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Lesson Plans for Zman Projects

Check out the following Lesson Plans for ways to use this website. Use the lessons individually or in sequence.

  E-mail List

Writing to a real person and getting replies that can be read and re-read are the advantages to using an e-mail list as the basis for writing assignments. Use with the following Materials sets with the E-mail Lessons below. 

Materials:  Greetings to Earthlets

• 1-2: Our First E-mail: Use this lesson as an introduction e-mail correspondence with Zman. Students read the Zman story and views one of the materials sets, answers the questions by each student dictating or typing one or two lines expressing his or her own thoughts or ideas.

Materials: Flowers and What? ... New York Skyline ... The United Nations 

• 1-2: Writing to Zman: Use this lesson as an alternative to replying to Zman. Zman may be traveling or unavailable, but you can keep up the weekly lesson by choosing one of the above Materials set.

   Charts and Spreadsheets

Strongly rooted in math and science objectives, as well as technology objectives, these lessons take students have students voting for a personal perference to construct a class chart or spreadsheet. Use any of these Materials sets with the lessons below.

Materials: Colors of Zman ... Sailboat Spreadsheet ... Classify ... Traveling Sun Spreadsheet

• K-1: Our Classroom Chart:  Use this lesson to introduce or provide practice in compiling data in a chart. Read a story problem from one of the above Materials sites, show the pictures. Solve the story problem by having students vote for their favorite picture on a Chart. Students vote by lining up stickers in a row with their favorite picture on the chart. Then the count the votes and study the data on the chart.

 

• 1-4: Our Classroom Spreadsheet In this lesson you need a classrooom computer that runs Excel. The Class Spreadsheet is downloaded to the class computer. Read a story problem from one of the above Materials sites, show the pictures. Solve the story problem by having students vote for their favorite picture. Votes are cast by raising hands, and the count is recorded on the spreadsheet. Then study the data on the spreadsheet.

Page created December 23, 2001. Anne Pemberton. Updated Sat, October 15, 2005 . AP

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