Stories in Stone: A Geology Story

In this project, the 6th graders applied their understanding of how geoscience processes shape Earth’s surface to infer how a chosen geological formation developed. They illustrated the story of your geological formation as a geology comic book meant to educate others about how rocks and fossils form.

Stories and Story Boards with Holes

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to work behind the scenes, writing a television show? In this project, the students find out! The students work for the writing team at a famous animation company that creates cartoon television shows. The team has decided to create a new TV show based on the novel Holes by Louis Sachar. The director loves this idea, but she wants to be sure that the show meets her goal for the company: to make educational TV that teaches people important life lessons. Here is the big question for you: How do stories teach people about life? It is your job to figure it out, finding the lessons in the novel and expressing them in your cartoon. The students do that by studying the novel carefully, using a number of reading strategies, and documenting all that they find. Once they are done with the book, they work with their team to break the novel into parts and plan each TV episode. Then create a STORYBOARD. The storyboard is for one episode of the student's cartoon, and it includes captions and quotations from the novel. At the end of the project, the students need to convince your director that their episode got the job done. They do this by writing an explanation of how their episode reveals an important message (a theme) to viewers.

Story Boards

Explanation to the Director

Unit Rates & Percentages

By the time the students finish this unit they should be able to:

1. Find the part or the whole in a percent problem.

2. Solve unit rate problems, including those involving unit price, constant speed, and measurement conversions.