I love starting the year with reading
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing! This year I integrated EVERYTHING around this book! We did ELA, math, science, social studies, and community building using this novel as our centerpiece!
We studied character traits and wrote an acrostic poem as a class about Peter and then each student wrote one about themselves. This helped the students get to know each other better. We also wrote a class book,
Tales of a Fourth Grade Something, about times at school when we've felt like "something" instead of "nothing"!
Students experimented with magnets to see what in our room was magnetic, not magnetic, and had parts that were/weren't magnetic. They had a blast sticking magnets all over the room! We used our knowledge of attracting/repelling and character traits to decide which character traits or behaviors attract and/or repel others.
For social studies, we found where Peter lived (NYC) on a map and located the latitude and longitude. We then did this for where we live. You could also review map scale, hemispheres, etc. while doing this activity. Students also did a presentation for how to improve community in our classroom. As a class, we made a chart of what makes a good presentation. From that, I typed up a simple rubric to score each student during the presentation.
This is just a brief overview/sample of what we did. For a copy of my PBL and lesson plans to see ALL of the activities that we did, click on the links below!
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Thank you for posting your PBL. Our district just started using the PBL model and I was at a lost. Thank you for your help.
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