Animals in Winter Webquest

1. Animals in WinterWebquest Designed for students in 3rd Grade By Mandy Bishop

2. Let’s Begin! We live in Northern New York which gets verycold in the winter! What do you do to prepare for the cold winter? Do you: • Wear warm clothes? • Heat your house? • Eat warm foods? • Use blankets? • What do animals do to prepare for the winter?

3. What We’ll Learn During the winter, animals do one of three things to prepare themselves: • Hibernate • Migrate • Adapt After we study Animals in Winter we will: • define Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation • make a chart about Animals in Winter • write an Animals in Winter fact piece

4. Let’s Get to Work! Northern New York has many animals. They all have to prepare for winter.  In this Webquest we: • Gather information about              -Hibernation               -Migration               -Adaptation • Make a chart of what certain animals do in the winter • Write a "fact-finder" writing piece about Animals in Winter • Share our fact-finder writing pieces with other students

5. Let’s Explore Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation! Throughout the next four slides you will learn A LOT of information about Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation. PRINT the following worksheet and TAKE NOTES on the information that is given to you! *This will help you with your fact-finder writing piece! W O R K S H E E T

6. Let’s Explore Hibernation! Look at the following website to gather information about Hibernation. http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/winter/win2.html

7. Let’s Explore Migration! Look at the following website to gather information about Migration. http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=wak-302005%20&article_id=75&chapter_id=1&chapter_title=Animals&article_title=All_About_Animal_Migration Don’t forget to take notes!

8. Let’s Explore Adaptation! Look at the following website to gather information about Adaptation. http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=4750

9. Read A Little More… Please read the following document about different animals in winter. ***Take notes as they will help you with your writing piece! READ ME……READ ME

10. Let’s Share You are now ready to begin you Animals in Winter writing piece. Use your notes from the websites and readings to help you along! Use the following link to get the directions: ANIMALS IN WINTER WRITING PIECE DIRECTIONS Remember: • Your writing pieces will be displayed in the hallway for everyone to read! • As a class we will share each other's charts on Animals in Winter to compare Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation.  • You are being graded on a rubric. To see the rubric, click HERE

11. Let’s Check Let’s find out what you have learned! Please print out and take the test that is linked below! TAKE THE TEST Hand the test in to Mrs. Bishop when you are finished!

12. Let’s Have Some Fun! Here are links to animal sounds that you may listen to when your writing piece and test are both completed.

13. Teacher Notes THIS PAGE IS FOR TEACHERS ONLY! Students who get “caught” viewing this page will get an automatic “0” on their assignments! • Link for Animals in Winter Test Answers • Link for Animals in Winter Writing Piece Rubric