Archives: Lesson Plans
Record Your Own Pod Cast
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 3rd – 7th Grades
Time: 30 minutes – 1 hour
Objective:
Students will write and perform their own Pod Casts that explain the day’s events and news from their lives.
Stage 3 overview
This is basic description for the dogsledding stage of the North American Odyssey.
Change of Perspective
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 4th-7th
Time: 45 minutes
Objective:
Students will compose a narrative essay from a distant point of view by using a secondary source to make inferences.
Investigate a New Word from “Notes from the Trail.”
Subject: English Language Arts
Grade Level: Late Elementary (4th – 6th)
Time: 35 minutes
Objective:
Students will apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency. Students will apply work analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections.
What’s Significant in Today’s Notes from the Trail?
Subject: English Language Arts
Grade Level: Late Elementary (4th – 6th)
Time: 30 minutes
Objective:
Students will apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections and then relate it back to their personal lives.
Write your own newspaper article
Subject: Language Arts
Grades: 3rd-6th
Objective:
Students will formulate questions for an interview of a person from a town along the expeditions route and write answers based on information presented on the Wilderness Classroom website and additional sources.
Debate the Daily Dilemma
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: Late Elementary (4th – 6th)
Time: 1 – 1 ½ hours
Objective:
Students will better understand the art of persuasion and opposing view points.
Critter Encounter Chart
Subject: Mathematics
Grade Level: 3rd-5th Grade
Time: 10 minutes per day
Objective:
Students will record information about the animals seen from various sources within the Wilderness Classroom web site into a chart. Students will make observations about data collected and record where they found the data.
Graph and Compare the Adventure’s Temperature Vs. Local Temperature
Subject: Mathematics
Grade Level: Late Elementary (4th-6th)
Time: 10-15 minutes each Expedition Update
Objective:
Students will demonstrate and apply a knowledge and sense of numbers, patterns, and sequential order. Students will compute and estimate using mental mathematics, paper-and-pencil methods, and computers
Learning from the Video Clips
Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 3rd – 8th
Time: 15 – 25 minutes
Objective:
Students will respond to the Video Clips section of the Wilderness Classroom web site and demonstrate understanding and purpose.