Last week second and third graders read the Monarch nominee Building Our House. This fictional picture book is based on the true story of the author's parents building his family home. Students particularly enjoyed looking carefully at the pictures to find out more about the family.
After reading, each student chose a non-fiction book about a type of building or a specific famous building. They used their book to focus on research skills including note-taking and giving credit to the author of the book. In primary grades giving credit to the author of the book is the precursor to more formal citations as students get older.
Upon completion of their research students were able to use our laptops to access the PBS Building Big website where they explored different types of building materials and structures. The best question of the week? After watching a brick crumble when pulled apart in the "Materials" section of the PBS website, a third grader wanted to know why the Big Bad Wolf wasn't able to blow down the third pig's house if bricks fall apart that easily. Check out the Materials Lab to see if you can figure out how the third graders answered that question.
After reading, each student chose a non-fiction book about a type of building or a specific famous building. They used their book to focus on research skills including note-taking and giving credit to the author of the book. In primary grades giving credit to the author of the book is the precursor to more formal citations as students get older.
Upon completion of their research students were able to use our laptops to access the PBS Building Big website where they explored different types of building materials and structures. The best question of the week? After watching a brick crumble when pulled apart in the "Materials" section of the PBS website, a third grader wanted to know why the Big Bad Wolf wasn't able to blow down the third pig's house if bricks fall apart that easily. Check out the Materials Lab to see if you can figure out how the third graders answered that question.
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