DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 180
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
Clue/Note 4: The place is supposed to be clean, so you aren’t allowed to pollute.
Clue/Note 5: Cutting down the trees could kill the animals
Clue/Note 6: You shouldn’t touch hummingbird’s nests because the babies will die.
Clue/Note 6: Nature is supposed to stay clean. He/She found a plan. What plan? (Have
students guess what plan was found.)
Clue/Note 7: Roads destroy the animals’ habitat and crossing the can kill them.
Clue/Note 8: The water must be clean – polluted water is dangerous for animals.
After reading HOTS
Ask:
What do you think happened in the park last night?
Do you think the Green Team and their friends will be able to solve this mystery? (Accept all
logical answers.)
2. Let’s Practice! – (HOTS Cause and Result) (page 136)
Have the students complete the table in their notebooks.
When they have finished, go over the answers with
them.
Curriculum:
P: Students will produce a short
Answer Key:
piece of coherent writing.
1. Someone disturbed the hummingbirds’ nests
2. So the water is polluted.
3. Someone cut down trees and plants,
4. Any other logical cause and result from the text.
3. Let’s Write (HOTS – Compare and Contrast)
Curriculum:
AI: Students will extract
information from visual data,
such as a timetable.
(page 136)
Say and ask:
Look at the photos that MoCa took on pages
120-121.
What do you see in them? (a bird’s nest with baby birds before and empty nest after, a
forest before and cut down trees after, wolves crossing the roads,
a highway without animals)
How are these pictures similar or different? (They are pictures of Lakeview Park. They are
different because the picture on pages 120-121 is before the animals disappear (the habitat
is unchanged) and the picture on pages 134-135 is after the animals disappear (change in
habitat; footprints, garbage in the lake, cut trees)
4. Word Tree: POLLUTE (page 136)
Explain to the students that many words have different forms. The word "pollute" is one
such word.
Curriculum:
AL: Students will compare different
Send the students back to the text to find three
language elements of English, such
more words that have the root "pollute" in them.
as tense and gender, to their mother
To help them, do the first one together: pollution
tongue.
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