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Can You See Me?: Teaching Guide
Grades: K – 2
Curriculum Connections: Literacy
Shape and animal recognition… with a twist! Each page of Can You See Me? contains an illustration of an animal made up entirely of equilateral triangles. In this guided reading activity, parents and teachers and search each colorful spread, reading each clue together, and seeking the creature hidden in plain sight! But be ready… because the young people will likely see the animal before adults do! Developed by the creators, this guided reading activity includes samples from the book for classrooms and families to enjoy together, as well as tie-in crafts for kids to create their own art!
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Math and Science
Grades: 3 – 5
Curriculum Connections: Math and Science
The Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior world of Minecraftia holds unlimited opportunities for students to practice and apply math skills. From multiplication and division with crafting to perimeter, area, and volume with building, students can create their own math challenges and invite other students to solve them. Includes worksheets, answer keys, and real-world science lesson tie-ins.
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: English Language Arts
Grades: 2 – 5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts — Writing and Comprehension
Make learning fun with this easy-to-use Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior teaching guide! With lessons on genre, character, descriptive imagery, as well as creative writing prompts, help Minecraft fans build a love of reading! Inspired by the hit series Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior, the unofficial Minecraft novels that have captured the imaginations of middle-grade readers everywhere. After you read, have students tell their own stories with a Narrative Writing Card Game and story map!
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Arts and Architecture
Grades: 2 – 5
Curriculum Connections: Arts, Architecture, Engineering
Make learning fun with this easy-to-use Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior teaching guide! With lessons on art, architecture, and engineering, Minecraft fans will bring their creativity to life, and learn a lot along the way.
These student pages provide different challenges in drawing and rendering. “Create a Minecraft Self-Portrait,” page 3, gives students tips on using the squares-only style of Minecraft to create a self-portrait. “Drawing for Engineering,” page 4, gives students examples from the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior books of a diagram, a floor plan, and a rendering, and provides grid paper for them to try their hand.
Peanuts and NASA
Grade Levels: K-2, 3-5
Curriculum Connections: STEM, Space Science, Engineering, Language Arts
From Peanuts Worldwide, in partnership with NASA: “This year marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10, the NASA mission that made Charlie Brown and Snoopy part of the U.S. space program when their names were used as call signs for the command and lunar landing modules. Now NASA and the Peanuts gang are teaming up again to help students explore the history of space flight and the amazing technologies NASA will use to land astronauts on Mars. With separate activity sets for grades K-2 and 3-5, this program is sure to boost your students’ STEM skills as they imagine themselves part of the Peanuts space corps!”
Trapped in a Video Game: The Final Boss
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Science, Programming
As students experience experience cover-to-cover adventure with Trapped in a Video Game: The Final Boss, these guided activities will make language arts, science, and computer programming just as fun and accessible as a video game.
Big Nate: Say Good-bye to Dork City
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Students will analyze the actions and motivations of several characters in Big Nate: Say Good-Bye to Dork City. Students will then write and draw comics showing their own motivations and actions in real life situations.
Big Nate: I Can’t Take It!
Grade Levels: 3-5
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Life can be stressful for Nate Wright. At school, Mrs. Godfrey makes every day a nightmare. At home, he’s stuck between Ellen, his incredibly annoying older sister, and Dad, perhaps the most clueless parent of all time. And don’t get him started on Gina, the ultimate teacher’s pet, or Artur, the unassuming exchange student who bests him at every turn. It’s enough to make even a can-do kid like Nate scream: “I CAN’T TAKE IT!”
Big Nate: The Crowd Goes Wild!
Grade Levels: 3-7
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts
Two heads are better than one, except when they’re crashing into each other! But that won’t prevent Big Nate and his pals from hatching great ideas for fun. Nate Wright is a wisecracking eleven-year-old who knows he’s destined for greatness—he’s a sixth-grade chess prodigy, a self-described genius, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He’s often in hot water with his teachers and classmates, but Nate’s winning personality and can-do attitude always make him a big hit with readers.
Big Nate: The Crowd Goes Wild!
Grade Levels: 3-7
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Art
Play ball! When sixth-grader Nate Wright and his friends suit up for basketball, baseball, and soccer, there are bound to be highs, lows, wins, losses—and humor. Students can cheer Nate on as they examine the culture of sports through vocabulary, creative writing, and class discussion.
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