Camden County Academy Teacher

TITLE	GRADE	STANDARD	SUMMARY

A Comparison Between a Rural Area and a Suburb	3 - 5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.5, Social Sts: Standard 6.7	The students will see that there can be likes and differences no matter where a person lives. They will also be able to see how E-mail can be a useful tool to gather information.

Anne Frank Extension Research Activity	6 - 8	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2 Social Sts: Standard 6.7	Students will create and present a PowerPoint presentation about the holocaust.

Characterization Disney	4-5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	Teaching characterization using Disney and his characters is an excellent way to captivate your students. This lesson is a fun way to teach characterization. Students will "put away worn out words".

Enjoying Writing	3-8	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	Each student will save their writing samples to a diskette that will be provided to them by the school. The diskettes will follow each student from fourth to eighth grade.

Heroes of the Columbia	3-6	Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 Lang Arts 3.1 & 3.2	Students will search the web for information on the seven Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts who perished in on Feb. 1, 2003.

I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Written That Way	3 - 5	Language Arts Literacy: 3.2 & 3.4 Science 5.5	Students learn that animals are predators because they have to survive and that this doesn't make them "bad". They discuss how many of our perceptions about predators are based on myths.

Interview with History	5 - 7	Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 Language Arts: 3.1 & 3.2 Soc Studies: 6.3 & 6.7	The students will pretend to be historical reporters and design an interview for a historical figure and then research to find the answers for their interview.

Idiomatic Expressions	5-7	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1	Students are exposed to various types of figurative language and are expected to interpret this style language.

In the Haunted House	3 - 5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	This is a fun activity that allows the students to become fully involved while listening to a story. As the story is "acted out", the students respond to questions about characters, plot, and setting. The story is then used as a writing prompt.

My Mystery	5 - 9	Language Arts - Standard 3.2 3.5	Students will write a short mystery story using the elements of a mystery: setting, plot, characters, clues, solution.

Oregon Trail	5 - 7	Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 Social Studies: Standard 6.3 & 6.7	Students will gather information from "Covered Wagon" by Scholastic Books. Students will find information from Internet Oregon Trail links. Students will gather supplies to take on a 4 mile trek to be carried in a replica of a Mormon handcart.

Paleontologist Search	3 - 6	Science 5.1 Language Arts Standard 3.2	Students will research and report on a famous paleontologist and his discoveries.

Pick Your Brain	5 - 9	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1 & 3.2	'Pick Your Brain' can be used to review a specific skill taught like cause/effect. Instead of just recalling events, students must recall events and must write cause/effect sentences.

Reading/Predicting	4-6	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	This lesson is a great way to "hook" your students into writing a prediction about a new unit. It helps students use prior knowledge and their critical thinking skills to draw conclusions.

Reading Olympics	4-6	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.4	This lesson will encourage students to read for enjoyment. The students will compete against other teams to see how many pages they can read in 3 weeks.

Using Customary Units To Measure Length	2-5	Mathematics: 4.1 Language Arts: 3.1:	The students will read How Big is a Foot?. Then, they will have the opportunity to measure using their own form of measurement and make comparisons when they use customary units. In the next two lessons, they will use their knowledge of customary units to estimate, measure and compare their heights.

Career & Consumer Education	Science	Social Studies
Health & Physical Education	World Languages	Technology
Language Arts / Reading	Mathematics	Visual_Performing_Arts

TITLE	GRADE	STANDARD	SUMMARY

Across Five Aprils	6 - 8	Language Arts Literacy: 3.1	Students will examine a text for examples of characterization and theme and then synthesize the information to create a friendly letter in the persona of the main character.

Adjectives	3 - 5	Language Arts Literacy: 3.3	Students will compare and contrast ads with and without adjectives. Students will create advertisements for products using adjectives.

Adjectives "Ugly" Sisters	3 -5	Language Arts Literacy: 3.2	Students will use appropriate adjectives to write and description of an “ugly sister/brother” they draw.

Air Pressure	3 - 5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2 Science: STANDARD 5.1	The lesson will introduce and give the student an idea about air pressure and its existence.

Anne Frank Extension Research Activity	6 - 8	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2 Social Studies Standard 6.4	Students will create and present a PowerPoint presentation about the holocaust.

A Webquest Comparing Japan, Russia, and Mexico	3 -6	Social Studies Standard 6.7 Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.3	Students will complete a web quest activity, using technology and research skills to discover facts about Japan, Mexico, and Russia.

Auto-Bio Poems	4 - 8	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.3	This poetry activity will introduce students to writing poetry. The students will compose an autobiographical poem consisting of eleven lines

Bats	3 - 5	Language Arts 3.2 & Science: Standard 5.5	Students will work in cooperative groups to search for information on bats. Then present the information they gathered.

Before and After a Timeline	5 -7	Science 5.1 Language Arts 3.2	Students will make their own timelines to demonstrate the “BC” & “AD” their relation to a “Key Event” – Their Birthday.

