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DS stands for Discovery Streaming.
Otter’s Extras!
Week 1
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Klutz Book of Knots: Intro and the bowline, Paper Mache octopus, Sea & Sky mobile, Multipaper octopus
Treasure Island
Octopus
History of
Fabulous
Understandin
(online)
videos online
Transportation: Ships
Animals:
g Oceans (DS)
(DS)
Myths &
Legends:
Monster of
the Deep: The
Giant Octopus
(DS)
Mollusks
Oceans –
come sail the
7 seas
Mollusks
paragraph &
questions
Mollusk
lapbook
Mollusks worksheet
What is a
mollusk?
Cover page
Anatomy tab
All in the family
Octopus facts
Squid facts
Octopus 8
facts
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 16-17
Octopus
RECIPE
Octopus hot
dogs and
goldfish
crackers
p. 49 Puffer fish puffed
up
READ
Eyewitness Classics: 20,000
Leagues under the Sea
Chapter 1
Chapter 2-3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Otter’s Extras!
Week 2
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
Sand to Sea
Marine Life of Hawaii
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
Klutz Book of Knots: the clove hitch and half hitches, Pirate balance craft and game
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2023/03292/index.html
Horrible
Histories Highly
Hawaiian (DS)
DVD
Fearless
Planet: Hawaii
(42:58)
(DS)
Robinson Crusader
(protecting the privacy
of Hawaii's Forbidden
Island) Snagfilms
Ocean’s:
Earth’s Final
Frontier (DS)
Scientific
American
Frontiers Going
Deep (HULU)
26:07 (goes
with the Oceans
for Every Kid
Book)
Underwater
World
BrainPop.com
Signal flags worksheet
Notebooking
Lapbook
Websites
Octopus shutter
map
Clip art
Snail observations
Slug minit
books
Google videos: Sea Chanteys
Santy Anno sea chantey
Slug lift the
shell
Snail petal
EXTRAS
Math
Recipe
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Loot the Pirate
ship math game
Adobo chicken
(Hawaiian Lu’au
dish)
p. 23 Sea
cucumber
p. 50 Blue Tang
READ
Eyewitness Classics: 20,000
Leagues under the Sea
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8-9
Chapter 10
End!
Otter’s Extras!
Week 3
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
The Magic School Bus on the
Ocean Floor
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Klutz Book of Knots: taut line hitch, Paper aquarium
Whale puppet (cool!), Whale sewing craft,
Over the Edge
(DS)
Ocean floor
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Muppet
Treasure
Island
(library)
Whales vs. Fish
Venn diagram
Whales lapbook
Cover
Whale Challenge
Whale of a
tale
Whale antics
Vocabulary
How long
Whale cards
Anatomy
Migration
map
All about
blubber
Lessons from Jonah
Classification
Websites
Compare &
Contrast
Voices of the sea – listen to different whales (very nice graphics!)
EXTRAS
Listen to
humpback
whale songs
Blubber
experiment
(page 7)
origami whale
with math
vocabulary
Math Activity
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 9 Humpback
whale
p. 51 Polkadot grouper
READ
Reading A to Z
Level O: Whales
Otter’s Extras!
Week 4
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Viking Adventure
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
Klutz Book of Knots: the better bow, the bow tie, pop-up crab
Water
Pressure
(05:40) (DS)
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
It’s Chemical:
Density in
Liquids (DS)
Buoyancy
Salt
Mapping the
World: Drawing
Greece
Viking
Adventure Unit
Mapping the
World:
Drawing the
Roman boot
Chapter 2
components
Chapter 3 components
Lapbook
Chapter 1
components
Websites
Viking voyage 1000 online game
EXTRAS
Recipe
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
A to Z worksheet(s)
Tuna Starfish
p. 22 Starfish
p. 1 columns list
p. 11-12 Sea turtle
Pronouns
READ
Reading A to Z
Level P: Seals,
Sea Lions and
Walruses
Dolphins: The
Wild Side
Snagfilms
Adjectives
Chapter 4
components
Otter’s Extras!
Week 5
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Viking Adventure
Adventures with the Vikings
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Klutz Book of Knots: the sheet bend and square knot, Viking coins, Viking Voyages game
http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/id148.html
Digging for the
Google Video: Planet Earth: Ice
Time Warp
Horrible
truth. The
Barbarians –
Worlds
Trio: Viking
Histories:
complete
Vikings
and Liking it
Vicious
season 2: Viking (online)
Google video: icebergs
(DS)
Vikings (DS)
Ships (library)
BrainPop.com
Amy Pak Leif
Eriksson map
Notebooking
Lapbook
Websites
Viking rune stone
worksheet
Conch shell
reproducible for
copywork
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 components
Chapter 8
components
components
components
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/launch_gms_viking_quest.shtml
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 26 Sea shells
p. 1 Mammals?
