Gregor & Prophecy of the Bane.htm

TASK 1: What is the difference between something real and a story?

TASK 2: What are the basic needs of the living things in the Gregor story? How do they find them in their habitat? How can we understand their real size?

Lesson Plan:
Day 1: Look through the first book, "Gregor the Overlander" and identify the creatures the author describes. The students should take special care to note the descriptions and size of the animals.

Day 2 & 3: Use the library resources below to find the actual size of the creature and their food. Write down how much each animal eats. Estimate how much bigger the creature is in the books and estimate how much a creature that size would have to eat. Use butcher paper to show the size of an Underworld bat, rat, cockroach and spider. Mark the actual size of the animal also.

Print Resources:	Bats: 599.4 Spiders: 595.4 Cockroaches: 595.7 Rats: World Book Vol. R
Websites:	Bats- Go to http://www.batcon.org/ and find the article, THE LIVES OF Mexican Free-tailed Bats by MERLIN D. TUTTLE Rats: http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals/rat.html Roach: http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html Spiders: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm

Read Chapter 1 aloud, locate Central Park or New York city on the map.

Day 4: Read Chapters 2 & 3 aloud and discuss predictions. Read Chapter 4 at home.

Day 5 : Discuss Prophecy of the Bane.

Watch the video on the vampire bat at:

Website Video

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/archive/

Read Chapter 5 aloud. Read Chapter 6 at home.

Day 6:Try your skill at hitting "blood balls." Read Chapter 7 & 8 aloud.

Day 7:Try your olfactory skills with the "Smelly Match" game.

Read Chapter 9 at home

Day 8: What is echolocation ?

Website:

http://www.batcon.org/

Try out your skills at echolocation. Practice making a clicking noise with your tongue then go into the hallway. Close your eyes, click your tongue and see if you can tell how close you are to the wall.
Read Chapter 10 aloud. Read Chapter 11 & 12 at home.

Day 9:

Webquest:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/bats.htm (write on your own paper)

Read Chapter 13 at home

Day 10: Today we are just reading Chapters 14 & 15 aloud.
Read Chapter 16 at home.

Day 11: Today we are just reading Chapters 17 & 18 aloud.
Read Chapter 19 at home.

Day 12 & 13: Part 2 Speed Round Activity
We are dividing into partners and traveling around the library to find the answers to the questions in this packet. Click Here to see the packet. Read Chapters 20 & 21 at home.

Station 1: Strange Foods	Webpage: http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/food/features/n_10380/
Station 2: Firefly Anatomy	Book: Fireflies by Cari Meister
Station 3: Fireflies Glow	Book: Ladybugs and Other Beetles by Steven Otfinoski
Station 4:	Webpage: http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/flash/roaches/pg000096.html
Station 5: Venom It Ain't All Bad	Online Resource page: Kids Search (Searchasaurus)
Station 6: Giant Squid	Webpage: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/squid/label/
Station 7: Whirlpool	Print: World Book Encyclopedia
Station 8: Swarm	Online Resources page: World Book Online, keywords: insect swarm Print: Dictionary

Day 14 +
From here on in, we will be just reading & discuss plots points. I can't stand having to stop and start when I get to the best part of a book!

Teacher's Notes

Book Specifics
Part 1: The Mission, Chapters 1-9
Part 2: The Hunt, Chapters 10-18
Part 3: The Maze, Chapters 19-27
Chapters are generally short.

Resources:

Print:
Bats: 599.4
Spiders: 595.4
Cockroaches: 595.7
Rats: World Book Vol. R
Whirlpools: World Book Vol. W
Fireflies: 595.76

Online:
bats: http://www.batcon.org/
bats: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/index.phtml
bats: http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/batquest.html
bats: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chirolh.html
bats: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/HomeworkHelper/
bats: http://www.direct.ca/pestpage/bats1.html
bats: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
bats: http://teacher.scholastic.com/webquest/science/bats.htm
bats: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/archive/
bats: http://lhs.berkeley.edu/BATQUIZ/BatQuiz.html
bats: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/bats.htm
rat: http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals/rat.html
rat: http://www.animaland.org/asp/petcare/rat411.asp
roach: http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html
spiders: http://www.earthlife.net/chelicerata/s-feeding.html
spiders: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm
spiders: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2004/3/spiders.cfm
all: http://www.pestworldforkids.org/home.asp
squids: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/squid.html
squids: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
squids: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0927_050927_giant_squid.html
squids: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/giantsquid/Giantsqprintout.shtml
food: http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/food/features/n_10380/
food: http://www.weird-food.com/

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