4th+Grade+Curriculum

=**4th Grade Curriculum **= ** Fourth Grade Library Classes 2008-2009 **  Library classes in the lower school usually begin with 15-20 minutes of students quietly reading their outside reading books. The following projects were completed during the remainder of library time.  =September= = = Topic: Introduction to Fenn School Library  =September/October=  Unit on Cambodia in preparation for Loung Ung’s visit at end of October 2008.Lesson 1 Topic: Introduction to Cambodia - “Running Shoes” by Frederick Lipp ** NOTES ** Study of Cambodia including: · Reading aloud __Running Shoes__ by by Frederick Lipp and Jason Gaillard · Fly over video of Cambodia, to study geography, housing, and climate · Using Inspiration, a web mapping tool to document what we learned about Cambodia from the book and the movie · Google Maps of Cambodia ·  __ A Song for Cambodia __  by Michelle Lord and Shino Arihara story about Arn Chorn Pond · Traditional Instruments in Cambodia using PBS website · Traditional and modern dance in Cambodia and Cambodia Americans ·  Water festival video
 * Summary **
 * Content Skills:
 * Understand and be comfortable with librarians and library class expectations:
 * Bring and Outside Reading Book to class and be prepared to participate in class discussion and activity.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">If you need a book, feel free to ask a librarian for help
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Be able to use the library to locate, check out, and return books independently
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Library is available to students whenever they need a book, not only during library class
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Introduction to making idea web
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teaching Methods:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Group discussion of Sua Sponte grade categories
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Creating an idea web: What do you think of when you hear the word Library? (need hand out)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Tour of the library
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Scavenger Hunt (need handout)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Assessment/Objectives:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">completed handout of idea web
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">completed scavenger hunt
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">participates in discussion
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Resources/Materials:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">two handouts, pencils
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">chart paper & marker to make group idea web about libraries
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">name tags
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Notes:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Content Skills:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Actively listen to a picture book story in order to collect information about the setting
 * Record clues from the story and illustrations about the setting of the story
 * List their clues in a group web map
 * Deduct the setting based on the group’s clues
 * Locate Equator, Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn on globe and note that this is the hottest region of the world
 * Locate South East Asia on a globe, based on their clues
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teaching Methods:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Model the finding of clues about the setting in a story (using bamboo shoots on first page as example)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Read aloud
 * Web mapping
 * Deductive reasoning
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Assessment/Objectives:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">students record clues on paper while listening to story
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">participates in group web mapping
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">contributes to discussion about story’s location
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Resources/Materials:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">White board/markers/eraser
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Clipboards/Pencils
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">“Running Shoes” handout
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">“Running Shoes” by Frederick Lipp
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Globe (falls off it's axis easily)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Lesson 2 Topic: Introduction to Cambodia & Google Maps
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Content Skills:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Use written directions for Google Maps to find Cambodia <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Locate site of Cambridge School for Cambodia, in rural Cambodia <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Use satellite images, topographic map, and road map to gather information about rural Cambodia
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Record answers on worksheet
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teaching Methods:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Direct instruction on how to login to google maps
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Guided exploration of Cambodia’s geography
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Assessment/Objectives:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Engagement in online process for Google maps
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Completion of handout
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Resources/Materials:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">LCD projector, computer, google maps
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Clipboards/Pencils
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Handout “Cambodia Google Maps”
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Notes:
 * October: **
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Read aloud Halloween stories, ghost stories, and witch stories
 * November & December: **
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Story mapping, including title, author, characters, setting, problem, events, & solution. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Using Inspiration, an online tool for creating idea webs students created their own story map <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Translating idea web into a plan for creating a book review

**Outside Reading Books (ORB) Reflections**
This is an opportunity for boys to reflect on the reading they have been doing. Their audience will be their peers. They'll present a compelling book review to their peers through either comic strip format or voice thread format. (See below for details.)

1. A lesson using Inspiration Software. They will use an inspiration template which allows the student to map a story of their choice. The template includes places to input:


 * title/author
 * setting
 * characters
 * problem
 * events
 * solution
 * my connection to the story (where boys explain how they felt compelled by this story.)

Here's the Inspiration Template: [|Story Map.isf]

2. A lesson that takes the completed Inspiration story map and allows the student to plan to create a six pane Comic Strip using [|Comic Creator] by [|Read, Write, Think]. They will create six panes in their comic, one for each of the story map areas above (except for "solution" - I don't want them to give away the ending of their story.) I've created a Comic Creator Planning Sheet where they'll first plan out what each panel of the comic will contain.