Reading A to Z worksheet
p. 2
compound
words
p. 1 Interesting facts
READ
Reading A to Z
Level P:
Manatees
Reading A to Z Level Z:
Vikings
p. 2
Antonyms
and
Synonyms
Otter’s Extras!
Week 6
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Viking Adventure
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
Klutz Book of Knots: fisherman’s knot, grass bend, Origami goldfish
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2005/00197/downloads/goldfish_e_ltr.pdf
Waves, Tides, and the
Coastal Environment
(24:00)
(DS)
DVD
Tides
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Chapter 9
components
Tide poem by
Henry W.
Longfellow
(use for
copywork or
handwriting)
Chapter 10
components
What’s in a wave?
Chapter 11
components
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Reading A to Z worksheets
Great White
Shark: Truth
Behind the
Legend
Snagfilms
p. 30
Hammerhead
p. 18-19 Crab
p. 2 pronouns
Crab salad
Recipe
READ
Reading A to Z
Level R:
Treasure Found
Mapping the
World:
Medieval T-O
map
Chapter 12
components
Otter’s Extras!
Week 7
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Viking Adventure
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Klutz Book of Knots: trucker’s hitch, constrictor knot, Mapping the world: star clocks activity
The Blue Planet:
Open Ocean
(library)
Waves
Tsunami
The Blue Planet:
Seasonal Seas (library)
Compass
Notebooking
Lapbook
Chapter 13
components
The Blue
Planet: Tidal
Seas (library)
Chapter 14
components
Mapping the world:
Iberian Peninsula
Chapter 15
components
Chapter 16
components
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 52 Longnosed butterfly
fish
p. 2 Summary
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 58-61 Lionfish
(challenging)
p. 3 Regular
and Irregular
verbs
p. 1 Cause and effect
READ
Reading A to Z
Level R:
Charlene’s Sea
of Cortez
Journal
Reading A to Z Level S:
Tsunami
p. 3 glossary
words
Otter’s Extras!
Week 8
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20-21
Viking Adventure
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Websites
Paper model of the Santa Maria; Klutz Book of Knots: ring knot and prusik knot,
Columbus hat, stand up Columbus character
Animated Hero
Steve
Plankton: Ocean
Jean Fritz’s
Classics:
Spangler
Drifters (11:00) (DS)
Christopher
Christopher
Science
Columbus
Columbus
Convection
(DS)
(29:41) (DS)
currents
video
Ocean
Currents
Mapping the
world: The
Greater Antilles
Columbus
discovery
map
Columbus poem
copywork
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
components
components
components
Your lunch then and now (online game)
Ocean
currents (cut
out the
graphics on
the bottom of
the page)
Chapter 20
components
Horrible
Histories
Captivating
Columbus
(DS)
Mapping the
world: Central
America &
the Caribbean
EXTRAS
Recipe
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Reading A to Z worksheets
Sea slug snack
(scroll down)
p. 53 Powder
Blue Tang
p. 1 crossword
puzzle
p. 27 Plankton
Set up
Playmobil and
reenact
Columbus’s
voyage
Act it out
READ
Reading A to Z
Level R: Sea
Turtles
Otter’s Extras!
Week 9
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
SCIENCE
Great White Shark: Ruler of
the Sea
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Websites
Klutz Book of Knots: timber hitch and the killeg hitch, Bits & Pieces (shark game)
http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/id89.html, pop-up shark
The Magic
School Bus:
Wet All Over
(DS)
Water cycle
(*warning –
billions of years
mentioned)
Science Weekly
sharks
“magazine”
Choose a level:
A, B, C, D, E, F
Teacher’s notes
Sharks lapbook
Vocabulary
Shark Shapes
Shark attacks
Water cycle
diagram
Shark sizes
graph
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Shark Bite Jello
p. 28-29 Shark
p. 1 Main idea
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 2
compound
words
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Q: Sharks
*warning
“millions of
Where sharks
live map and
worksheet
Diagram to label
Sense-ational
hunters flap
Shark parts tab book
All in the
What is a shark
shark family
triangle
Shark dissection webcast
Treaty of Tordesillas map
EXTRAS
Recipe
Tiger Shark:
Predator
Revealed
Snagfilms
Shark teeth
years” p. 4
Otter’s Extras!
Week 10
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
The Great White Shark
King of the Ocean
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
Klutz Book of Knots: the sheep shank and the rolling hitch, Killer whale and shark spinners
The Magic School Bus
Gets Eaten (25:53)
DVD
Food chains
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Mapping the
world: design a
compass rose
Matchbooks
(diet)
Lapbook
Websites
Learn to draw sharks
Or
Matchbook
(relatives)
Shark school of art
Species card and
pocket
Hurt/help flap
Where do
Babies
Shark safety
sharks live popup
Lost at Sea: Life or Death interactive game
http://dsc.discovery.com/survival/games/life-death-sea/life-death-sea.html
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Killer Whales:
Wolves of the
Sea
Snagfilms
p. 34-36
Anglerfish
p. 1 characters
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 2
Quotation
marks
p. 2 vocabulary
READ
Reading A to Z
Level W: Ocean
Quiz
Reading A to Z Level X:
Amazing Undersea
Food Webs
Otter’s Extras!
Week 11
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Cover in
timeline:
1789
Cover in
timeline:
1758-1805
Mutiny on the Bounty
Usborne: Nelson
SCIENCE
One Small Square: Coral Reef
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Lapbook
Klutz Book of Knots: the coil and the package knot, Condiment diver (science activity)
Nova: Lost at
Sea
Fearless Planet: Great
Barrier Reef (35:52)
(DS)
Food chains
Coral Reef
lapbook
Print out the
cover page
Fast facts
about the
Great Barrier
Reef
What is a coral
reef
Coral reef map
activity
Types of reefs
Colorful coral
reef creatures
Soft coral/hard
Importance of coral
reefs
Websites
John Harrison’s H-5 Clock
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 62 Coral and
coral reefs
Undersea creatures
EXTRAS
p. 20 Shrimp
Fried shrimp
Recipe
p. 1 Crossword
puzzle
READ
Reading A to Z
Level X: The
Coral reef
sorting cards
& pocket
Where in the
world are
coral reefs
Notebooking
Reading A to Z worksheets
Lost Ships of
the
Mediterranea
n Snagfilms
Science
Weekly
“magazine”
Choose a
level:
A, B, C, D, E
Teacher’s
notes
Reef
Otter’s Extras!
Week 12
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Pirate Diary
Pirate Diary unit
study
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Cover in
timeline 1716
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Klutz Book of Knots: the harness loop and the short end sheet bend, Loot the pirate ship math
game http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/id132.html
Dive into the deep sea ROV scene
1776: Molasses
Planet Earth
Flounder video
Time Warp
to rum song
DVD: ocean
segment (DS)
Trio: The Not
deep
so Jolly Roger
(DS)
*warning –
some “sailor
language” a
couple of
times: jack
a$$ and
“wh*re’s son”
BrainPop.com
Ocean zones
Notebooking
Skeleton
comparison
shutterfold
Lapbook
Energy pyramid
Giant clam
book
Anemone shutterfold
Tale of a parrot fish
Keeping it
clean
Something is
fishy twice
folded
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 41-42 Clown
fish
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 1 Glossary
words
Fish defense
flapbook
p. 43 Sea anemone
READ
Reading A to Z
Level W: Pirates
Otter’s Extras!
Week 13
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Sea Clocks: The Story of
Longitude
Pirate Diary
Pirate Diary unit
study
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Klutz Book of Knots: the figure 8 stopper, the incredible magic loop; Pop-up Barnacle
http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/id105.html
The Magic
The Magic School Bus
Nova: Lost at
School Bus Goes
Takes a Dive (Coral
Sea (the
to Mussel Beach
reef) (DS)
search for
(tides) (DS)
longitude)
(library)
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Websites
Pirate poem
(pages 6-9)
Famous pirates (p. 11)
Cut out and paste onto
construction paper
with border
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Using_the_sextant_edit1.gif
Sextant animation
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 32-33 Ray
p. 1 Main idea &
details
p. 37 Eel
p. 2 Commas
in a list
READ
p. 3 compound words
Reading A to Z
Level R: Tide
pools
Otter’s Extras!
Week 14
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Pirate Diary
Pirate Diary unit
study
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Websites
Klutz Book of Knots: practice knots, Cut & Assemble paper clam
http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/id127.html
Mapping the world pdf: Board game: Pirates of the Mediterranean (page 138)
Life Science:
Invertebrates
(20:00)(DS)
Cnidarians
Invertebrates
(jellyfish)
Sponges
Classification
Six kingdoms
Carry on Mr.
Bowditch book
study
vocabulary
Jellyfish lapbook
Cover page
Planet Earth
DVD: Shallow
Seas
Crossword puzzle
Classification
twice folded
Predators T-book
Lifecycle strips
Finding jellies
& dinner
matchbooks
Jellyfish splat game (like space invaders)
Anatomy
shutter fold
Fast facts file
folders
On the move
EXTRAS
Recipe
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Jiggling jellyfish
p. 24-25
Jellyfish
p. 1 Summaries
Reading A to Z worksheets
READ
A to Z level O:
You’re a
Jellyfish
Reading A to Z Level Z:
Robinson Crusoe
p. 2 Suffixes
p. 3
Vocabulary
Otter’s Extras!
Week 15
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Seabird
Chapter 1-3
Chapter 4-6
Chapter 7-9
Chapter 10-12
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
BrainPop.com
Klutz Book of Knots: practice knots,
Glow-in-the-dark fish painting project
Prototype This:
Virtual Sea
Adventure (DS)
Fish, Gills
Notebooking
Carry on Mr.
Bowditch book
study
Activities
DVD
Voyage 1
map
Voyage 2 map
Fish anatomy
Parts of a ship
Lapbook
Hunting and
protection
Size fan
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
p. 55-57 Clown
triggerfish
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 1 Character’s
traits
p. 39 Swordfish
p. 2 verbs and
adverbs
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Y:
Odysseus and
the Bag of
Winds
p. 3 Homophones
Civil War Gold
Snagfilms
Voyage 3 map
Otter’s Extras!
Week 16
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Seabird
Chapter 13-17
Chapter 18-20
Chapter 21-24
Chapter 25-27
End!
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Klutz Book of Knots: practice knots, bean bag squid
Smash Lab:
Long-Range
Lifeboat
(40:56) (DS)
Cnidarians
(jellyfish)
Giant squid
Carry on Mr.
Bowditch book
study
Voyage 4 map
Voyage 5 map
Activity 1:
Nat’s journal
entry
Atlantic Ocean
lapbook and
unit study
Ocean
occupations
Geography terms flap
book
Maggie poem
My sea
creature story
Colors of the ocean
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
American
Experience:
The Great
Transatlantic
Cable
(1866)(DS)
Oceans of the
world map
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
A to Z worksheets
p. 13-15 Squid
p. 1 Problem
and solution
p. 45 Seahorse
p. 2 Finish the
sentences
READ
Reading A to Z
Level W:
Atlantic
Crossing
My ocean
poem
Otter’s Extras!
Week 17
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Usborne: Titanic
Titanic The Ship of Dreams
Inside the Titanic
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Klutz Book of Knots: practice knots, Bottlenose dolphin paper model
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3157/bottlenose-dolphin/index.html,
Dolphin and whale mobile
Unsafe Waters
Aleutian:
Snagfilms: Whales in
Secrets of the
(DS)
Steaming to
Crisis
Titanic
Disaster (DS)
Snagfilms
Dolphins
Dolphin types
worksheet
Dolphin lapbook
Cover page
Dolphin or
porpoise
flapbook
Lapbook
Dolphin
anatomy
Dolphin behavior
matchbook
Echolocation
and pod
Fun facts fan
Dolphin
family
Dolphins are
mammals trifold
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 6 Dolphin
p. 2 cause and
effect
p. 47 Pipefish
p. 3 Serial
commas
READ
Reading A to Z
Level T: Titanic
Treasure
Titanic
Revealed
(library)
Otter’s Extras!
Week 18
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
The Little Ships: The Heroic
Rescue at Dunkirk in WWII
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
BrainPop.com
DVD
Klutz Book of Knots: practice knots, Make a Pagoo diorama (use p. 3 of this pdf for some
printable sea creatures including a hermit crab), Make a submarine periscope
penguins
submarines
Days That
Shook the
World: Attack
On Pearl Harbor
(DS)
Search for the
Battleship
Bismarck
Snagfilms
Battle for Midway
Snagfilms
Comparing
lengths
Classification
PH words pocket
Beyond the
Movie: Pearl
Harbor
Snagfilms
Notebooking
Lapbook
Will work for
fish T-fold
Kinds of
whales
Websites
EXTRAS
1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life
Reading A to Z Worksheets
p. 7 Orca
p. 1 Fill in the
table
p. 48 Pufferfish
p. 2 Sentence
writing
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Y: Ships of
Discovery
Words in
dolphin
Pearl Harbor:
Day Of Infamy
Pearl Harbor The Legacy of
Attack
Snagfilms
Otter’s Extras!
