We kicked off the week with some highly anticipated news: We received our Place Out of Time character assignments from our friends at the University of Michigan. In our class, we'll be spending the next couple of months getting to know Pelé, Millard Fillmore, Rachel Carson, Henry Clay Frick, Raina Telgemeier, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Elon Musk, Richard Nixon, and Manfred con Richthofen (also known as "the Red Baron").
We're just dipping our toes into the research phase of the project this week, but things will progress quickly moving forward. Everyone is using a fairly comprehensive research log to help guide their inquiry into the life and time of their character. To take a look at the template, click here. Each child has their own copy on Google Drive, so be sure to chat with your child about what they're learning. (They can share their actual research log with you, if you like!) We'll be doing online research at school, as well as attempting to find books at the library, but feel free to help your child seek out material outside of school as well! In addition to the learning about each character, we'll all be learning research skills and strategies, the difference between primary and secondary sources, and the importance of citing sources of information.
We're also continuing with a much smaller scale research and presentation project this week. As mentioned in a previous blog entry, each student was tasked with researching and presenting on a species that is threatened or endangered in Michigan.
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| Eva presents on the Canadian Lynx. |
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| Ella presents on the Karner blue butterfly. |
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| Nick tells us about the plight of the Indiana bat. |
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| Bora lectures on the rufa red knot. |
Ask your child about their animal!
We also watched Sticky, which is a dreamy and lovely animated documentary that tells the remarkable story of a species categorized as extinct many decades ago. The first third of the twenty minute film is wordless. It's well worth a viewing:
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