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What Will You Find on Crystal Island? || **2.1**: Identify and analyze forces that cause changes in landforms over time, including water and ice, wind and gravity. **Literacy** **2.02**: Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening and viewing by:
 * **Lesson 1:** ||< Introduction/Landforms
 * **Standards Addressed:** || **Science**
 * making predictions.
 * formulating questions.
 * supporting answers from textual information, previous experience and/or other sources.
 * drawing on personal, literary and cultural understandings.
 * seeking additional information.
 * making connections with previous experiences, information and ideas.

**3.06**: Research a topic by developing guiding questions and exploring a variety of resources to find answers to these questions (encyclopedia, almanac, internet, interview).

**Technology** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**5.TT.1.1**: Use a variety of technology tools to gather data and information (e.g., Web-based resources, e-books, online communication tools, etc.). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**5.TT.1.3**: Use technology tools to present data and information (e.g., multimedia, audio and visual recording, online collaboration tools, etc.). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**5.SI.1**: Apply criteria to determine appropriate information resources for specific topics and purposes. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">//[|Think, Puzzle, Explore]// What do you think you know? What puzzles me about this? How can I explore this topic? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Lesson Objective:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To use schema and visuals to infer: “What is Crystal Island?”
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Assessment:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Students will be assessed through a 1-page journal-type assessment, which will be recorded either using pencil and paper or a word processing program.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Students will choose a landform from the following video to discuss in their journal entry (Major Landforms: Facts about Landforms: []). Children must provide a link in each journal entry to a website that can be used to demonstrate their understanding of the chosen landform.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Students must explain why they chose that website, and how knowledge of that landform will affect their gameplay in Crystal Island.

media type="file" key="Major Landforms - Facts About Landforms.mov" width="317" height="317" || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before our actual journey begins, you will need to determine what landforms you think you might encounter and how you think these landforms will impact your travel around the island. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Google Earth <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enchanted Learning <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">National Geographic <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.fossweb.com]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Materials/****Tools:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">chart paper, post-it notes, computers ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Introduction:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are going to take an adventure on Crystal Island. During this journey you are going to complete various quests which will teach you about landforms and how weather affects landforms.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Procedures:** || # <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be shown Crystal Island graphics from the game via the [|virtual walk-through].
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will complete //Think, Puzzle, Explore// charts in order to activate their schema and ask questions to figure out what they may encounter and how it will impact their gameplay.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">After completing the //Think, Puzzle, Explore,// students will view a <span class="wiki_link_ext">video on landforms (see video above).
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will make connections or ask more questions from their //Think, Puzzle, Explore// in order form a link between landforms knowledge and Crystal Island.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will use technology (PC, laptop, I-Pads) to research landforms around the globe in order to complete individual blogs. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Resources:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Crystal Island

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Potential Kid Friendly Search Engines
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fact Monster
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kids Click
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cybersleuth
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Onekey
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ducksters

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Potential Kid Friendly Blogging Sites
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.kidblog.org]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.weebly.com]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.edmodo.com] ||