CONTENT CONNECTION: Welcome to Night

TEKS Connection: §112.12. Science, Grade 1, Beginning with School Year 2010-2011.

(b) Knowledge and skills.

(10) Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:

*(A) investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats;

Activity: Complete Graphic Organizer

Students could complete the following graphic organizer

after the teacher reads the poem to the class. She may

ask questions along the way to prompt student’s

knowledge about nocturnal animals. Students could

complete the following organizer with their table.

NocturnalNon-Nocturnal

Examples

of

different

animals:

Characteristics: