| WOOD
AND PAPER COURSE MATRIX |
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INTERDISCIPLINARY
EXTENSIONS |
SUGGESTED
BOOKS TO READ |
TECHNOLOGY/HOME
CONNECTION |
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1. |
GETTING
TO KNOW WOOD |
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Begin a wood chart.
• Weigh paper clips.
• List wooden items from home.
• Take a field trip to a lumberyard.
• Peer inside a branch.
• Start a wood study center.
• Play Memory.
• Do another sinking-wood investigation. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Wood and Paper, “The Story
of a Chair” |
Students
label wooden objects at home, and draw or list the objects they
find. They play the game of “I’m thinking of something
that is made of wood and it is . . .” with their friends
or family. Back in the classroom, the lists of wood uses are
consolidated into a class chart. |
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2. |
CHANGING
WOOD |
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Use science journals.
• Make pictures from sawdust, shavings, and twigs.
• Draw with charcoal.
• Add to the wood study center. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Wood and Paper, “Are You
a Scientist?” |
Students
investigate whether a craft stick will become waterlogged and
sink. After a few days, they compare it to a dry craft stick. |
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3. |
GETTING
TO KNOW PAPER |
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Use science journals.
• Make a chart of paper properties.
• Construct a paper Humpty-Dumpty.
• Paint on different kinds of paper.
• Examine paper illustration techniques.
• Make collage masks.
• Practice simple origami.
• Explore other kinds of paper.
• Bring in rice paper. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Wood and Paper, “The Story
of a Box” |
Students
continue their investigations at home with simple instructions
that teach them how to make drinking cups for their family. |
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4. |
CHANGING
PAPER |
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Use science journals.
• Decorate the papier-mâché bowls.
• Try variation in papermaking.
• Color the recycled paper.
• Make something with the recycled paper.
• Make chipboard. |
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FOSS Science Stories: Wood and Paper, “Land,
Air, and Water”
• The Piñata Maker by George Anacona |
Students recycle paper found at home by making paper collages
or paper-collage masks. They explore cutting and tearing paper,
and the effects of water drops on different papers.
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5. |
CONSTRUCTIONS |
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Seriate or pair boxes.
• Make new boxes.
• Maintain a workbench.
• Take paper tubes apart.
• Continue the paper-construction center.
• Finish the wood/paper sculptures.
• Set up a classroom post office. |
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Mighty Tree by Dick Gackenbach
• FOSS Science Stories: Wood and Paper, “I
Am Wood” |
Students make paper envelopes from a pattern. They cut, fold,
and paste the envelope, and then they write letters or draw
pictures to send in it.
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