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- First, you will need to write down your top three choices of ecosystems that you would like to research and write a book about. Your publisher will take your choices and create a group of writers that have the same interests.
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- When your publisher gives you the ecosystem that you will be working on, you will begin researching that ecosystem and filling out the ecosystem research form.
ecosystem_research_form.docx | |
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File Type: | docx |
List of ecosystem research sites:
Artic Sites
Enchanted Learning Artic Animals
Desert Sites
Enchanted Learning Desert Animals
Universe-Desert Animals
Rainforest Sites
Enchanted Learning Rainforest Animals
Caltech-Rainforest
Grassland Sites
Enchanted Learning Grassland Animals
List of Books for Research
Step 3:
You will meet as a group to discuss your research and make a plan as to where your group will go from here. Your group will need to decide which animals, plants, or insects you will use for your book and which members will be researching them.
Step 4:
Each member of the group will fill out the I will research form.
Artic Sites
Enchanted Learning Artic Animals
Desert Sites
Enchanted Learning Desert Animals
Universe-Desert Animals
Rainforest Sites
Enchanted Learning Rainforest Animals
Caltech-Rainforest
Grassland Sites
Enchanted Learning Grassland Animals
List of Books for Research
Step 3:
You will meet as a group to discuss your research and make a plan as to where your group will go from here. Your group will need to decide which animals, plants, or insects you will use for your book and which members will be researching them.
Step 4:
Each member of the group will fill out the I will research form.
i_will_research_form.docx | |
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File Type: | docx |
Step 5:
The next several days you will go back and work on researching the animals/plants/insects that you and your group decided you would research. You will fill out the Animal/plant/insect form so that you can bring back your research to your group.
The next several days you will go back and work on researching the animals/plants/insects that you and your group decided you would research. You will fill out the Animal/plant/insect form so that you can bring back your research to your group.
animal-insect-plant_research_form.docx | |
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File Type: | docx |
Animal/Plant/Insect Research Sites:
National Geographic
Arkive
Kids Planet
BBC Nature
Kids Biology
Octopus GMA
Desert USA
Enchanted Learning - Whales
Enchanted Learning - Farms
Sweet Search 4 Me
National Geographic
Arkive
Kids Planet
BBC Nature
Kids Biology
Octopus GMA
Desert USA
Enchanted Learning - Whales
Enchanted Learning - Farms
Sweet Search 4 Me
Step 6:
- Your group will meet back together to discuss the research and decide which animals/insects/plants to use in the pages of your book.
- Your group will also need to decide on a title for your book, which will become the first line on every page in your book.
- As a group you will also need to fill out the Book Pages Organization Form to let the publisher know how your group plans to proceed. Remember that you will use the numbers one through ten in your book and your animals/plants/insects must really have that many offspring. Example: A horse usually only has one foal, so you can not put it in your book as having ten.
- The publisher will then give each group member a copy so that they know which pages they agreed to write.
- Before the meeting closes the group needs to create a list of rhyming words to go with each of the number words one through ten.
over_in_the_meadow_group_1.docx | |
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Did you have rhymes on each pages?
Do you have grammar/spelling errors?
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- You will spend the next couple of days creating your pages for the book on your own.
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- You will bring these pages to the group for a work session that will allow you all to edit and revise the book together. As a group you will look for the following.
Did you have rhymes on each pages?
Do you have grammar/spelling errors?
- As a group, you will then take your book to the editor at the publishing company for final approval.
Step 9:
- After approval from the editor you will each take your pages back to make any needed changes and to work on fonts and pictures.
Step 10:
- When completed print your pages out and get together with your group to read through the pages together.
- Then discuss with your group the fun facts paragraphs of your book.
- Each member of the group will then write the fun facts paragraphs that was planned out in the last group meeting. Add a real picture of your animal/plant/insect to your fun fact paragraphs.
Step 12:
- You will then meet as a group to edit and revise your fun facts paragraphs before you take them to the editor at your publishing company for final review.
Step 13:
- next couple of days will be spent making any needed changes before you print your final copies.
Step 14:
- You will also work together to create a cover for your book.
- Each group will meet to put their final copies of their books together before they turn it into the publishing company for final approval.