Pacific Salmon:
Reading and Writing Lesson
Grades 3-5
≅100 minutes
Primary Standards
Oregon Arts Standards | TH.1.CR1.3 1. Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama/theater work. |
TH.2.CR2.3 2. Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen group drama/theater work. | |
Oregon English Language Arts Standards | 3.SL.4 With guidance and support, report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace. |
3.SL.6 Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. | |
4.SL.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 level topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. | |
5.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation. |
Supporting Standards
Oregon Science Standards | 3.LS2.1 Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive. |
3.LS4.3 Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. |
Essential Questions
How are humans, salmon, and waterways connected?
How are human activities and climate change impacting salmon habitat?
How can stories help people understand how climate change is affecting the planet?
Learning Outcomes
I can tell a story using appropriate facts
and descriptive details.
I can create improvised stories from the perspective of salmon in their natural environment.
I can use storytelling to share stories about the salmon life cycle, habitat needs, and climate-related threats to salmon.
Agenda
Inquire
Investigate
Inspire
Inquire
≅20 minutes
What do you know about salmon?
Insert student ideas
Salmon Life Cycle
Think-Pair-Share
Explain the life cycle of a salmon.
What are some things salmon might go through on their journey?
What is your favorite salmon story?
insert student answers
Turn and Talk
Have your family or friends told you any stories?
Share the story with your elbow buddy.
How does climate change fit into your salmon story?
How does sharing your story make you feel?
How does thinking about climate change make you feel?
3 important things about salmon
2 solutions for salmon protection
1 thing from a story you have heard
Investigate
≅20 minutes
Guided Visualization
Inspire
≅60 minutes
Story Spine
Once upon a time…
Every day…
One day…
Because of this…
Until…
Now…
Once upon a time…
Who?
Where?
Every day…
Describe what is always happening, a usual day
One day…
Introduce a problem.
What happened?
Because of this…
Who/what is affected?
What happened?
Why is it a problem?
Until…
Describe a change or a solution to the problem.
Who is involved?
What did they do?
Ever since then…
Explain the new normal or the result of the solution.
How did it work?
Who benefitted?
Now…
Present the moral(s) or lesson of the story.
What was learned?
What changed?
Write your own stream story!
How does sharing your story make you feel?
How does thinking about climate change make you feel?
How can we share our stream stories?
insert student answers
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Creators & Collaborators
Tana Shepard
Authors
Archibong Akpan, PhD
Scientist Reviewer
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