Teacher Recommended Resources - Wood & Paper

These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project. Rev. 3/20/08

FOSSWEB.com – works great for extending the lessons in the computer lab!

WOOD

Make a book of things made from wood & send home to share with parents on a rotating basis
 Created a book of Tree Treasures – gifts from trees

Color the posters “Foss talks about pine, redwood, & linden trees”

Make a paper toolbox & tools

To photos of trees in our schoolyard/neighborhood and with a “share pen” created a book and wrote about them. – could do through the year for one tree, noting seasonal changes.

Make a classroom tree

Students did a final summary of their wood sculpture

Wood show & tell time with items from home

Make a class book where they draw 4 wood items found in their home (done at home & returned)

Made sawdust/shavings pictures with glue (like sand pictures)
- used sawdust mixture to make bird whistles

Speakers: Have a builder come and speak
 - cabinet maker
- Wood worker demonstration
- a dad came in and showed his tools and his wood working projects
- Wood Workers Depot – Green Bay

Took a field trip to 2 houses in different stages of construction

Toured the middle school woodworking shop

Had a Lumberjack Day at the end of the unit
- served pancakes & syrup
- held tree relays
- made a wood sculpture (had older students help)

Keep a woodworking bench in the classroom all year long – students love to create wood creations!
- Added a woodworkers area (workbench) to the classroom
 
Logging Congress at the Area – 1st week of Sept.

Soaking some samples in water to measure weight, size, & color changes, and absorption

Visit a lumberyard

Make sequence books – a page for each activity

BOOKS: Changes, changes by Pat Hutchins
Puddle Jumper – How a Toy is Made  by Ann Morris
What was it Before it was a Chair? by Rosera Shrekhis
Paul Bunyan
Three Little Pigs
A House is a House for Me
Lorax by Dr. Seuss (book/video)
Wood by Rebel Williams
Bruno the Carpenter
On Sand Island – Jacqueline B. Martin

Class books …All About Trees
  … A Tree can be

After each part, the students were given a “research paper” to complete.  I.E. draw a picture of what happened in the experiment, fill in the blank with the correct word. All were compiled for a “Wood” booklet.

Adopted a classroom tree and watched it change through the seasons

Used frozen juice can lids for wheels

Made popsicle stick boxes and glued shells on the top

Had the students bring in different types of paper and hung them on a clothes line to categorize, compare, contrast, and test.

Created a wood book – from Ms. Korshaun @ Doty

A parent helped build bird houses, and bird feeders for the outdoor classroom

Field trip: Paper Discovery Center – Appleton – also good for background knowledge for teacher
 www.paperdiscoverycenter.org
 - to Home Depot and built bird houses

PAPER

Georgia Pacific – paper cycle

“Paper Party” by Meish Goldish ( McMillan Whole Lang. Big Books)

Paper Party – at the end of the kit we had a party of paper hats, paper cups, & napkins.  We ate a paper snack (stix w/flavored powder inside).  We made paper flowers & paper rain (confetti cut in a bag).

Made paper hats & had a parade

Paper jewelry – for “Mother’s Day” we make paper pins using a cookie or candy molds, press pulp in, let dry, unmold, paint, and hot glue a pin on the back.

Environmental centers have materials on trees.

Being in the Valley, we had a team come from Appleton Paper to make paper from pulp with the students.

Made paper chains

Performance assessment – construct a container using paper that will carry 5 markers across the classroom
- must use what they’ve discovered about the properties of paper
- one child covered his structure with wax paper incase it rained

Learned about the artist Henri Matisse – made collages using colored paper

Paper making video from WI Paper workers
Video – “Paper” by Backyard Safari

Christmas card envelops

Piñata

Traced a container everyday – had students guess which container
- improved spatial ability

KWL activities on concept of paper
Wee Recyclers – kindergarten program through DNR Bureau of Information & Education
 - speaker from recycling center in Neenah – told how large scale recycling is done
Paper mache fruits & veggies or Easter baskets

Comparison matrix for comparing 2 paper samples

Graphs: what is your favorite kind of paper?
- Which paper is best for making a poster?
- Favorite activity of entire unit

Dictation by students on what was learned after each experiment

Books: Lucy’s Picture
The Paper Crane
Tree of Cranes
Paper Bag Process
The Piñata Man
From Tree to Paper - big book – available through Sundance C0.
The Amazing Paper Book – Paulette Bourgeois
Paper by Edwards & Harris

Speaker – an artist who makes or used paper 

Put glitter on handmade paper to decorate- can use for a holiday card or Mother’s Day card

Color the water used when making paper

After water & paper experiment – have students develop their own experiments with “Experimental Inquiry Process of Dimensions”
- see sample sheets
- have students classify the 10 paper samples in small groups
- have students choose one paper sample to describe

Adapt projects to fit the season – kites in March
 -painted paper mache bowls gold for St. Patrick’s day
- snowmen
- wove placemats for holiday party

Make newspaper hats

Classify the paper samples

Tissue paper, glue, & water to make rainbow fish

Using paper mache bowls, put milk container planters inside with flowers grown by the children, filled in around carton with Spanish moss.
Painted recycled paper with watercolors and mounted on tagboard (great refrigerator magnet, pin for Mom, decoration)

Wrote a rap song about Paper

Wrote a sequence story on sentence strips about making paper – assessment – have students put them in the right order.