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- Web-Based
Thematic Unit:
- Tuck
Everlasting
- Teacher
Resources
This web-based thematic unit has a wide range of
activities for grades
4-6 On this page you'll find an overview of
the unit as well as lesson outlines and links to
student activities.
Establishing the Learning
Environment
This project can be implemented some of the
following ways:
Read the book aloud to the entire
class.
Read the book individually as a class.
Read the book in reading groups.
Read the book along with cassette tape.
Read the book at the same time as another
class at a remote site.
Many activities can become as part of a
learning center that contains books, print
materials, real objects, a computer, and
workspace. Consider creating a display that
contains a Tuck Everlasting bulletin
board and a table display with a purchased rock
fountain or one made by the whole class, music
box, art books of impressionist artists,
pictures of sunsets and sunrises, old and new
family photos, a Ferris wheel made out of tinker
toys, and books on friendship.
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Resources
- Collect a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and
reference print resources.
- Organize computer software.
(Greetings
Workshop)
Technology Setup
- Schedule time for computer lab
to use internet; schedule check out for video camera and
tripod; and see if there's a tape available for the
camera; schedule time to use digital camera and make sure
there's a programmed disk ready to use.
Classroom Management and Activity
Guidelines
Classroom activities have been provided as part of this
thematic unit. A lesson overview has been provided for each
activity. For each lesson, you'll find a set of benchmarks,
a suggested timing of the lesson, specific pages connecting
the book to the activities, performance assessments, and
other activity ideas. Each activity page contains an
introduction, task, process and resources, project
guidelines, and a conclusion.
Technology access issues: Please modify the
activities to fit the needs of your class and access to
technology. For example, each activity indicates the need
for individual, small group, or whole class work. If you
have limited access to technology, you may want to complete
many of the activities as a large group using one computer
and a large monitor.
Water
Fountain - Activity 1
- Overview:
Students will create a 3-D representation of the
water fountain and explain its "effect" in the
story.
- Benchmark
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about story
elements and information in texts
- Understands the relationship between cause and
effect
- Timing:Complete activity after reading Chapter
7.
- Performance Assessments: 3-D
Model and Cause/Effect Rubric
- Keeping
Secrets - Activity 2
- Overview:
Students will create a card and write a letter to
Winnie and give advise on how to handle the problem she
is facing in the story of whether she should tell about
the spring or keep it a secret.
- Benchmarks
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about story
elements and information in texts
- Know sensory words, figurative language and their
effect on a reader
- Inferring motives, traits, feelings of
characters
- Timing: Complete activity after reading
Chapter 12
- Book Connections: Chapter 7 and Chapter
12
- Performance Assessments: Friendship
Card Rubric
Never-Ending
Water Cycle - Activity
3
- Overview:
Students will visualize the
water cycle and/or other topics relating to the water
cycle by creating a poster supported with facts, details,
illustrations, and examples from internet
sources.
- Benchmarks
- Summarize and paraphrase information from text
- Summarizing details from website
- Thinking about what has been read
- Paraphrasing
- Selecting important information
- Organize ideas for oral presentations
- Speaking skills
- Graphic organizers
- Using visual aids to make presentation
- Posters
- Gathering information
- Cooperative work skills
- Uses strategies to edit writing
- Capitalization, Organization,
Punctuation, Spelling (COPS)
- Timing:
Complete activity after
reading Chapter 7 and Chapter 12
- Book Connections:
Tuck's discussion on page
61-63.
- Performance Assessments: Poster
Rubric
and Written
Summary Rubric
Conclusion
Study the evaporation of
water and the water cycle further with some classroom
experiments and have students make a family tree for their
family by trying to take it back as far as they have the
information for. (Ask parents for assistance with
this.)
Developed by Crista
Ashcraft
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