TEACHING Mighty Movers

TEACHING GUIDE TEACHING Mighty Movers 2nd Grade Reading Level

2 TEACHING MIGHTY MOVERS Standards Technology Language Arts Writing Language Arts Reading Language Arts Listening and Speaking Visual Arts Understands the nature and uses of different forms of technology. Understands the relationships among science, technology, society, and the individual. Demonstrates competence in the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions. Gathers and uses information for research purposes. Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process. Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of informational texts. Demonstrates competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning. Understands the characteristics and merits of one s own artwork and the artwork of others. Multiple Intelligences Utilized Spatial, linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal Copyright 2004 by Lerner Publications Company All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Student pages may be reproduced by the classroom teacher for classroom use only, not for commercial resale. No other part of this teaching guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Go to www.lernerclassroom.com for a complete list of titles in the Mighty Movers series. LernerClassroom A division of Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. 800-328-4929 Website address: www.lernerclassroom.com Manufactured in the United States of America 2 3 4 5 6 7 IG 11 10 09 08 07 06 ISBN 0-8225-1932-1 PMS Blue 286U

TEACHING MIGHTY MOVERS 3 Lesson 1 What Is A...? Purpose: Students will preview and complete skills lessons involving vocabulary words from the Mighty Movers books. Materials Mighty Movers series All About Words p. 8 Objectives Recall information. Restate facts. Apply prior knowledge while reading. Practice using a glossary. Identify boldfaced words in a text. Explain the meaning of a word. Activity Procedures Reading Skills Checklist p. 9 pencils Prepare (teacher) Copy All About Words p. 8 for each student. Copy Reading Skills Checklist p. 9 for the class. (A number of skills are listed on the reproducible. You may fill in the blank spaces with additional reading skills. Use the checklist throughout the entire unit.) Pretest (student, class) Choose one Mighty Movers book to read. Preview the text independently. What do you think you will learn from the book? Model (teacher) Turn to page 30 in the chosen Mighty Movers book. Explain to students that this is the glossary. Tell students that the glossary has a list of important words from the book and explains what the words mean. Point out the boldfaced words. Tell students that you know these are important words because they are thicker and darker than the other words on the page. Demonstrate how to use the glossary: Step 1 While reading the text, stop at a boldfaced word. Step 2 Ask the class what they think the word means. Step 3 Look at the first letter of the boldfaced word. Step 4 Turn to the glossary on page 30. Step 5 In the glossary, find a boldfaced word that begins with the same letter as the boldfaced word from the text. Then look for the word from the text. Step 6 Read the definition to the class and discuss it. Read (student, partner) Read one book from the Mighty Movers series. Practice (student, partner) Complete All About Words p. 8. After completing All About Words p. 8, work with a partner to quiz one another on the vocabulary words. Discuss (teacher, class) What did you learn? What words from the book had a different definition than you had previously learned? (e.g. bucket a place at the end of a fire truck s ladder where firefighters stand to spray a fire) Evaluate (teacher) Use the Reading Skills Checklist p. 9 to evaluate each student s reading proficiency.

4 TEACHING MIGHTY MOVERS Lesson 2 Technology Helps Us... Purpose: Students will research information in the Mighty Movers books to learn how humans use different types of equipment to fulfill basic needs. Students will sort and categorize pictures found in periodicals or other sources. Read (student) Read one or several books from the Mighty Movers series. Model (teacher) Define the terms transportation, farming, construction, excavation, and protection. Give examples of vehicles and their uses. Demonstrate how to fill out the Technology Helps Us worksheet pp. 10 11. Materials Mighty Movers books paper scissors pencils glue magazines with pictures of vehicles Technology Helps Us pp. 10 11 whiteboard or chalkboard dry erase marker or chalk Practice (student) Complete Technology Helps Us worksheet pp. 10 11. Cut out magazine pictures of vehicles. Group pictures and objects by their uses. Glue the pictures onto paper and label the uses for the vehicles in each group. Objectives Define the word technology. Identify vehicles that are useful for human welfare. Collect pictures of vehicles. Organize and arrange pictures of vehicles by use. Construct a diagram showing how vehicles are used. Determine which vehicles are most useful to people. Activity Procedures Prepare (teacher) Copy Technology Helps Us pp. 10 11 for each student. Collect magazines with pictures of vehicles. Discuss (student, class) Discuss the importance of the various forms of technology found in the Mighty Movers books. Share information found in the books. Explain how the types of vehicles were grouped and why. Evaluate (teacher, class) Construct a class chart or bulletin board that displays the pictures and categories of vehicles collected by the students. Pretest (class) List vehicles and how humans use them (e.g. for transportation, construction, entertainment, farming, excavation, etc.).

