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The Mostly True Story of Jack + STEAM BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill. It bundles The Mostly True Story of Jack Novel Study with STEAM packs about designing and making a book and a science investigation about corn.
ABOUT THE NOVEL: Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . .
When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for quite a long time. When he arrives, he begins to make actual friends for the first time in his life-but the town bully beats him up and the richest man in town begins to plot Jack’s imminent, and hopefully painful, demise. It’s up to Jack to figure out why suddenly everyone cares so much about him. Back home he was practically… invisible.
The Mostly True Story of Jack is a stunning debut novel about things broken, things put back together, and finding a place to belong.
The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Witch’s Boy Novel Study.
ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (scars, parrot, San Francisco, Iowa, corn, grain elevator, bioluminescence, seeds), and STEAM enrichment activities where children investigate, design, make, and evaluate their own books and design their own science investigation about corn and seeds with variables according to Key Stage 2 Design Technology, Science, and Art and Design objectives.
Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download.
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Power Up Topic Plan with Computer Science, Chronology, and Writing Tasks
This BUNDLE brings together different SIX learning outcomes from the shop related to video games and video game controllers:
* DESIGN A VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER USING MAKEYMAKEY
* WRITING AN INFORMATION TEXT ABOUT MAKEYMAKEY
* EXPLANATION TEXT ABOUT CHANGES IN VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS
* DESIGN YOUR OWN VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS
* DESIGN YOUR OWN VIDEO GAME ON SCRATCH
* NARRATIVE WRITING ABOUT VIDEO GAMES
The download is a zip file of the different individual packs, each with digital files for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw.
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Kensuke's Kingdom Thematic Bundle
In the past, I have used the resources in this bundle while doing a study of Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but the resources can be used independently as well with some slight modifications. This bundle includes four different resources where students will:
Shipwrecked! – Narrative (40 pages)
Island Flora & Fauna – Informative (35 pages)
Field Guide of Island Organisms (49 pages)
Survival Invention – Explanation (66 pages)
The pack includes different graphic organisers, resources for lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and rubrics. Lessons and objectives are aligned with objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England and has links to the Common Core.
Digital copies of the files for editing and sharing on digital platforms are available with download.
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All Things littleBits STEAM BUNDLE
Engage children in circuits, product design, and the scientific method in a fun and meaningful way with littleBits.
Within the zip file are six different packs from my shop, which can all also be purchased separately:
1. Working Scientifically with littleBits for Years 3 and 4
2. Working Scientifically with littleBits for Year 5 and 6
3. Mission to Mars: Design a Mars Rover with littleBits
4. Vikings: Battle Modifications with littleBits
5. Digital Stickers for Assessment with littleBits
6. Design a Hat with a Job Using littleBits (STEAM)
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Mission to Mars Thematic Unit Plan
This 197-page bundle includes six different resources where students will:
Design a mission badge (e-textiles)
Study of the U.S. space program’s chronology (explanation text)
Learn about ecosystems while considering what they would need to survive on Mars (persuasive text)
Study previous rover designs before designing and evaluating one using littleBits
Research significant people and events to the U.S. space program (primary and secondary sources)
Write a short story about a mission to Mars and/or space travel using shifts in formality with flashbacks (narrative writing)
The pack includes different graphic organizers, as well as resources for lower ability pupils.
In the past, I’ve used these resources during a unit on Mars, but they could be used as a stand alone learning outcomes, as well.