The adventure you are about to take your students on through this unit will be just as exciting as “24,” but would directly involve them. As all the mishaps occur, during the various time periods your students can research the problems and their remedies, create other problems and their remedies, plus prepare models/demonstrations to explain the research, remedies, and results they have discovered.
Emphasis must be put on them investigating the science of each discovery. How things work or fail to work, effectively, if at all, should be a focal point of this inquiry.
The steps we will go through in this unit are developmentally appropriate for fifth (5th)-eighth (8th) grade students. They are designed to prepare them to act independently and responsibly and to be successful life-time learners.
Listening Strategy (for students who have to be read to)
Listening /Visualizing. Tell students that they can better understand a story as they listen by creating a mental picture of what is happening. Explain that focusing on what the main characters, one being the student, see, hear, and do will help them visualize the story.