Third graders are immersed in the study of pandas. Research happens in a variety of ways. Students watch videos of pandas from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and take notes in their panda research journal. Some of the observations include noticing how panda cubs play with each other and communicate and how often the pandas eat bamboo. They also note the part of the bamboo plant that pandas prefer. The following is a link to a video from Chengdu. Chengdu Research Base-Panda video and another video from the National Geographic Site about the Giant Panda Breeding Center https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/0000015f-302f-d805-a95f-ba7ffd630000?source=searchvideo
Books and articles are also a way that third grade students are locating information about pandas. Students have learned to use the contents page, index, glossary, headings and pictures to find the parts of the book that will answer the questions that students have about pandas. They discuss their findings in small groups and then record information in their own words in a journal and a packet about pandas that is divided into categories that include: diet, habitat, body, bamboo, life cycle and conservation.
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