3-5 Resources for Parents
Science
- My Friend Manny Website Scavenger Hunt
- Description: For this activity children should be provided with the attached worksheet. This worksheet does not need to be printed for this activity. The worksheet will instruct them to access the Rutgers Geology Museum website and research the scientific history that relates to the My Friend Manny text.
- In terms of skills learned and developed within this activity, this activity will help:
- Technology and media literacy
- Active recall/memory
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Summarization/relying on information
- In terms of skills learned and developed within this activity, this activity will help:
- Description: For this activity children should be provided with the attached worksheet. This worksheet does not need to be printed for this activity. The worksheet will instruct them to access the Rutgers Geology Museum website and research the scientific history that relates to the My Friend Manny text.
Reading
- Science Meets Poetry Challenge
- Description: Children should be provided with the attached worksheet that prompts them to write a poem using the vocabulary from the text. This activity will allow them to practice rhyming, metaphor, rhythm, and more.
- There is also an additional worksheet with poetic vocabulary and its accompanying simple definitions for children to review
- In terms of skills learned and developed within this activity, this activity will help:
- Creative thinking
- Language skills
- Communication skills
- Scientific vocabulary
- Poetic vocabulary
- Description: Children should be provided with the attached worksheet that prompts them to write a poem using the vocabulary from the text. This activity will allow them to practice rhyming, metaphor, rhythm, and more.