Reading+Project


 * __Media Festival Project:__**
 * Directions:** Use these links to find information for your project. You will need to use the blank template below for your project. Make sure you have a title, map, captions, photo, and diagram along with some information describing your animal.

2.A.2.f - Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning.
 * Content Standard:**

3.A.1.a - Use technology tools, including software and hardware, from a range of teacher-selected options to learn a new content or reinforce skills. 3.C.1.b - Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments 3.C.1.e - Use various electronic information retrieval sources to obtain information on a topic
 * Technology Standards:**

__**Platypus** [|Department of Primary Industries and Water]__ - platypus information and text features [|Interactive Platypus World] - information, activities, and games about platypus [|Platypus facts for kids]- information about habitat, appearance, behavior and much more [|Platypus in the water] - cool pictures and good information [|Unique Australian Animals] - great pictures, map, and information about the platypus [|Facts about the Platypus] - food, habitat, behaviors, and good pictures [|platypus diagram.doc] a diagram I made using inspiration and Microsoft word document

[|Template for Newsletter.pub] - Click on this link to bring up your template for imputing your information

I put together a short PowerPoint of several examples of my students' work. The first slide shows the layout of this wikispace and the following slides are work samples. The last slide is a bibliography of the internet sites that my students used to complete this research project.
 * __Finished Project:__**

[|Media Festival Powerpoint.ppt]



1. Read __Rain Forest Babies__ by Kathy Darling 2. Take notes on 6 animals. 3. Make sure you include the level of the rain forest where it is found and where it can be found in the world. 4. You need to find 3 facts about the animal and a picture for each animal. 5. Then you need to have 5 facts about the rain forest and a description of each level of the rain forest. 6. Use the MS Publisher template I created to make your Rain Forest Animals brochure. 7. Resources are found below for your brochure. 8. Your finished product will be a brochure which is a functional document which will have information about rain forest animals!
 * Rain Forest: Directions for Brochure**

1.E.2.b - Set a purpose for reading the text 2.A.1.c - Select and read to gain information from personal interest materials 2.A.2.a - Use print features 2.A.2.f - Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning.
 * Content Standards:**

3.A.1.a - Use technology tools, including software and hardware, from a range of teacher-selected options to learn a new content or reinforce skills. 3.C.1.b - Use templates or create new documents to complete learning assignments 3.C.1.e - Use various electronic information retrieval sources to obtain information on a topic
 * Technology Standards:**

Use the resources below to create your brochure about Rain Forest Animals. [|rain forest.pub] - Use the Microsoft Publisher document that I made as your template. Remember that it has clip art that you can use.
 * __Resources:__**

Use the links below in case the MS Publisher's clip art doesn't have a picture of an animal in your brochure. [|Clip Art for Educators] - free clip art images [|Pics4Learning] - website with copyright friendly images [|Rain Forest clip art.doc] - royalty free clip art for Marmoset and Sugar Glider
 * __Extra Clip Art Options:__**


 * __Samples:__** Here are some samples of the brochures that our class has completed!