Rings, Ripples, and Echoes UBD (Understanding By Design) Framework: K – 2nd Grade

Desired Results

Goals of the Program
Students will...
•	Enrich their understanding of a place through inquiry.
•	Experience National Parks as places for learning and recreation and develop a personal connection with their local National Parks.
•	Learn about the natural patterns that shape the Muir Woods habitat.

Transfer
•	Recognize patterns in a healthy habitat.
•	Engage in scientific inquiry.

Meaning
Essential Question:

What do living things need for a healthy habitat?

Enduring Understandings: Students will understand that... 

•	Living things need a healthy habitat to survive.
•	Individuals and communities can help protect and preserve natural environments.

Acquisition
Students will know...

•	The needs of living things at Muir Woods.
•	The indications of a healthy habitat.

Students will be able to...

•	Recognize the patterns of a healthy habitat.
•	Identify the needs of living things.
•	Understand how individuals and communities can help protect natural habitats.

Evidence
Students will show their learning by…
•	Creating a drawing of patterns in a healthy habitat.
Or
•	Use different materials to make a part of a plant or animal that could help them survive, grow, and meet their needs in a redwood forest.

CA Next Generation Science Standards
K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive.
1-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.
2-LS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

CA Common Core Standards
Speaking and Listening:
1. K, 1.1 & 1.2: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led).
Writing:
W.3.K: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event, include details.
W.3.1 & W.3.2: Write narratives to develop events, including details.

California History-Social Science Content Standards
 
K.6.3: Understand how people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today. 

1.5.2: Understand the ways in which American Indians have helped define Californian and American culture. 

1.5.3: Compare the traditions of the varied cultures. 

2.4.1: Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including land and water resources.

Learning Plan
Summary of Key Learning Events and Instruction
•	Pre-trip Preparation: Teacher facilitates activities 1 - 3 to introduce students to the vocabulary and environment of Muir Woods. activities 1 - 3 are found in the teacher notes.
•	Muir Woods Field Trip: Students are invited to use their senses while investigating the Essential Question in the woods through applied inquiry methods. Students record and explore the characteristics of a healthy and unhealthy habitat.
•	Educators and adult chaperones accompany the students in the investigation of the redwood forest.
•	Post-trip: Students demonstrate what they have learned by completing the post-visit classroom activities found in the guide.

Other resources:
Save the Redwoods League
https://www.savetheredwoods.org/