Marco Polo Lesson Plans

1. On the Road with Marco Polo: From Hormuz to Kashgar
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2. Your Family and the Constitution
...ng either a power point presentation, poster board presentation or inspiration presentation the students share their ideas. Instructional Description Day Day 1 Brainstorming activity on ?family decision making.? Day 2 Vocabulary assignment on the Constitution. Day 3 Complete the 2 Web activities on Marco Polo: Marco Polo Intro and Marco Polo 2 Day 4 Use ?government worksheet? to look at how decisions are made by the Constitution. Day 5 Students work on presentations. Day 6 Students work on presentations. Day 7 Students work on projects. Day 8 Students work on projects. Day 9 Day 10 (to add a new row, cli...

3. Reference Page
...Galster Author: Barbara Rinkoff First Book of Maps and Globes Illustrated by Laszio Roth Author: Sam and Beryl Epstein How Maps and Globes Help Us Illustrated by William Tanis Author: David Hackler Day 3-Navigation by sound http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2083.shtml The Adventures of Marco Polo by Demi Day 4-Navigation by Touch My Fingers are for Touching by J. Belk-Moncure Touch by M. Suhr Day 5-Navigation by Taste & Smell www.Nettrekker.com You can't smell a flower with your ear! by Joan Cole Me and my senses by Joanna Sweeney Main Organizers Materials Assessment Goals Questions Vocabula...

4. Materials
...ls, landmarks, directions of the classroom Stickers/Stamp Compasses Day 3-Navigation by sound glass dish water overhead projector and screen syringe blindfolds (4-5) food coloring Sonic Ranger graphing calculator miscellaneous materials of different heights (boxes, etc) sheet book The Adventures of Marco Polo by Demi Day 4-Navigation by Touch Examples of different textures for touch test Art supplies (cotton balls, markers, sand, glue, leaves, shells, etc.) Day 5-Navigation by Taste & Smell · One bag of "Jelly Belly" jelly beans · Blind folds · CD player · CD of "I Wanna Be A Dog" · Two Poster Boards · M...

5. Group #2
..., we pointed out to the students how it worked.? They thought that was neat also and even observed that they could hear it sending out sound waves.? The students then brainstormed and came up with animals that use sonar, and different ways that humans can use sound to navigate.? Lastly, we played a Marco Polo game that went well, however, we had a lot of discipline problems.? There were a few boys who we had to be separated to keep them from talking.? Once we got out of the room to play the next version of the game we found that students were not playing fair, so we had to stop them and explain why they...

6. Teacher Background Information
...ound Key Terms: o sonar-a device that uses sound waves to detect and locate objects. o echolocation-term to describe how animals navigate by sound. o oceanographer-a person who studies the ocean. How sonar and echolocation work. What types of animals use sonar. How humans use sound to navigate. Who Marco Polo was. How to use and read the sonic ranger. Safety precautions Understanding of Navigation overall and specifically how sound navigation works Day 4-Navigation by Touch The teacher must be familiar with snails habitat and how a snail uses touch to navigate. The teacher needs also to have several des...

7. Around the World in 30 Days
...research report with and introduction, body, and conclusion. Construct a powerpoint presentation to go along with their report. Locate the geographical location of their culture on a world map. Assessment Plan: 1. Informal observation and class sharing of Time Cat journals. 2. Rubrics assessment of Marco Polo virtual trip. 3. Peer evaluation of research report. 4. Senior student evaluation of powerpoint presentation. 5. Rubrics assessment of powerpoint presentation. 6. Rubrics assessment of research report. 7. Rubrics assessment of oral report. Learning Activities: 1. Informal observation and class shari...

8. Clues to Climate Change
...t Standard(s): Science ? Structure of the Earth's Systems ? Global patterns of atmospheric movements that influence local weather. TC (6)?? 16 Apply content specific tools, software, and simulations to support learning and research.? Examples: Probes, graphing calculators, web tools including AVL & Marco Polo. Primary Learning Students will hone their research and presentation skills using Objective(s): online resources content specific tools, and graphing data.? Approximate Duration Three to four class periods. of the Lesson: Materials and The teacher's guide to the mini-unit on climate change is Equipm...

9. Can You Make the Connection?
...nology Computer lab Resources Needed: or Computer with Internet access and a multimedia projector or an AverKey or scan converter. Background/ Preparation: Procedures/ Activities: 1. Go to a site such as Yahooligans ®. This is an example of an Internet portal. Other sites such as AVL, Google, and Marco Polo to name a few can be used as well when discussing internal portals. 2. From here you can find a site that can help you find the topic of interest. The following is an example of using an Internet portal to find information. Example lesson using internal portal. 1. Complete lesson from HASP Unit on...

10. Graphs Abound
...ite food, favorite soft drink) Activities: Introduction: 1. Discuss data that was collected such as eye color, favorite food, favorite pet, etc. 2. Discuss graph with students either as introduction or review. 3. Discuss bar graph and axis located on graphs such as horizontal and vertical. 4. Go to Marco Polo site http://illuminations.nctm.org/tools/ index.aspx . 5. Go to Bar Grapher. 6. Input data. Make sure to put the number and then a comma and then the description. (ex: 3, pizza) 7. Have students print bar graph. Adaptation to lesson: This lesson could be performed by a class and used as a demonstrat...