Week 19
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
Guinness World Records:
Wild Weather
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Storm Chasers:
Hail to the
Beast (40:55)
(DS)
The Magic
School Bus
Kicks Up a
Storm (DS)
Sun
Understandin
g: Flight (DS)
Climate types
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Websites
Seasons
Solstice and
equinox
Weather
station symbols
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/weather/index.htm
EXTRAS
The Courage to Soar
Educator Guide (very
optional)
What makes the
weather song
What is
climate song
p. 19-27 (Read)
Alternate sled
kite activity
p. 38-39
Timeline
cards
p. 90-92
Aeronautics Educator Guide
Young Scientist Kit: Weather
and States of Matter
Reading A to Z worksheets
Aviation pioneers
(read)
p. 53-60
Why is it hot
in summer
song?
Rotor Motor
p.61
p. 1 main ideas
p. suffix word
cards
READ
Reading A to Z
Level R: Storm
Chasers
Otter’s Extras!
Week 20
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
The Magic School Bus Inside
a Hurricane
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Storm Chasers:
Mutiny on the
Plains (DS)
NOVA Wright
Brothers’
Flying
Machine
Snagfilms
Ice age
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Websites
Around the
World in 80
Days vocabulary
assignments
http://www.first-to-fly.com/
Around the World in 80 Days interactive game
http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/around-the-world-in-80-days/
Google Earth: Around the World in 80 Days place marks (see the locations mentioned in the
book marked on Google Earth)
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/12/around_the_goog.html
EXTRAS
The Courage to Soar
Educator Guide (very
optional)
A to Z worksheets
Where is the
stratosphere
song
Wright Brothers
(read)
p. 67-75
p.1 Cause and
effect equations
What does the glass of
a greenhouse do song
The Matter of
Air (read) p.
116-125
p. 2 Insert
commas
Solar bag experiment
p. 2 Number
abbreviations
READ
Reading A to Z
Level T: Severe
Weather
Reading A to Z Level W:
Hurricanes
Air power
experiment
p. 133
p. 3 verbs and
adverbs
Otter’s Extras!
Week 21
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
The Wright Brothers
A Flying Start
Wilber and Orville Wright
Young Fliers
Both boys took
after Grandpa
The velvet
collar and
cuffs
Any old bones today?
The farmer
and the
cornstalk
Fun and Fear
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Storm Chasers:
Nightmare on
DOW Street
(DS)
Across the
Atlantic:
Behind the
Lindbergh
Legend
Snagfilms
Humidity
Sun
Notebooking
Websites
EXTRAS
Humidity song
Air experiment
1-2
(starts on page
134)
The Courage to Soar
Educator Guide (very
optional)
Reading A to Z worksheets
4 forces of flight
p. 156-160
(read)
p. 1 Comparison
chart
Highs and
Lows song
Air
experiment 34
Air
experiment 78
Thrust & drag (read) p.
203-209
Lift (read)
p. 185-190,
200
p. 201 Airfoil
experiment
p. 2 Spelling
with the suffix
“ion”
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Y:
Catching Air
Air experiment 5-6
Controlling a
plane (read)
p. 232-240,
p.245
Air
experiment 910
Otter’s Extras!
Week 22
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
The Glorious Flight
Wilber and Orville Wright
Young Fliers
Orville’s army
A toy that
flew
Flying fiddlesticks
The brave
money
makers
The Wright
and Johnston
Circus
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
Make a pinwheel (page 4)
Timeline
Mapping
Captain's Log
The Glorious
Flight (1909)
Flight timeline
minit book
Airplane vocabulary
Across the
English
Channel book
Card game and
pocket
Label and
airplane
France flag
Storm Chasers:
No Place Like
Kansas (40:55)
(DS)
Wind
Wind energy
Weather
Notebooking
Lapbook
DVD
BrainPop
Louis Bleriot Minit book
Websites
EXTRAS
Why does the
wind blow song
The Courage to Soar
Educator Guide (very
optional)
Louis Bleriot
(read) p. 85-94
Warm and cold fronts
song
p. 95 Venn
diagram
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Z: Violent
Weather
Onomatopoei
a Minit book
Roman
numerals
book
The Magic
School Bus
Goes on Air
(DS)
Otter’s Extras!
