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ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITY
Instructional Procedures ENGAGE
1) Prepare prior to lesson a KWL (What do you know, What do you want to learn, and What did you learn). Title the KWL The Reasons Why Columbus Wanted to Sail. 2) Ask the students Why do you think Columbus wanted to set sail? list about three responses under the K. 3) Then ask the students What do you want to know about Columbus journey? list three student responses under the W.
EXPLORE
1) Read a picture book about Columbus and his journey to the New World. 2) Discuss needing help and helping others. 3) Relate to how Columbus needed others to help him with his travel. Emphasize how King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella eventually helped Columbus.
2008, TESCCC Template
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ELABORATE
1) Ask "Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in fourteen hundred ninety two. The question is - Was Columbus smart about safety? 2) Ask Can you imagine what it would be like to live on a crowded school bus for eight long months? Columbus and his men had a little more room than that, but not much. 3) Discuss how a voyage on a ship during Columbus time would be different from a road trip on a school bus in todays time. Use the following website for more information on Columbus ships. http://events.askacop.org/columbusday. html (14) (A)
EVALUATE
1) The teacher will evaluate the students knowledge of Christopher Columbus life and voyage during the discussion throughout the lesson.
EXTENSION
1) Make newspaper sailor hats. See website for instructions. http://www.dltkkids.com/crafts/columbus/newspaper_s ailors_hats.htm http://www.dltkkids.com/crafts/columbus/mespyglass.ht m
2) Make an easy spyglass telescope out of a paper towel tube. See website for instructions. With our toilet paper tube telescopes we sing: Sung to: "Row row row your boat" Sail, Sail, Sail your ship Sail it night and day. Look for land, look for land All along the Way. When someone points and yells, "I see land" we all stop singing and look. That child describes what the land looks like and what might be on the shore.
3) Have students use construction paper to make a brown ship with white sails. Students can tear blue paper to make the ocean. Students can make one ship or all three. Students can label the ships.
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