3, 2, 1…Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Trip to the Moon
This lesson is designed to help first- and second-grade students learn new vocabulary by taking them on virtual adventures that replicate field trips. Students begin by accessing prior knowledge through an initial writing activity. Ensuing discussions, read-alouds, and the creation of a picture dictionary “take students to the moon,” while further building their vocabulary. Students use an online Alphabet Organizer to complete a final writing activity, which they compare to the writing they did during the first session. Although this lesson focuses on the moon, its activities can be used with any content area topic. Taken from Read, Write, and Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=946 - Check it out for the FULL lesson plan!! Judy Fiene