Lesson 3 Paul Bunyan
Grade Level: Grades 2, 3, and 4
Subject Areas: Language
Arts, Social Studies, Art, Music
Learner Outcomes:
- The students will review map skills with a United
States map.
- The students will read or listen to and discuss
the various stories of Paul Bunyan.
- The students will use a dictionary.
- The students will write some exaggerations.
Duration of Lesson: 1 or 2 - 75 minute
lesson
Materials:
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Multimedia computer with Internet capability
Can use overhead and transparencies.
Teacher Notes:
- Obtain an Acceptable Use Policy,
if needed.
- The teacher will need to adapt each part of this
lesson to the age and ability of the students.
- Provide the class with a variety of Tall Tale books
from the school library to be reading before the unit is taught.
- Student copy of a United States map from Lesson 1 will be used.
- Get materials as listed above.
- Make copies of the Exaggeration worksheet.
(MS Word)
(RTF)
Procedures:
- Review the description of tall tales.
- Discuss the meaning of exaggeration from the dictionary
work in Lesson 1 .
- Do the Exaggeration worksheet. (MS Word)
(RTF)
- Using the Map
of United States, ask if anyone knows where Wisconsin
is located.
- Show a Map of Wisconsin.
- Using the United States map from Lesson 1 ,
have the students color Wisconsin.
- Have students look for lumberjack in a dictionary.
- Discuss.
- Have students read a Paul Bunyan story from the
school library.
- Available Internet sites with stories: Lumberjack
(Click the click here button and choose Paul Bunyan), Paul
Bunyan, Newsbank
(Can only use this site if you have a subscription), and
Bunyan.
- Discuss the stories and compare the information.
- Listen to the songs about Paul Bunyan at this site: Music. (To
see the words of a song, click on "Songs and Lyrics," go to "Show lyrics,"
and choose The Man in Plaid. To hear the music may involve
some cost.)
- Do a Venn diagram or graph to see which Tall Tale
hero is liked the most so far.
- Do the Paul Bunyan art activity. (Picture A) (Picture B) (Picture C)
- When the art activity is completed , write a story,
"What's it like to be so tall? (Could be written in a Word Processing
Program.)
Modifications:
- Peer tutors could help with the worksheet, dictionary,
and .map work
- Get a volunteer or an older student to read a Paul
Bunyan tale to the reading challenged child.
Enrichment Activities:
Evaluation/Assessment:
All elements of the lesson will be graded using a grading
Checklist. (MS Word) (RTF)
West Virginia
Content Standards and Objectives:
RLA.2.1.5, RLA.2.1.6, RLA.2.1.7, RLA.2.1.8, RLA.2.1.15,
RLA.3.1.3, RLA.3.1.4,
RLA.3.1.7, RLA.3.1.14, RLA.4.1.3, RLA.4.1.4, RLA.2.2.2, RLA.2.2.4,
RLA.3.2.3,
RLA.3.2.10, RLA.3.2.12, RLA.2.3.2, RLA.3.3.1, RLA.3.3.2
SS.2.4.3, SS.2.5.3, SS.2.5.6, SS.3.5.6, SS.4.4.2, SS.4.5.12
VA.2.4.1, VA.2.6.1, VA.3.1.2, VA.4.3.3
MU.S.1, MU.S.2, MU.S.4
National Standards:
Geography
1 Understand the characteristics and uses of maps, globes,
and other geographic tools and technologies.
Language Arts
1 Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
2 Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions
5 Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
6 Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret
a variety of literary texts
8 Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
9 Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret
visual media
Art
1 Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes
related to the visual arts
5 Understands the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork
and the artwork of
others
Music
1 Sings, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
7 Understands the relationship between music and history and culture
References:
- Map
of United States
- Map of Wisconsin
- Lumberjack
- Paul
Bunyan
- Newsbank
- Bunyan
- Tall Tales
- Traveling
with Paul and Babe
- Folklore
- Music
Authors:
Criss Elementary
School
Wood County Schools
West Virginia