Week 23
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Wilber and Orville Wright
Young Fliers
In and out of
trouble
The boys
begin to
invent
Bicycle pedals and
gliders
A great day in
history (End!)
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Snowflake worksheet
Storm Chasers:
Road Hazards
(41:52) (DS)
History of
Transportatio
n: Airplanes
(DS)
Earth’s
atmosphere
BrainPop.com
Snowflakes
Temperature
Notebooking
Snowflake and
hailstone
worksheet
Websites
EXTRAS
Water cycle
song
READ
Snowflake,
snowflake
song
Otter’s Extras!
Week 24
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Things That Fly
From Balloons to Jet Planes
Ocean of air,
When the wind
blows
Lighter than
air, Hot air or
gas
Ballooning, Famous
balloons & dirigibles
Heavier than
air, birds
Flapping
follies,
Searching for
the secret of
wings
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Storm Chasers:
Tornado
Intercept Tank
(41:29) (DS)
American
Experience:
Amelia
Earhart (DS)
Thunder
storms
Amelia
Earhart
Rainbows
Hands of a
Child: Amelia
Earhart
Timeline
accordion
book
Cover
Double
flapbook
Notebooking
Diamond book
Mini poster
Card book
(Charles
Lindbergh)
Lapbook
Divided card
book
Vocabulary
Websites
EXTRAS
Aeronautics Educator Guide
Steve Spangler
Science: The
science of
lightening video
Plan to Fly
There p. 103
p.108
International
Phonetic
How clouds are formed
song
p. 111-112
plan to fly
there , pilot’s
flight plan
cards
alphabet
READ
Otter’s Extras!
Week 25
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Things That Fly
From Balloons to Jet Planes
The birth of
powered flight,
Flying
Civil &
military
planes,
Famous
propeller
aircraft
Helicopters, jets
Commercial
jet aircraft,
How grandad
used to fly
Typical flight
today,
Highways of
the sky
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Make a rain stick
Storm Chasers:
Tornado
Showdown
(40:41) (DS)
Clouds
Time Warp
Trio: The High
and the
Flighty (DS)
Weathering
Notebooking
Lapbook
Trifold book
Matchbook
Flat box book
Card pocket
Flip-flap book
Trapezoid
book
Map
Newspaper
pocket
Websites
EXTRAS
Reading A to Z worksheet
Steve Spangler
cloud in a bottle
video
p. 1 timeline
Stratus and Cumulus
song
p. 2 underline
the subject(s)
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Q: Amelia
Earhart
Otter’s Extras!
Week 26
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
Tornadoes by
Seymour Simon
Hurricanes by Seymour
Simon
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Storm Chasers:
When Parts Fly
(42:41) (DS)
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
BrainPop.com
Smash Lab:
HurricaneProof House
(DS)
Natural
disasters
A hurricane’s life
worksheet
Notebooking
Websites
EXTRAS
Steve Spangler
Science
Tornado in a
bottle video
What makes
the lightening
song
Steve
Spangler
Science Fire
tornado video
Experiment: use
a tornado tube
to recreate
what was seen
on the video
READ
The hurricane
song
Smash Lab:
Bomb-Proof
Plane
Otter’s Extras!
Week 27
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Days that
Shook the
World: Disaster
in the Sky (DS)
Air Force One
Snagfilms
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Websites
EXTRAS
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 1 definition
p. 2
contractions
READ
Reading A to Z
Level R: Sky
Diving
Otter’s Extras!
Week 28
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
Astronomy for Every Kid
p. 76 Radiate
p. 78 Blackout
(eclipse)
p. 80 Minieclipse
p. 82 Shut out
p. 84 Swirls (use a real
prism)
p. 86 Clock compass
p. 90 Mirage
p. 92 Direct
Stars by Seymour Simon
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Print out and make a start chart
Standard
Deviants School
Astronomy: The
Basics (DS)
Gravity
Websites
Galileo Galilei
The Sun
Planets lapbook
Lapbook
Standard Deviants
School Astronomy:
From Galileo to Gravity
(DS)
Why we need
the sun
Layers of the
sun
Shining stars
A star is born
Star facts fan
Sun facts
Cyberchase online math game – Star Gazing
EXTRAS
Young Scientists Kit: Stars,
Planets and Forces
What is gravity
song
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 1 Information
chart
What is the Milky Way
song
p. 2 Write a
paragraph
READ
Reading A to Z
Level S: Solar
System
Space
dictionary
p. 96
Distortion
Otter’s Extras!
