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Traveling with Flat Stanley

Project Profile Student Learning Objectives

Share the journey with Flat Standley by reading the story by Jeff Brown.

Then make and take your own flat person on a journey.

You will hopefully document the journey with pictures and a narrative of where and what you flat person experiences.

Students will:

Identify and describe the weather and some possible activities of a chosen city.

Design and dress appropriately a flat person that could visit the chosen city.

Write a personal experience narrative about the flat person's adventures from the point of view of that flat person.

Classroom Management State Standards

This project will be implemented in a one computer classroom as part of Writer's Workshop. The time line for this project is approximately a month. The activities will be completed in cooperative groups, learning centers and individually.

Coopertive groups- Choose a location/person to send their flat person. Students may identify one of their family members or if none are available then they can create a fictional person with a fictional location limited to Western United States. The groups will research the weather and activites that pertain to the chosen location.

Learning center- Create their flat person and dress them according to the type of weather and season the person would be exposed to.

Individual- Students will write a personal experience narrative from the point of view of their flat person. They will include pictures (actual or illustrations) to add meaning to their narrative.

W-F3.Write a personal experience narrative or a creative story that has a beginning, middle, and end and uses descriptive words or phrases to develop ideas and advance the characters, plot and setting.

3SS-F1. Construct and interpret maps and other geographic tools, including the use of map elements to organize information about people, places, and environments, with emphasis on.

6SC-F7. Measure and record changes in weather conditions

PO 1. Measure weather conditions (e.g., temperature, wind speed, rainfall)
PO 2. Record weather conditions
PO 3. Interpret changes in weather conditions

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Flat Stanley Projects

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Project Profile	Student Learning Objectives
Share the journey with Flat Standley by reading the story by Jeff Brown. Then make and take your own flat person on a journey. You will hopefully document the journey with pictures and a narrative of where and what you flat person experiences.	Students will: Identify and describe the weather and some possible activities of a chosen city. Design and dress appropriately a flat person that could visit the chosen city. Write a personal experience narrative about the flat person's adventures from the point of view of that flat person.
Classroom Management	State Standards
This project will be implemented in a one computer classroom as part of Writer's Workshop. The time line for this project is approximately a month. The activities will be completed in cooperative groups, learning centers and individually. Coopertive groups- Choose a location/person to send their flat person. Students may identify one of their family members or if none are available then they can create a fictional person with a fictional location limited to Western United States. The groups will research the weather and activites that pertain to the chosen location. Learning center- Create their flat person and dress them according to the type of weather and season the person would be exposed to. Individual- Students will write a personal experience narrative from the point of view of their flat person. They will include pictures (actual or illustrations) to add meaning to their narrative.	W-F3.Write a personal experience narrative or a creative story that has a beginning, middle, and end and uses descriptive words or phrases to develop ideas and advance the characters, plot and setting. 3SS-F1. Construct and interpret maps and other geographic tools, including the use of map elements to organize information about people, places, and environments, with emphasis on. 6SC-F7. Measure and record changes in weather conditions PO 1. Measure weather conditions (e.g., temperature, wind speed, rainfall) PO 2. Record weather conditions PO 3. Interpret changes in weather conditions