Dinosaurs Before Dark & Dinosaurs

by Mary Pope Osborne                           by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne



For this lesson, these two books will be used.

Osborne, Mary Pope. Dinosaurs Before Dark. Random House, 1992

Osborne, Will, Mary Pope Osborne. Dinosaurs. Random House, 2000.
Summary

This is the first book in the Magic Tree house series. Jack and Annie find a treehouse in the woods. Inside the treehouse are magical books. Jack loves to read so he immediately grabs one about dinosaurs, As soon as he opens the book, he and Annie are magically transported back to the age of the dinosaurs. Jack and Annie encounter many different types of dinosaurs. While Jack is interested in studying the facts about dinosaurs, Annie is developing a personal connection to a dinosaur, a pterodactyl to be specific. As Jack and Annie return to the treehouse, Jack realized he left his backpack behind. When he goes to retrieve it, he runs into a T-Rex. Annie send her new friend the pterodactyl to save him. Jack is able to safely get back to the treehouse and he and Annie are magically returned to their world. Jack and Annie make a pact to keep the treehouse and their journey to themselves.


Lexile Level: 240
Grades: 2nd - 3rd
Domain: Cognitive

Standard

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.9
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

Goal
Student will learn about a different time period or historical events.

Objectives
After reading Dinosaurs After Dark and the fact tracker that accompanies this book, students will list three facts about dinosaurs.
Students will choose one historical event that they would like to visit and research that event.
Students will be able to identify three facts about the historical event they choose.

Outcome
Students will draw pictures about their visit to their chosen historical event, and include the three facts they identified.

Additional information:
29 Magic Treehouse
28 Merlin Missions
38 research guides or Fact Trackers as they are now called.

Selling Tool

Into the Volcano

Into the Volcano  By Don Wood.

Wood, Don.  Into the Volcano. New York: Blue Sky Press, 2008.

Lexile Level: 240

Grades: 5-7

Summary: This is a graphic novel about two brothers overcoming impossible odds. The story takes place on an unexplored volcanic island where only the brave survive. The brothers are told they must travel to a volcanic island to help an aunt they have never met. When they arrive on the island, they soon discover that their aunt is up to no good. They are sent on an expedition that takes them on a wild boat ride straight into an erupting volcano.

Selling Tool: Infographic

Learning activity for the book:

Science Integration: (This project will take a few weeks to complete.) Students will read this graphic novel and research the process by which causes a volcano to erupt.  They will then use their research as an expansion while creating their own erupting volcano as apart of a chemistry unit on chemical reactions.

Students will research and fill out this Scientific Graphic Organizer using multiple text including digital and book print as well as district databases such as World Book Online, and TrueFlix for informational text. When they are done identifying the process by which a volcano erupts they will work in small groups to create a volcano of their own and explain the process from their research to their peers while making their volcanoes erupt . The volcano activity will include the following materials: a bottle, baking soda, vinegar, red food coloring, moist soil- all answering the question, What's happening in there?

The project along with the research about the process of volcanic eruptions will be assessed using this rubric (which is given to students prior to them presenting).

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain the process by which causes a volcano to erupt while erupting their own volcano through a hands-on project.

Learning Objectives:

• Students will identify the chemical reaction process that causes a  volcano to erupt through research and the use of a scientific graphic organizer (Cognitive).

• Students will explain the process of volcanic eruptions through their own volcanic eruption project that will be assessed with a rubric (Cognitive and Psychomotor).

Learning Standards:

CC Standards: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7

Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

Information Fluency Continuum:

5.3 Selects and uses multiple appropriate print, nonprint, electronic, and human sources to answer questions.

5.6 Uses various note taking strategies (e.g., outlining, underlining, bulleted lists, highlighting, graphic organizers)

American Association School Library:

4 Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions.

2.4.1 Determine how to act on information (accept, reject, modify).

3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working productively with others.

Work Cited:

Teacher Workbook Series: Graphic Organizers. 2003. Retrieved on December 4, 2017 http://www.actedu.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Science-Graphic-Organizers.pdf