 4 - Children's Environment & Ecology Books” by Baby Professor

Websites for extra practice and help:

1. https://www.brainpop.com/games/sortifynaturalresources/

2. https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/play/

At-home activity: 

1. Students will go home and look around the inside of their home and in their backyard for any natural resources.

2. The students will bring in some of the resources they found from home. 

School activity:

1. The students will come to class and set out their resources from home on their desks.

2. The students will share with the class what they discovered.

3. As a class, the students will talk about if each other's resources from home are renewable or nonrenewable. 

Conclusion: 

1. The students will complete the matching game created by the teacher: The students have to put the resources as renewable or nonrenewable.

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About me.

Hi everyone! My name is Megan Klosterman and I am an Elementary/Middle major with a specialization in social studies.  I go to Frostburg State University and this is my senior year of college.  I am from Frederick, Maryland where I have lived in the same house with my family since I was born.  I have one older sister who recently got married, so we added a brother-in-law to the family.  I have two cats, they both are boys and their names are Nike and Simba, Nike is 14 and Simba is 1.  A couple of hobbies I have are going skiing, during the winter I love to grab a few friends and go to the slopes, another hobby I have is taking hikes during the summers and visiting new trails and beautiful places with a scenic view.   A little about my past experiences with children and students is, during High School, I took two Child Development courses and got my 48-hour certificate.  Secondly, I have nannied for a few families in the past 3 years.  One of the families was a family of 5 from the ages 6 months- 9 years old.  I usually spent time with them and made sure they were safe and having a good time, I would make them breakfast and lunch, and sometimes I would help their Mom with schoolwork because they were homeschooled.  Another family was a family of 3 and it was during COVID-19 so I helped them with their online school while their parents were at work.  I did this for about 4 months so I got to learn a lot about how teachers went about some of the online work.  Lastly, I am really excited to get to be a part of this class.  My goals are to help these students be the best students they can be, pick out these student's strengths and weaknesses, and I want to create a positive and welcoming environment in the classroom. I am hoping to build relationships with the students and gain the trust of students, parents, and other faculty members.