Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process

Materials and Technology

Printouts

Websites

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Score One For The Sloths by Helen Lester (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
  
  
• Animal Specialists by Nathan Aaseng (Lerner Publications, 1987)
  
  
• "Sloth" in World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, p. 121 (World Book, Inc., 2000)

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PRINTOUTS

Information Wheel

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WEBSITES

• Three-Toed Sloth
  

  Pease note that there are advertisements on this site.

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PREPARATION

• Gather resources listed in the Resources section.
  
  
• The diagram of a sloth can either be projected directly from a computer or printed out and made into a transparency for overhead projection.
  
  
• Create an information wheel by drawing a large circle on poster board, following the model Information Wheel provided:
  
  
  1. Divide the circle into 3 large pie pieces. The three sections should be labeled, each with a different question:
     
     
     • Where does it live?
       
       
     • What does it look like?
       
       
     • What does it do?
       
     
     
  2. "Topic: Sloth" should be printed in large letters above the wheel.

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