Caroline wrote: has anyone done either of these two things?
still in educationworld.com, type in fact monster. students have to find
information within the fact monster encylopedia. what's really cool about
this is that students learn how to search for information, look up key
words, figure out the topic, and skim, many of the skills i try to teach
while using informational texts. i'm going to give this a try as well. we'll
see how it goes.
Caroline, I use fact monster for when my students are assigned a European
country to research for our map studies. They have a list from me of what
pertinent information I want on their fact page. This teaches them to cut
and paste only specific info and not just highlight the entire country and
paste it. Info for example Size, population,type of government, natural
resources, trade partners, etc. Moral: You must be reading it ads you go!
Then I make them make the map of their country for their intro page. Again
they can use it from here and copy it to a word document. They get the
country's outline and put the capital, major rivers, major cities etc. and
color it.
They next have to use info from another source of their own and come up with
info for 5 paragraphs about points of interest within the country. They make
a mini poster of places tourist should see.
When all countries have been reported on the class takes a test on the
country and capital. They must label the country on an outline map only.
Sue Flaherty
6th grade social studies, math, and Language Arts
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