TEACHING MIGHTY MOVERS 5 Lesson 3 Make a Model Purpose: Students will make a nonworking model to represent the subject of a Mighty Movers book. Materials Mighty Movers books Make a Model Shopping List p. 12 Make a Model Rubric p. 13 pencils Objectives Select a vehicle from the Mighty Movers series to study. Identify the different parts of a vehicle. Collect the materials needed to construct a model of a vehicle. Organize the materials needed to make a model. Construct a nonworking model of a vehicle. Evaluate how well a model represents an actual vehicle. Activity Procedures Various craft items, such as colored clay, cardboard, pipe cleaners, colored noodles, Popsicle sticks, beads, buttons, yarn, construction paper, etc. Prepare (teacher) Copy Make a Model Shopping List p. 12 and Make a Model Rubric p. 13 for each student. Collect and display craft materials. Create a model of a vehicle from one of the Mighty Movers books. Pretest (teacher, class) What is a model? Show an example of a model of one Mighty Movers vehicle. Read (class) Read one of the Mighty Movers books. Model (teacher) Demonstrate how to use craft items to represent different parts of a Mighty Movers vehicle (e.g. round buttons could be used to represent wheels). Practice (student) Day 1 Take the Make a Model Shopping List p. 12 to the craft item display and write a list of the items you will need for your model. Day 2 Use your Make a Model Shopping List p. 12 to select the items you will need to make your model. Build your model in class. (This could take several class periods, depending on the intricacy of the models.) (Optional) Write a fictional story about your model. Name your model and write a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Discuss (class) Why were some models possibly easier to build than others? Why did you choose the objects you did to represent the different parts of the models? Evaluate (class, teacher) Share completed models and stories with the class. Teacher evaluates models and presentations using the Make a Model Rubric p.13.

6 TEACHING MIGHTY MOVERS Lesson 4 In Summary Purpose: Students will design and draw a futuristic or novel kind of transportation. Model (teacher, class) Show students how to complete Fantastic Machine Ideas p. 14. Draw a new and improved machine and present it to the class as an example. Demonstrate how to label the illustration. Materials Mighty Movers books Fantastic Machine Ideas p. 14 All About My Machine p. 15 Project Thoughts p. 16 pencils crayons or colored pencils Practice (student) Individually complete Fantastic Machine Ideas p. 14. Complete an illustration of your new and improved machine using All About My Machine p. 15. Label your illustration with a short caption. Objectives Recall information from Mighty Movers books. Identify a problem that could be solved by modifying an existing machine. Illustrate a new or improved machine. Explain and label an illustration. Plan how a new machine would be used. Predict how a machine will fulfill a need. Discuss (class) How might engineers or inventors think up or design new types of machinery, equipment, or transportation? How will the machine you improved be more useful than the existing machine it was based on? Evaluate (student, teacher) Complete Project Thoughts p. 16. Activity Procedures Prepare (teacher) Copy Fantastic Machine Ideas p. 14, All About My Machine p. 15, and Project Thoughts p. 16 for each student. Pretest (class) Brainstorm machines in your home or school that make a job easier. Read (class) Read one Mighty Movers book.