Week 29
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Astronomy for Every Kid
p. 104 Night
lights
p. 106 Moving
target
p. 110 Shiner
p. 112
Spinner
Earth by Elaine
Landau
The Moon by
Elaine Landau
p. 114 Changes
p. 118 Face forward
p. 120 Heavy
p. 124
Splatter
p. 126 Too
much
SCIENCE
True Books Series
The Sun by Elaine
Landau
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Cosmic poetry (print onto magnetic sheet paper from staples), Moon clock
Standard
Deviants School
Astronomy:
Earth & the
Moon (DS)
Earth
Standard Deviants
School Astronomy: The
Sun (DS)
Moon
Solar System
BrainPop.com
Standard
Deviants
School
Astronomy:
The Solar
System (DS)
Outer solar
system
Eclipse
Black holes
Moon phases
Notebooking
Moon phases
flipbook
Lapbook
Websites
Exploring the
moon
timeline and
worksheet
Moon’s
surface
Moon “book”
(p.14-22)
Moon characteristics
Weighing in on
Far side of the
Black holes
the moon
moon
simple fold
Cyberchase online math game: Stop Hacker’s rocket (percents)
Moon Olympics
EXTRAS
Reading A to Z worksheets
How big is the moon
p. 1 Cause and
effect
Scholastic
Moon
mini-book
p. 2
Adjectives
READ
Reading A to Z
Level V: The Sun
Otter’s Extras!
Week 30
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
DK Escape from Earth
Prologue,
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Mercury by
Elaine Landau
Mars by
Elaine Landau
Jupiter by Elaine
Landau
Saturn by
Elaine Landau
p. 12 Too
close
p. 14 Quicker
p. 16 Hidden
p. 18 Cover up
p. 18 Thick
p. 22 Hot box
SCIENCE
Venus
p. 6 Cooler
p. 10 Bent
Astronomy for Every Kid
p. 28 Blue sky
p. 32 Sun
prints
(purchase kit
ahead of
time)
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
NOVA - Battle
of the XPlanes
Snagfilms &
HULU
DVD
Mercury
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Planets
distance
Planets size
Planets
temperature
BrainPop.com
Venus
Notebooking
Planets mini
book graphics
(page 3)
Lapbook
Planets gravity
Planets solid or gas
Planets
moons
Planets
rotation
Planets find
your age
Websites
EXTRAS
A to Z worksheets
p. 2 Venn
diagram
p. 3 Past and
present tense
verbs
p. 4 Pronunciation
READ
Reading A to Z
Level U:
Jupiter’s Secrets
Reading A to Z Level X:
Venus
Otter’s Extras!
Week 31
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
DK Escape from Earth
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Uranus by
Elaine Landau
Neptune by
Elaine Landau
Pluto: From Planet to
Dwarf by Elaine Landau
Beyond Pluto
by Elaine
Landau
p. 34 Red spot
p. 38 Hot
p. 42 Charged
p. 44 See
through
p. 50 Curves (use paint)
p. 52 Speedy
p. 54 On the
move
p. 58
Expanding
SCIENCE
True Books Series
Astronomy for Every Kid
Comets,
Meteors and
Asteroids by
Seymour
Simon
p. 64 Lifter
p. 68 Satellite
crash
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
When We Left
Earth:
Ordinary
Supermen
(DS)
DVD
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Comets
Asteroids
Animals in
space
Exoplanets
How is Pluto different
from the Earth?
Comets and meteors
matchbook
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Satellites
matchbook
Lapbook
Parts of a
comet
Comet fact
envelope
book
Websites
EXTRAS
Beep, Beep
song (satellites)
What is a shooting star
song
READ
Otter’s Extras!
Week 32
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
DK Escape from Earth
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
(End!)
SCIENCE
Galaxies by
Seymour Simon
Find the Constellations
by H.A. Rey
Astronomy for Every Kid
p. 5-10
p. 11-19
p. 20-25
p. 26-33
p. 132 Shrinking
p. 136 Spreader
p. 138
Brighter
p. 140
Daytime stars
p. 142 Streaks
p. 146 Hazy
p. 148
Unequal
p. 150 Burn
out
p. 152
Silhouette
p. 154 Spirals
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
Galactic mobile
When We Left
Earth: Friends
and Rivals
(DS)
DVD
Life cycle of
stars
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Galactic
Address
worksheet
Hands of a Child
Galaxies
lapbook
Activity 1:
Vocabulary
Activity 2: What
is a galaxy?
