Lesson Plan for Web Scavenger Hunt

Web Scavenger Hunt Lesson Plan

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Subject Matter: ELA

Grade Level: 1st

Lesson Objective:

• Learners will demonstrate knowledge of/understanding of/ability to:
• Differentiate fiction from nonfiction books
• Deduce the topic of a fiction and nonfiction book

Common Core State Standard and/or Academic Content Standard:

CC.1.R.L.5 Craft and Structure: Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

Technology Standard: NETS for Students:

3. Research and information fluency Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry

b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media

c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks

d. Process data and report results

Website Addresses Used as Resources:

1. http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/fictionnonp1st.cfm

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KAJ0lJiD6c

3. http://www.readathon.org/the-storymaker/

Student Research Questions:

Essential Question:  See discussion of essential questions in week seven documents and resources or learning activities folder.

1. What was the most important thing you learned about the difference between fiction and nonfiction books?

Subsidiary Questions (6-10):

2. What does “fiction” mean? Nonfiction?

3.  How do we know the difference between fiction and nonfiction?

4. Give me an example of 3 books have we read in class that are fiction? Nonfiction?

5.  What ways are fiction and nonfiction the same? What ways are they different?

6. How do we figure out the topic/theme of a book?

7. What parts of a book make up the topic/theme?

8. What questions do we ask to find the topic?

9.  What is your favorite, fiction or nonfiction?

10. If you could write only one kind of story, which would you choose and why?

Assessment:  

Using the internet to do a web search to find information on fiction/nonfiction as well as learning the theme/topic of a book helps students interact more personally with the lesson and they are able to practice application by building their own story, both online and in class by listening to stories and choosing the correct genre. They would have an in-class portion of this lesson to write both a fiction and nonfiction story and would have to identify the topic as well as the characters, setting, problem, solution, and main idea.