Title: Not Quite Narwhal
Author: Jessie Sima
Genre: Picture book, fantasy
Age Range: 4-8
Grade Level: PreK-3
Lexile Measure: AD590L
Genre: Picture book, fantasy
Age Range: 4-8
Grade Level: PreK-3
Lexile Measure: AD590L
MLA 8 CITATION: Sima, Jessie. Not Quite Narwhal. Simon & Schuster, 2017.

POSSIBLE LEARNING ACTIVITY:
Standards:
NGSS.K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
ESIFCS.1.3-5: Connects ideas to previous knowledge.
Essential Question Set #1:
Have you ever felt a little bit different? How?
Is it a good thing? Why?
Do you belong to more than one friend group?
Is it a good thing? Why?
Essential Question Set #2:
Why are the narwhals and unicorns having a party?
Why is it a beach party, specifically?
Do narwhals need water to survive?
Do land animals need water survive?
Do air animals need water to survive?
Do all animals need water to survive?
Assumptions:
Students have already completed a unit in science class that addresses standard NGSS.K-LS1-1.
Learning Goal:
Students will listen to the teacher read Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, examine the last page of the book, and contemplate why the narwhals (click for fact sheet) and unicorns meet on the beach.
Learning Objectives:
(A) Students will contemplate how two different kinds of animals can coexist.
(S) Students will depict a scene that shows how water connects ocean and land/air animals.
(K) Students will realize that all animals need water to survive.
Learning Outcome:
Students will draw a scene in a realistic setting where water and land/air animals come together, depicting how all animals need water to survive.
Procedure:
Students will listen to the teacher read Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, examine the last page of the book, and contemplate why the narwhals and unicorns meet on the beach. They will then draw a scene in which an ocean animal of their choice and a land/air animal of their choice celebrate friendship together in a realistic setting that includes water. Students will share their illustrations with one another and answer the question: Why do the the animals meet on the beach? Students draw on prior knowledge from their science class and express that all animals need water to survive. The teacher will host a discussion about the narwhals and unicorns about how the two animals get along. Students will be asked: Can different animals get along? Can different people get along?
Do all animals need water to survive?
Assumptions:
Students have already completed a unit in science class that addresses standard NGSS.K-LS1-1.
Learning Goal:
Students will listen to the teacher read Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, examine the last page of the book, and contemplate why the narwhals (click for fact sheet) and unicorns meet on the beach.
Learning Objectives:
(A) Students will contemplate how two different kinds of animals can coexist.
(S) Students will depict a scene that shows how water connects ocean and land/air animals.
(K) Students will realize that all animals need water to survive.
Learning Outcome:
Students will draw a scene in a realistic setting where water and land/air animals come together, depicting how all animals need water to survive.
Procedure:
Students will listen to the teacher read Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, examine the last page of the book, and contemplate why the narwhals and unicorns meet on the beach. They will then draw a scene in which an ocean animal of their choice and a land/air animal of their choice celebrate friendship together in a realistic setting that includes water. Students will share their illustrations with one another and answer the question: Why do the the animals meet on the beach? Students draw on prior knowledge from their science class and express that all animals need water to survive. The teacher will host a discussion about the narwhals and unicorns about how the two animals get along. Students will be asked: Can different animals get along? Can different people get along?
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