Lesson Topic/Title: What Book Am I?

Author: Sue Lombardi and Joan Vanderbush e-mail: books@pompton.llnj.fred.org

http://www.eduplace.com/projects/whatbook.html

Introduction: Student groups will write riddles about books, giving 3-4 facts about setting, plot, characters, author, etc. Riddles will be exchanged with another participating class to be solved. Students will use their past reading experiences and library skills to solve the riddles. Answers will be returned to the sending class and checked for accuracy.

Content Area(s) and Grade Level: English, Language Arts, and Reading, Grades 6-9

Integrated Discipline: Reading, Writing, and Technology

Objectives: The students will:

-Write riddles about books.

-Identify setting, plot, characters, and author(s).

-Students will use past their past reading and library skills to solve riddles.

-E-mail address

-Creation of his/her own riddles, and an answer key to send to his/her riddle partner.

-English journal, log, or notebook to keep track of information.

-A computer disk to save riddles etc.

-Computer with a CD Rom

Review with the students the riddles we have gone over in class, guide them as they create their own practice riddles, and share them amongst the class for a little practice. Explain that they will have to use their past experiences with the library and the different search engines to solve the riddles. Also, students must keep all means of communication appropriate, because they are representing their school.

Tell students they are the authors of their riddles. After they work cooperatively with their Internet partner, they will present some of their information to the rest of the class. They will also scan photographs of themselves to their partner. The students will read and discuss his/her riddles. We would like as many participants as possible. All classes will be matched with another class.

Students will record their findings on the computer to be saved on his/her disk. The students must make sure that they communicate occasionally with their Internet partner to keep them up to date. The students may present their information however they wish, but they must incorporate technology, since the whole idea of the project is to link technology to the curriculum. (Make sure all sources are properly sited.)

The students will present their information to the class, and then the class as a whole will evaluate the entire class project.

We want to see if the student’s presentation portrayed whether or not they benefited from working with others outside of their own classroom, and we also want to see if the students benefited from collaborating and hearing other students’ ideas.

We would chose this lesson, because it is a positive way of incorporating technology into the curriculum and the students benefit a great deal. The student has the opportunity to use his/her own creativity to come up with his/her own riddles, and the students also have the opportunity to hear what riddles other people come up with. This project also requires practice in reading to writing skills.