The Monster Exchange Project Plan

Grade Level: 2

Time: 15 lessons (depends on the teacher)

Performance Indicators and NETS

New York State Performance Indicators Addressed

NETS Performance Indicators Addressed

Reading Identify main ideas and supporting details in informational texts Read unfamiliar texts to collect data, facts, and ideas Locate information in a text that is needed to solve a problem Evaluate the content by identifying the author’s purpose important and unimportant details Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using context clues, dictionaries, and other classroom resources Use graphic organizers to record significant details about characters and events in stories Identify purpose for reading Use computer software to support reading Use self-monitoring strategies, such as rereading and cross-checking Read and understand written directions Writing Present information clearly in a variety of oral and written forms such as summaries, paraphrases, brief reports, stories, posters, and charts. Use the process of pre-writing, drafting, revising, and proofreading (the "writing process") to produce well-constructed informational texts. Observe basic writing conventions, such as correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, as well as sentence and paragraph structures appropriate to written forms.

Create Original Products Generate Ideas Develop Processes Use a message boards Connect with people across the world Create a Learning Plan Organize Information Organize their Time

 

 

 

Trail of Thoughts

Lesson Objectives

 

 

Lesson #1 Draw 1 monsters from the Monster Gallery on paper. Assessment: Check off each detail drawn with a partner Link	Lesson #2 Two people will draw a monster on paper and compare that monster with two other people (who are drawing the same monster) Assessment: Color similarities in green on the drawings and Color differences in red.	Lesson #3 Build Your Own Monster Online Link	Lesson #4 Draw/Paint own Monster on paper and learn how to scan	Lesson #5 Create a crazy monster story using an online word magnets web page Link
Lesson #6 Organize details of the monster with a concept map using: Read-Write-Think Webbing Tool	Lesson #7 Organize details from the Webbing Tool into an outline using: Read-Write-Think - NoteTaking Tool Copy/paste outline into teacher message board	Lesson #8 Rewrite outline on teacher message board into a paragraph	Lesson #9 Edit paragraphs	Lesson #10 Share monster paragraphs with an in-class partner who will then draw/paint the monster based on the description
Lesson #11 Revise paragraphs based on drawn/painted monsters (if necessary)	Lesson #12 Draw/paint a monster form the partner class (partner class is in the same grade level, in the same school)	Lesson #13 Paint/Draw partner (out of district) school's monsters	Lesson #14 Partner Class Monster Lunch - kids from each class eat lunch with their parnters from the same school and share original, redrawn monsters from the same school and redrawn monsters from their out-of-school parnter	Lesson #15 Skype visit with out-of-school partner school

 

 

 

Assessments