Spring Pussy Willow Literacy Activities | PBL Design Inspired by Nature

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Asa Jomard - Think Dive
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15 pages
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Looking for a resource to inspire your students to explore the magic of Spring? This resource focuses on investigating one of the first signs of Spring. By “slowly” watching how the furry catkins appear your students will learn how to look for patterns in nature. Examining the Polar willow with a focus on solving a design challenge is an engaging science activity. This resource also includes poetry writing and literacy activities.

This resource has been prepared so that your students can use it on digital devices. I have selected suitable slides for you, you need to insert text boxes and you can also add instructions for your students.

Contact me at maliasa@live.com if you have any questions, thanks.

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This engaging Pussy Willow package contains:

1. Facts about Pussy willows

2. Describe a pussy willow

3. Diary of a bud - observations of how they grow

4. Pussy Willow Detective - look for patterns and pollen

5. How to protect the pussy willow trees or shrubs?

6. Pussy Willow Shape Poem - be inspired by the shape of branches

7. Write an ending to a poem by Cicely M. Barker - Pussy Willow Fairy

8. Author and illustrator text - Cicely M. Barker

9. Write interesting things about Cicely M. patternsatBarker and draw her clothes

10. Biomimicry - Polar willow - design challenge

11. Craft ideas

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
NGSSK-2-ETS1-2
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
NGSS1-LS1-1
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. Examples of human problems that can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists by mimicking turtle shells, acorn shells, and animal scales; stabilizing structures by mimicking animal tails and roots on plants; keeping out intruders by mimicking thorns on branches and animal quills; and, detecting intruders by mimicking eyes and ears.

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