Update Activities: Notes from the Trail

What's significant in today's Notes from the Trail?

Subject: English Language Arts

Grade Level: Late Elementary (4-6)

Time: 30 minutes

Objective: Students will apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections and then relate it back to their personal lives.

Investigate a new word from "Notes from the Trail."

Subject: English Language Arts

Grade Level: Late Elementary (4-6)

Time: 35 minutes

Objective: Students will apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency. Students will apply work analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections.

From A Different Perspective

Subject: English Language Arts

Grade Level: Late Elementary

Time: 40 minutes

Objective: Students will write to communicate for a variety of purposes. Students will use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and structure. Students will compose well-organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences.

Compare and Chart the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature

Worksheet Included!

Subject: Mathematics

Grade Level: Late Elementary (4-6)

Time: 10-15 minutes each Expedition Update

Objective: Students will demonstrate and apply a knowledge and sense of numbers, patterns, and sequential order. Students will compute and estimate using mental mathematics, paper-and-pencil methods, and computers.

Debate the Daily Dilemma

Grade Level: Late Elementary (4-6)

Time: 1 - 1 ½ hours

Objective: Students will better understand the art of persuasion and opposing view points.

Describe the Ecosystem

Worksheet Included!

Subject: Language Arts/Earth Science

Time: 40 minutes, each week of the adventure

Grade Level: 3rd - 5th grades

Objective: Students will increase awareness of a particular ecosystem. Students will increase descriptive language skills and vocabulary to properly describe the ecosystem by using photos and making inferences.

Rainforest Resources

Worksheet Included!

Grade Level: 3rd-7th Grades

Subject: Language Arts/ Science

Time: 45 minutes

Objective: Students will better understand what products come from the rainforest and how the rainforest's resources are used by local users and global users. Students will make connections between their choices and their effects on the environment.