Folktales about Wisdom and Cleverness (rubric attached below and student work): If you are up against an enemy who is big and strong and you need to save your life, how are you going to do it?
Students picked an invention, did some research, thought about the impact of the invention, and created an ebook using Book Creator. We used the fun app called Pettson's Inventions to hook the students into thinking about inventions. Then we had them research the who/when/where of the invention, and create a book with a thoughtful introduction, analysis of the problem the invention solved and the way it changed people's lives, and a conclusion. Then synching the iPads, we created a bookshelf of inventions books!
Information Detectives Unit: Level 1 (sections of the library) to Level 2 (using catalog) to Level 3 (using library website as a portal to the Internet).
Unit 2:
How can you use your keyboarding skills to create visual (and correctly punctuated) poetry? See 2nd gr Unit 2 for updated curriculum map. This one is an older version.
Unit 3: How do you figure out what an author is talking about if he doesn’t tell you everything?
Making inferences from excerpts/comics/poems/primary docs & paintings
Unit 4: Reading informational texts/thinking/taking two-column notes about a country (see Grade 5)
SHORT RESEARCH PROJECT ON AFRICA: GENERATING QUESTIONS
Folktales about Wisdom and Cleverness (rubric attached below and student work):
If you are up against an enemy who is big and strong and you need to save your life, how are you going to do it?
Culture and folktales:
- Folktales from different cultures: Note-taking & paragraph writing activity
display culture.docx
- Details
- Download
- 119 KB
- Science integration
Students picked an invention, did some research, thought about the impact of the invention, and created an ebook using Book Creator. We used the fun app called Pettson's Inventions to hook the students into thinking about inventions. Then we had them research the who/when/where of the invention, and create a book with a thoughtful introduction, analysis of the problem the invention solved and the way it changed people's lives, and a conclusion. Then synching the iPads, we created a bookshelf of inventions books!CURRICULUM MAPS 2010-2011
3rd_ gr_Libr_Curr_Map_Overview_2010-2011.doc
- Details
- Download
- 63 KB
Curriculum overview for the yearOrientation lesson for 3-5th
Information Detectives Unit: Level 1 (sections of the library) to Level 2 (using catalog) to Level 3 (using library website as a portal to the Internet).
Unit 2:
How can you use your keyboarding skills to create visual (and correctly punctuated) poetry? See 2nd gr Unit 2 for updated curriculum map. This one is an older version.
Unit 2.5: Practicing Math online
Unit 3: How do you figure out what an author is talking about if he doesn’t tell you everything?
Making inferences from excerpts/comics/poems/primary docs & paintings
Unit 4: Reading informational texts/thinking/taking two-column notes about a country (see Grade 5)
Unit 5:What are the different point of views of Deaf and CODAs?
Booktalks and narratives from point of view of Deaf/CODA people
Unit 6: How is the story told? The clues behind the different kinds of folktales
Types of folktales
Shares favorites with others (Info Fluency 3.2.1)
Unit 6: Digital Citizenship (Info Fluency 3.3.3)
Unit 7: Poetry/Multimedia presentations of poems (Info Fluency 3.2.5, 1.6.3)
Interactive poetry links
Unit 8: Booktalks: Fantasy/Poetry
Other lessons/ideas: