Animal Research and Giant Tongues
My 2nd graders just completed their Animal Research Projects as our expository writing project this quarter. They turned out so cute!! We pulled a lot of the ideas from the "Not Your Average Animal Research Paper" unit from Lesson Plan SOS . To begin, we pulled *tons* of 2nd grade appropriate books about animals from the school library. {Love my Media Specialist - she was so a-maz-ing-ly helpful during this process!! I came back to class with about 50 different interesting animals for the kids to choose from!} The kids did a gallery walk with the books, previewing lots of interesting texts to select the animal they would like to learn more about. Since I had such a wide array of animals, we didn't have many issues; I had 2 girls who both wanted giraffes, but one of them decided to study Harp Seals instead. Anywhoo, then the modeling began. As a class, we studied the Giant Anteater using this book . I modeled how to use non-fiction text features, like headi