Scenario Mission

     Imagine that you are a teacher.  You have your own classroom of twenty students.  You have just finished a lesson on Halloween and your next lesson will be about Thanksgiving.  Before you begin the Thanksgiving lesson you will have your students draw a special picture for school's Fall Festival.
    Before you give the students their assignment you will create a sample picture.  This will help your students to understand what is expected of them.  You have decided to ask the students to draw a picture depicting at least one element of fall.  They can draw anything from pumpkins to pilgrims.  This is a very special project because everyone's fall pictures will be displayed at the Fall Festival.
    It is now your job to draw the example for your students. Remember to include at least one element of fall, but you can use more if you like.  Use this topic page to help tickle your creative bones.  Web sites like PumpkinNook will help with your mission.  Good Luck!
 
 

1)  Exploring the wonderful web sites above and  PumpkinNook
2)  As you are visiting the web sites begin to think about the fall images you want to draw for your Fall Festival picture.
3)  Start work on drawing your masterpiece.
4)  Give the drawing to your teacher.  Make sure you are able to explain your drawing.  Your teacher will put your picture on the Internet. You might even be asked to share your drawing with the class.
 
 

 TopicQuest Lesson Plan

Now that you are probably an expert on dinosaurs, you are going on a very important mission! 

Imagine that you are a paleontologist, and you have been chosen to take a trip around the world looking for dinosaur remains.  On your trip, you find the remains of a dinosaur, but when you piece them together for display, you have trouble identifying which dinosaur you discovered.  Luckily, your friends can help you.  

List clues about your dinosaur so that they can correctly identify your dinosaur from your description.  You can describe their bone structure, features, size, height, size of footprints found beside the remains, or any other clue that you feel would help your peers identify your dinosaur.  To help you learn more about dinosaurs in order to give really helpful clues, visit any of the preceeding links, and you can visit Dinosaur Worlds for additional help.  

Good luck, and "happy hunting."

Step 2:  As you explore, think about which dinosaur you're going to describe.  You may take notes or draw pictures if you need to.

Step 3:  List some facts about your dinosaur, and draw a picture of it; your picture will help you and your peers correctly identify the dinosaur.

Step 4:  Read your clues aloud, and share your picture with your friends. Good Luck.  I know you can do it!
 

 TopicQuest Lesson Plan

Two students in Mrs.Washnock's third grade class are going on a trip this weekend.  One students will go to Romania and the other to Japan.  The students can take along a friend.  Their friends do not know anything about Romania and Japan and are wondering what clothes, shoes, hats, etc. they should bring along on their trip.  The friend of the student who is going to Japan would also like to know what Japanese kids her age will look like.

The students need to visit the THE WEATHER CHANNEL to find the weather forecast for the weekend and write a letter to their friends telling them what to pack.

The student who is going to Japan needs to visit KIDS WEB JAPAN so that she can either describe or draw a picture in her letter to let her friend know what kids like her look like in Japan.

                         Have a great trip!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to locate different wild animals in the East African savanna and choose an animal to promote as the "Wild Thing of the Year".

1. After visiting Web site about Africa, at Let's Go!: Around the World, students will identify one of the animals they learned about as worthy of being the Wild Thing of the Year. 

2. Students will draw the animal they would like to promote.

3. Beneath their picture, they will list three interesting facts about the animal.

4. Students will share with class their selected animals and tell why they should be nominated as Wild Thing of the Year.

Congratulations! You have won an all expenses paid trip to Saturn!  A famous tabloid wants exclusive rights to your travel journal. 

After visiting Saturn, write a short story about the things you saw and did while on your cosmic vacation. You will need to take pictures or draw pictures to go with your story for the tabloid.

Imagine that you are on a committee making a brochure promoting fire safety in the home.  Go to the fire safety tips link and choose at least five fire safety rules to include in your brochure. 

Write the safety rules and the procedures to follow in your brochure.  Draw pictures to show your safety rules and to make the brochure interesting.

You have been chosen to complete a most daring assignment for your class newspaper.  As a roving reporter, you will travel in the time capsule back to early America and the time of the Pilgrims. 

Your boss needs you to find out everything you can about the  European settlers who first came to America.  This includes their journey to America, their daily life, and their interactions with the Native Americans they encountered. 

Once you have collected your data, you will return to present time and compile an article for the class newspaper. 
                   Good luck and be safe!!!