Island of the Blue Dolphins
| State | WV |    |
| Status | Ready for Users | |
| Stage | Public | |
| Subject | English/Language Arts Health Mathematics | |
| Author | Rodrick Auvil
Willa Mitchell Stephen Harlow | |
| Description | Students will be able to explore the mental, physical &
emotional components of stress management, while being able to demonstrate various stress management skills. Students will also use comprehension, problem solving, geographics, lifetime wellness and technology skills in completeing the Island of the Blue Dolpins lessons listed. | |
| The 21st Century Tools | Computer Lab
VCR/TV Printer/s Office 2000 or higher Fitness Gram software | |
| Grade Level | 7 8 9 | |
| National Standards | REDUCING HEALTH RISKS
Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks-- Standards: Demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations. Demonstrate strategies to manage stress. ENG.K-12.3 EVALUATION STRATEGIES; Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their own knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). NM-NUM.9-12.1: Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems. NM-NUM.9-12.2: Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another. NM-NUM.9-12.3: Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates | |
| Career Clusters | Engineering and Technical Health and Human Services Science and Natural Resources | |
| Keywords | hieroglyphics
Pictographs League Map key BMI compass rose cartography sea animals physical activities obesity in children | |
| Lesson Plan URLs (new Window) | Overview: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Lesson 1: Island of Catalina Lesson 2: Petroglyphs Lesson 3: Cartography Lesson 4: Whale Watching Lesson 5: Coping With Stress | |
| English IGO or CSO | 7.56, 7.169, 8.52, 8.155, 9.43, 9.95 | |
| Health IGO or CSO | 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6 | |
| Math IGO or CSO | 9.208, AM1.11, 9.19, 9.3, 9.5 | |