Unit 3: Stories

By: Kylie Musgrove, Morgan Nuetzmann, Megan

Branstetter, Gabbi Giordano, Eugenia Nathan, &
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Students use background knowledge from other

subjects to create a postcard from space

Students will create an image on the front of the

card with a variety of materials to show their
adventure through space

On the back of the postcard, students will write a

story about a journey they took to space using
figurative language

Another idea for this would be astronaut journal to

create a day by day story about an adventure in
space, including different pictures

Language Arts
Students create a sky
journal after observing
clouds outside at the
beginning of the lesson
and reading the book It
Looked Like Spilt Milk.
Students will write
about what cloud
shapes they saw in the
sky and create that
shape using cotton
balls. They would tell
stories about why the
clouds were those
shapes and what shape
they would want to be if
they were a cloud.

Students are
assigned an
emotion. They will
then illustrate what
their emotion looks
like. Students will
then write a short
story about why that
character feels the
way they do and
explain what that
emotion looks like.

Math
Students use different colors to
indicate those who live in their house.
This not only tells a story of their
family, but they can then count how
many people or animals live in each
household. They can also do similar
projects to this like drawing a house
and counting the number of windows,
cars in driveway, etc.

Students have stories given to them

about different people and what
they have. They are then to solve
the problem based on the story/
situation given.

Students roll a random number generator and draw

the shape that they land on. After they have a complete
body then they will write a story about their monster
they have.

Science
This lesson will be most beneficial if it is
spread over 2-3 days.
We first begin this lesson, on the first
day, by talking about what students see
in the sky during the nighttime. After that
discussion, the class watches The Story
of the Solar System to learn about the
Milky Way and solar system and
compare it to what they already knew.
On the second day, the students are split
into groups and are assigned their
project. These groups must create
posters that represent facts that they
learned from the video with a 3D
representation of the planet they are
discussing.

For the final day, the

students display their
boards and give a short
presentation on what they
learned about the solar
system.
The main theme for this
project is for students to
identify and research facts
about our solar system and
how the planets are all
connected.

Science
Students will first listen to the story Fossils Tell
of Long Ago as a read aloud. The story gives
them background information on the story
behind a fossil. The book may answer important
questions for the student such as, How is it
created? What is it made of and who made it?
How did it get there?
Then Students will be given clay and various
small animals to create their own fossils. They
will place the animals firmly in the clay until
there is an impression. The next day the class
will go back and look at the dried fossil remains.
They may share their own fossil story related to
the animal they chose and their finished fossil
with the class.

Social Studies-Geography
Student will read about landform in a region.
Watch Pixars Lava short film.
Student will be split into groups- each group will be given a
landform to research.
Each group will be given the time to create a short video,
personifying the landform they were assigned. This can be
done using iMovie, or easily with lego movie. The movie
should portray facts that have to do with the landform
(location, peoples relation to landform, and its relevance to
the region).

Resources
- Language arts:
- http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/wish-you-were-here-lesson-plan/?
utm_source=pinterest&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2014_evergreen_ahalogy#_a5y_
p=3412266
- http://missradka.blogspot.com
- http://tekyteach.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-and-more-clouds.html

- Math:
- http://www.kidscount1234.com/glyphs.html
- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-ULTIMATE-Printable-Math-Pack-1068596