Activity 3:
What are 3
types of
galaxies?
Activity 5: Stellar
populations
Activity 7:
black holes
Activity 6: Messier
numbers
Activity 8:
Black holes
fact or fiction
or Types of
galaxies
accordion
Activity 4:
Irregular
galaxies
Websites
EXTRAS
Why does the
sun shine song
Why are stars
different
colors song
Why do stars twinkle
song
Zodiac
constellations
READ
Otter’s Extras!
Week 33
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
SCIENCE
Find the Constellations
by H.A. Rey
Astronomy for Every Kid
p. 34-39
p. 40-47
p. 48-55
p. 56-64
(End!)
p. 158 Twinkling
star
p. 162 up or
down
p. 164 Sharp
p. 166 Simple
p. 168 Reflector
p. 176 How high
p. 182
Collector
p. 184 Around
the world
p. 188
Bouncer
p. 194 Blast
off
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
When We Left
Earth:
Landing the
Eagle (DS)
DVD
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Telescopes
Constellation
Haiku
Activity 9: What
are active
galaxies?
Activity 10:
Constellations
Galaxies
Black holes
Activity 11:
Milky Way
Activity 13: Star
clusters
Activity 15:
Andromeda
Activity 12:
Historical
figures
Activity 14: Nebulae
Activity 16:
Giants in the
sky
Websites
EXTRAS
On the Moon Educator Guide
p. 14-15 launch
it straw rocket
activity
Rockets Educator Guide
A to Z worksheets
p. 3 Order of
events
p. 16-19 Touchdown
activity
A pictorial
history of
rockets
(maybe paste
sections onto
a flip book)
p. 2-11
p. 2
vocabulary
READ
Reading A to Z
Level W: Joe
Pop can hero
engine
p. 40-45
p. 3 compound
adjectives
3…2…1…Puff
rocket
stability
activity
p. 46-51
Kittinger
Otter’s Extras!
Week 34
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Neil Armstrong: Young Flier
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
p. 196 Staging
p. 200 Flash
(need
wintergreen
candies)
Chapter 3
Chapter 4-5
p. 206 Spheres
p. 208 Stop
p. 212
Protector
p. 214 Space
suit
SCIENCE
Astronomy for Every Kid
p. 216 Sweaty
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Notebooking
BrainPop.com
Lapbook
Astronaut Ice Cream
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/1796
In the Shadow
American Experience:
of the Moon
Race to the Moon (DS)
(DS)
Astronaut’s
Crash landing
outfit
cut & paste
activity
Apollo Project
Neil Armstrong
Lapbook
Chapter 1 items
Chapter 2
items
When We Left
Earth: The
Explorers (DS)
NASA symbol
sheet
Chapter 3 items
Chapter 4 and
5 items
Moon maze
Connect the dots
Word search
Websites
EXTRAS
Launching to the Moon and
Beyond Fun Pages
On the Moon Educator Guide
Ares V Rocket
Ares I Rocket
Ares I cut-out
Build a rover
activity
p. 20-24
On target activity
p. 30-34
READ
Otter’s Extras!
Week 35
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Neil Armstrong: Young Flier
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9-10
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
The Space
Shuttle (DS)
BrainPop.com
International
space station
Notebooking
Lapbook
Chapter 6 items
When We Left
Earth: The
Shuttle (DS)
Astronaut’s
outfit
Chapter 7
items
Chapter 8 items
Chapter 9 and
10 items
Shuttle launch to orbit
sequence
(p. 93)
Rocket s
(p. 95)
Websites
EXTRAS
3…2…1 Liftoff! Educator
Guide
Space shuttle
sequence cards
(p. 91)
Space shuttle
parts (p.92)
READ
Reading A to Z
Level O: Sally
Ride
Otter’s Extras!
Week 36
Resources
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
HISTORY
Neil Armstrong: Young Flier
Chapter 11-12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
SCIENCE
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
Activities
DVD
Destination
Mars (DS)
When We Left
Earth: A
Home in
Space (DS)
BrainPop.com
Notebooking
Lapbook
Why explore
space?
Chapter 11-12
items
Chapter 13
items
Chapter 14 items
Websites
EXTRAS
Reading A to Z worksheets
p. 1 Timeline
p. 2 Articles
READ
Reading A to Z
Level Z:
Satellites
p. 3 Vocabulary
Chapter 15
items