Here's the Planning Sheet: [|Comic Creator Planning Sheet.doc]

3. A lesson that takes the completed Inspiration story map and allows the student to create a [|voice thread book review]. He can write and record a book review like the ones in the example. This will involve: - using the information from the Inspiration story map as to write a book review - creating a line drawing of themselves to upload - finding an image of their book to upload - optionally, doing drawings of events in the book to include in the voice thread - recording their book review

I will create an outline for a spoken book review, including a quote from the book to open the book review, a synopsis, and an opinion about the book backed up by examples from the story. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Created book review comic strips using Comic Strip Maker on readwritethink.org <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Created spoken book reviews using voicethread.com <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Created bulletin boards with comic strips <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Study of Inuit culture <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o beginning with “What I Already Know”, “What I Would Like to Know”, and “What I Learned” <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o through the reading of James Houston’s __The White Archer__ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o through the use of informational books about the arctic and the Inuit
 * January & February: **
 * March, April, May: **

Canadian Natives
James Houston's Treasury of Inuit Legends (2006) contains: Tiktaliktak - survival story of a young boy who is separated from his family and has to live a year on his own.

[|Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award] <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Comparison of traditional Inuit culture to modern life in Nunavit through **Canadian Geographic** photographs, www.canadiangeographic.ca
 * June **

**ABC State Project Report**
Students will each create 26 page hardcover book of their state research project. Using print resources (books), evaluated web sites, and subscription databases students will locate and access pertinent information that is necessary to complete their research. For an A-Z State Book Evaluation see here:

The librarians will collaborate with 4th grade social studies teachers and students:

1. An introduction session to "What is research?" with an overview of the following:
 * Accessing our [|Online Library Catalog: Athena] to search for state books
 * Introduction to the following databases: Country Reports and/or SIRS Discover with Web Find
 * Citing and evaluating resources
 * Examples of ABC books from the Fenn School Library collection checked out in book boxes for each classroom
 * Introduction to Curriculum Connections (add Snap it visual) which will contain evaluated web sites for their state research

[|Federally Recognized Tribal Names A Through N] [|Federally Recognized Tribal Names O Through Z] [|Roadside Attractions]
 * E** - [|Endangered Species Search by Place database]
 * F** - [|Stately Knowledge: Some Famous People From This State]
 * I** - Indigenous People:
 * M** - [|State Motto]
 * O** - Outstanding Feature (architecture: monuments, bridges, tallest buildings; National Parks, etc.)
 * V** - Volcanoes (Vegetation, Vegetables, Vermin, Victorian architecture, Voting?)
 * Z** - [|United States Postal Service Zip Code Lookup]

2. Under consideration is an introduction to [|NoodleTools/NoodleBib] so students can compile their bibliographies while conducting their ongoing research.

3. Lastly we will display students' ABC State Books in the library!

Questions for the team:
 * Are the ABC book pages sent into a company to bind the books?
 * Do you want other options for adding content to student ABC books besides self written and self drawings?
 * Could the library have a copy of My American GeoJourney to have a sense of what students are already doing/have already completed with this unit? For example, the database CultureGrams has already been used extensively with the GeoJourney booklet so you would prefer to use other databases for the ABC State Project Research.
 * Please send us the periods of the week that each of you teach 4th grade social studies
 * If possible would you like some of this work to be completed during library class time?


 * Language Arts

First Nations (Canadian term) - Native Americans**

//Where the Buffaloes Begin// by Olaf Baker //Spider Spins a Story Fourteen Legends from Native America// Edited by Jill Max. [|Read a review from Amazon]


 * //The Warriors// by Joseph Bruchac**

[|RIF - Reading Planet] "A new site, Reading Planet, by Reading is Fundamental offers students a variety of options to make reading fun. The site gives kids the opportunity to print a monthly calendar with reading activities for each day of the month in the "Activity Lab;" the opportunity to review books in the "Express Yourself" section; games to build reading and language comprehension in the "Game Station"; and read-along stories with illustrations in the "Book Zone." After a free registration, members also have the opportunity to write story threads with other members from around the world." The featured author in December is Joseph Bruchac!

Web sites
[|Recommended Publications for Children on Native American Subjects] - Encyclopedia Smithsonian