TEACHING MIGHTY MOVERS 7 Additional Resources WEBSITES DLTK s Crafts for Kids: Transportation Activities http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/transportation/ This site offers a variety of transportation craft ideas and coloring pages. John Deere Kids Corner http://deere.com/en_us/compinfo/kidscorner/ home.html Learn about farm equipment safety. TxDOT Expressway: Transportation http://www.dot.state.tx.us/kidsonly/transpg/ Transport.htm This kids site by the Texas Department of Transportation has photos and facts about a variety of common vehicles. It includes printable coloring pages of each vehicle type. BOOKS Bingham, Caroline. Rescue-Mania! (Vehicle-Mania! Series). New York: World Almanac Books, 2003. Students will learn all about rescue vehicles and how they work. Boucher, Jerry. Fire Trucks Nuts and Bolts. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1993. This colorful book shows the process of building a fire truck. Brown, Craig McFarland. Tractor, Vol. 1. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. This picture book details the different purposes for which a farm tractor can be used. Collins, David R. Pioneer Plowmaker: A Story about John Deere. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1990. This biography tells the story of John Deere, an inventor who created farming equipment. Eick, Jean. Garbage Trucks. Chanhassen, MN: The Child s World, Inc., 1998. The author uses simple text to describe garbage trucks and their functions. Ethan, Eric. Helicopters. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Audio, 2002. This book describes how helicopters can be used as emergency vehicles.. Police Cars. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Audio, 2002. This book describes police cars and the equipment they contain. Gibbons, Gail. New Road. New York: Harpercrest, 1987. This book explains how roads are built and the kinds of machines used to build them. Jennings, Terry. Cranes, Dump Trucks, Bulldozers and Other Building Machines. New York: Kingfisher Books. 1993. This book describes machines that are used for building. Levin, Freddie. 1-2-3 Draw Cars, Trucks and Other Vehicles. Columbus, NC: Peel Productions, Inc., 2001. This illustrated book teaches kids how to draw a variety of vehicles. Maynard, Christopher. I Wonder Why Planes Have Wings and Other Questions About Transportation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. This book answers all kinds of questions kids have about transportation and vehicles. Mayo, Margaret. Emergency. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 2002. This colorful board book introduces students to the various vehicles used to respond to emergencies. Nelson, Robin. Transportation Then and Now. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 2003. Students compare modes of transportation from long ago with those of the modern age. Photographs accompany the simple text. Soloff-Levy, Barbara. How to Draw Planes, Trains and Boats. New York: Dover Publications, 2004. This book gives easy-to-follow instructions for drawing a variety of vehicles using geometric shapes. Stille, Darlene R. Big Rigs. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2001. This book explores a variety of trucks and their functions.

8 All About Words Name Date Directions: Write boldfaced words from your Mighty Movers book in the boxes on the left. Use the glossary on p. 30 of your Mighty Movers book to find each word s definition. Write the definitions on the lines. Draw a picture to represent each word in the square to the right of its definition. Word Definition Picture

Reading Skills Checklist 9 Name Skill previews pictures previews captions uses prior knowledge identifies main idea glossary use index use Mastered Developing Needs Improvement A B C D F comprehends written directions

10 Technology Helps Us Name Date Directions: Look for facts about how humans use vehicles. Write each fact under the word that describes its purpose. Example: A fire truck carries firefighters to a fire. You could write this fact under TRANSPORTATION or PROTECTION. Write the facts that don t fit any category under OTHER. TRANSPORTATION FARMING CONSTRUCTION

Technology Helps Us 11 EXCAVATION PROTECTION OTHER

12 Make a Model Shopping List Name Date Part of Vehicle Craft Item Needed

Make a Model Rubric 13 Name Date Score Elements 4 -Model was well constructed. -Parts of model were easily identified. -Used a loud, clear speaking voice when presenting model. -Provided complete and correct information about the vehicle chosen. 3 -Model was well constructed. -Most parts of the model were easily identified. -Used semi-loud, clear speaking voice when presenting model. -Provided correct information about the vehicle chosen. 2 -Model was completed. -Some parts of the model were easily identified. -Speaking voice was not loud and clear when presenting model. -Provided some incorrect information about the vehicle chosen. 1 -Model was not completely done. -Parts of model were not easily identified. -Was not able to be heard while presenting model. -Provided very little correct information about the chosen vehicle. Score

14 Fantastic Machine Ideas Name Date Directions: questions below. Read a Mighty Movers book. Plan your new machine by answering the What machine will you improve? 1. What are three things that the machine doesn t do that you think it should do? 2. How will your new and improved machine work better than the real machine? 3. What changes will you make to improve this machine? 4. Answer the questions below before you draw your picture. Circle Y (yes) or N (no). a. Is my solution a new idea? Y N b. Is it useful or fun? Y N c. Can I draw it? Y N d. Would people really use it? Y N If most of your answers are yes, go ahead and draw your idea.

All About My Machine 15 Name Date Directions: Read a Mighty Movers book. Draw a picture of your new, improved machine. Write a caption below the picture explaining how you improved the machine.

16 Project Thoughts Name Date Directions: Read a Mighty Movers book. Complete each of the statements below. The machine I chose to improve was I chose this machine because The hardest part about drawing my improvement was The thing I like best about my drawing is Something I learned from reading about the real machine is I would say that my improved machine idea and drawing (circle one): 1 = need more work 2 = are mostly the way I planned 3 = are okay 4 = are good 5 = are really great Teacher Comments