• Phase One: Choose Your Own Adventure Wrap Up
• Phase Two: Museum Visitor/Visit a Museum
• Phase Three: Parents and students come into the classroom

Grade Level: 6-8 Grade
 
 

Content Area: Science

Language Arts

Home Economics

Computers (enough for 1 per group)
 
 

If available visit a museum

Parent social with Mexican food

Presentation of ocean folder and exhibit
 
 
 
 
 
 

Goals:

1. Students will proof read a partner's adventure story.

2. Students will organize and cross-reference their own story.

3. Students will publish their choose your own adventure story.
 
 

Materials: Completed adventure stories

4x6 index cards

Computers (ideal to have one for each student)
 
 

Procedure:

1. Students will come to class with their finished stories. At this time each pair will proof read each other's work.

2. Next the students will need to lie out their index cards on the floor to resemble their flow chart. They will need to number the cards beginning with page 1 on the starting card. The rest of the cards will be numbered randomly. For example, story 1 will be page 6, story 2 will be page 9, and story 1A will be page 2 and so on.

3. The students will then need to insert the cross-references at the end of the stories. Students can refer to an example book for examples like, "If you choose to do this turn to page 3…"

4. Once this is complete the students will publish their work. The students will be brought into the computer lab. Each partner will take their revised set of cards and type them in the computer.

5. Students will organize the pages, illustrate some pages if they chose to do so, and design a cover.

6. The teacher will make a copy of the story for each partner, which will be placed in his or her ocean folder.
 
 

Assessment: See Choose Your Own Adventure Rubric
 
 

Extension: Students can exchange and share their stories with the class.
 

Phase Two: Museum Visitor/Visit a Museum

Goal: Students will gain first hand knowledge from a local staff member of a museum. (Ideally a museum of the ocean or fisheries would be the best)
 
 

Materials: Staff member from a museum/local museum
 
 

Time: 2-3 hours
 
 

Procedure:

1. The teacher will have arranged either a museum staff member to come into the classroom or arrange a trip to a local museum.
 
 

Assessment: The classroom rubric can be used for this phase.
 
 

Extension: If there is not a museum nearby or a staff member to come to the classroom the teacher should consider via satellite interview.
 
 

Phase Three: Parents and students come into the classroom
 
 

Goals:

1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge to other students about the ocean.

2. Students will show their parents their exhibit and ocean folder.

3. Students will show and share their food with other students and parents.
 
 

Materials: Mexican food dishes

Ocean folders

Exhibits
 
 

Procedure:

1. The teacher will send home letters to the parents inviting them to their celebration. Parents can bring in a Mexican food dish to pass.

2. The students will show other students and parents their ocean folders and exhibits. They should explain what they learned and what the book The Black Pearl was about.

3. Students can share the Mexican food dishes while they complete step two.
 
 

Assessment: There is no assessment for this phase. Students should show and be proud of the work they have done the past two weeks.
 
 

Extension: If a student's parent cannot come on this day encourage them to have a relative such as a grandparent come into the classroom. The class may also want to invite some local elderly home residents to see the work they have completed.