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Grade 6-8 9-12 Brief Description Students view photographs of migrant families during the Great Depression, try to interpret the photos to answer questions about the subject's life, and then write a cinquain poem based on their interpretations. Objectives Students willGain understanding of the personal struggles faced during the Great Depression Learn to interpret information from a visual medium (photograph) and express that knowledge in written form (poem).

Brief Description Students analyze photographs of high plains sod homes and read accompanying narratives. They then choose one photograph and, using the copy and paste features and simple drawing tools available in Microsoft Word, students identify characteristics, points, differences, and questions they find in that photograph. -Stephanie Jones

In February I teach Walter Dean Meyer's book Ali: The Greatest

Students will Learn and understand the term habitat. Discover that forests, deserts, wetlands, and grasslands are unique and separate habitats. Identify animals that live in four different environments. Animals Around Us video Crayons White construction paper, 1 sheet per student Magazines, nature calendars and other print resources with photographs of desert, forest, wetlands, and prairie environments 1.

Teach the different habitats animals live in and how they differ.