Nigerian Folktales Unit!
April - Present
Students are working on ways to save Queen Anne's Island from an environmental crisis! To do this, we are acquiring knowledge about nonrenewable & renewable resources, alternative sources of energy, ways to eliminate pollution, and soil (specifically soil erosion).
There are a lot of things to learn so we can help the island and plan a Preservation Park for the island natives to enjoy!
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Nigerian Folktales Unit!
Nov. - April
We began our unit by learning about Nigeria. Students learned:
-where Nigeria is located -that Nigeria is a country that has states
-how Nigeria's geography compares to America's
-what languages are spoken there
-capital, population, flag, and currency
Students also became experts on one of the following topics:
*education*
*housing*
*food*
*climate*
*transportation*
*chores/jobs*
Students then created a collage that showed the
differences in that topic between America and Nigeria. :)
We then learned about what a folktale is, what elements are in a folktale, what a moral is and what types of morals are in Nigerian folktales. Students enjoyed many Nigerian Folktales and learned how important the morals are within them.
As a final project, students created Museum Boxes to show everything they learned about Nigeria!
Some of the ways we learned to solve these mysteries included:
- Patterns
- Codes
- Logic Boxes
- Limited Information
Once we had solved numerous math mysteries, we wrote our own!
These came out amazing and students were very proud of their writing!
