English/Language Arts
Explore lead sentences - Questions
Add this Minute to the bank of Minutes that start out with a question. This Minute employs second person voice by asking you a question. Compare this Minute to others that start with a question - just search Minutes with the term question lead sentence. Do they all use second person? If not, what is the difference? Does third person work better? Does it depend? On what? Have your students do the critical thinking and see what they come up with after a more thorough analysis.
Explore using language to create “word pictures”
Ask students to close their eyes while you read them the first paragraph aloud, then give them the task of drawing a picture to represent what they just heard. After students share, have them re-read the paragraph to determine exactly how Author Patent created such a vivid picture with her words. Have your student use what they find to create their own word picture. Trade with a partner to draw, and then discuss how accurately partne drawings reflect what the author was thinking.
Social Studies
Explore Geography - Movement
This Minute delivers a perfect example of the theme of geographical movement. Use this Minute to reinforce the idea of food and shelter sources instigating movement. Talk with students about what circumstances would need to change in order to keep a population in one place. Then ask them to consider how the change in transportation affected their ability to move. Were they actually more likely to settle in one place after they could move more easily from one place to another? What’s that about??
Explore geography - maps
Have your students map out the spread of horses as domestic animals throughout the world and trace the horse’s movement throughout history. What can you learn from that kind of map?
Explore the role of animal domestication in human history
Have your students use this Minute as inspiration to investigate the introduction of domesticated animals in the timeline of human history. What different species have been domesticated? What purposes were served? Are there a variety of reasons humans invested their time in domesticating animals? Were all attempts successful? Think about alternate histories. What would it look like if er had not been able to domesticate dogs? Horses?
STEM
Explore the science of history - genetics
If they do a little digging, students might discover a recently published scientific study that changes what we thought we knew about the timeline of domesticated horses. Presented in a report by NPR, have students listen and then discuss the purpose of a scientific study like this one. What other ways can science change what we think we know about history?
Explore simple machines
Author Patent tells the reader how native americans designed the travois to assist dogs in transporting human goods. See if your students can design something to help carry heavy loads. How much can they carry in their arms? How much can they carry with their new design? Make it a contest and enjoy their creativity as you explain and explore the scientific concepts behind the activity.
Explore lead sentences - Questions
Add this Minute to the bank of Minutes that start out with a question. This Minute employs second person voice by asking you a question. Compare this Minute to others that start with a question - just search Minutes with the term question lead sentence. Do they all use second person? If not, what is the difference? Does third person work better? Does it depend? On what? Have your students do the critical thinking and see what they come up with after a more thorough analysis.
Explore using language to create “word pictures”
Ask students to close their eyes while you read them the first paragraph aloud, then give them the task of drawing a picture to represent what they just heard. After students share, have them re-read the paragraph to determine exactly how Author Patent created such a vivid picture with her words. Have your student use what they find to create their own word picture. Trade with a partner to draw, and then discuss how accurately partne drawings reflect what the author was thinking.
Social Studies
Explore Geography - Movement
This Minute delivers a perfect example of the theme of geographical movement. Use this Minute to reinforce the idea of food and shelter sources instigating movement. Talk with students about what circumstances would need to change in order to keep a population in one place. Then ask them to consider how the change in transportation affected their ability to move. Were they actually more likely to settle in one place after they could move more easily from one place to another? What’s that about??
Explore geography - maps
Have your students map out the spread of horses as domestic animals throughout the world and trace the horse’s movement throughout history. What can you learn from that kind of map?
Explore the role of animal domestication in human history
Have your students use this Minute as inspiration to investigate the introduction of domesticated animals in the timeline of human history. What different species have been domesticated? What purposes were served? Are there a variety of reasons humans invested their time in domesticating animals? Were all attempts successful? Think about alternate histories. What would it look like if er had not been able to domesticate dogs? Horses?
STEM
Explore the science of history - genetics
If they do a little digging, students might discover a recently published scientific study that changes what we thought we knew about the timeline of domesticated horses. Presented in a report by NPR, have students listen and then discuss the purpose of a scientific study like this one. What other ways can science change what we think we know about history?
Explore simple machines
Author Patent tells the reader how native americans designed the travois to assist dogs in transporting human goods. See if your students can design something to help carry heavy loads. How much can they carry in their arms? How much can they carry with their new design? Make it a contest and enjoy their creativity as you explain and explore the scientific concepts behind the activity.
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