Beware Shark	3 - 5	Language Arts 3.3 & Science: Standard 5.5	Using computer resources students will write and illustrate a paragraph a marine animal.

Can You Solve My Math Problems!!!!	2-6	Mathematics: 4.1 Language Arts 3.2	Students will create a word problem then create a picture from KidPix and type the word problem on the page, and then print the product. Next they will create 5 word problems. Students will solve each others problems.

Character Study	3 - 5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.3	The students will randomly select an image of a person that will become the subject of a one paragraph character study. The class will try to match the writing with the image.

Characterization Disney	4-5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	Teaching characterization using Disney and his characters is an excellent way to captivate your students. This lesson is a fun way to teach characterization. Students will "put away worn out words".

Cause and Effect	3 - 5	Language Arts: 3.1 Health & P.E. 2.1	Students will find the cause and effects of different kinds of stress.

Creative Twisters	3 - 9	Language Arts 3.2	Students will create tongue twisters

Creative Writing Creature	4 - 6	Visual/Performing Arts 1.3 Language Arts 3.2	Students will write creative story about the creature that walked across their class room

Dramatic Presentation Of Animal Fables	3-4	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1:	After reading the fable " The Ant and the Grasshopper", children will work in groups to put dialogue to the fable and then they will present the dramatic story to the rest of the class.

Enjoying Writing	3-8	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	Each student will save their writing samples to a diskette that will be provided to them by the school. The diskettes will follow each student from fourth to eighth grade.

Eyewitness Account in Egypt	4 - 6	Language Arts 3.2, 3.3 Social Studies 6.2	Students will write an eyewitness account using the 5 w’s and sensory details involving Egyptian artifacts

Family Camping	6-9	Math: 4.1 Language Arts 3.2	Students will be given an imaginary budget of $600 to buy all the camping equipment needed for four family members including the student.

Figurative Language	6 -9	Language Arts Literacy 3.2	The students will create a figurative language collage that will include examples and definitions. The collages will be posted throughout the classroom and will be used as part of a larger unit on poetry.

Floating Bottle Note	2 - 8	Language Arts 3.2	Students will write creative story about a note found in a bottle.

Heroes of the Columbia	3-6	Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 Lang Arts 3.1 & 3.2	Students will search the web for information on the seven Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts who perished in on Feb. 1, 2003

How to Locate Information	5-12	Career/Consumer Std. 9.1 Language Arts 3.1, 3.4, 3.5, Technology 8.1, 8.2	Students (working in small groups will complete a teacher assigned webquest following the directions from the webquest

"How-To" Paragraph To Class Cookbook	5 -9	Language Arts 3.2 Career/Consumer Standards 9.1	Students select family recipes and turn them into a procedural paragraph stressing a variety of transitional words. We made transitional word walls, reviewed paragraph form, and used word processing to produce our final copies. Paragraphs were finally bound into a book and given as gifts to parents.

Idiomatic Expressions	5-7	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1	Students are exposed to various types of figurative language and are expected to interpret this style language.

Interview with History	5 - 7	Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 Language Arts: 3.1 & 3.2 Social Studies: 6.3 & 6.7	The students will pretend to be historical reporters and design an interview for a historical figure and then research to find the answers for their interview.

In the Haunted House	3-5	Language Arts Literacy: Standard 3.2	This is a fun activity that allows the students to become fully involved while listening to a story. As the story is "acted out", the students respond to questions about characters, plot, and setting. The story is then used as a writing prompt.

I Remember	3 - 9	Language Arts 3.1 & 3.2 Social Studies: Standard 6.3	This mini-unit on the Holocaust provides students with the opportunity to relate to a child that experienced the horror of the Holocaust. The activities allow the students to bond with a child and understand some children's thoughts and feelings as they experienced life in a concentration camp.

Journey Through Space Number Book	3-5	Language Arts 3.2 Science: Standard 5.9	Students will create a space counting book for lower grades to use as a resource. Each page of the book will contain a space related vocabulary word with its definition, a cardinal number, and an ordinal number.

Letters from Big J	4 - 8	Language Arts 3.2 Social Studies: 6.7	This lesson requires students to imagine life aboard a battleship during WWII and through their research compose fictional letters home.

Math Problem Solving Readiness	2 - 5	Language Arts Literacy 3.1 Mathematics 4.5	Students perform basic computation, then write and solve their own problems.

Messages in a Bottle	2 - 5	Language Arts Standard 3.2 Social Studies Standard 6.7	Students will send “a message in a bottle” to request help and a map of their location so rescuers can find them

Musical Messages	3 - 12	Visual and Performing Arts 1.2:1 & 1.2:3 Language Arts Standard 3.2 & 3.3	Students will write stories that follow the emotional level of a piece of music and then read as imaginary audition for a Broadway Play