Ideas for How to Use EekoCreatures & the EekoHouse in Literacy ActivitiesThe EekoWorld lesson plans utilize the interactives and the Web content in varied activities. This section contains additional ideas for how you can use the EekoWorld interactives to enhance your classroom literacy activities. Encourage your students to explore EekoWorld by building their EekoCreatures and visiting the EekoHouse. You can build a variety of reading, writing, listening and speaking activities around these interactives. Initially, you may chose to develop a class EekoCreature, or you may visit the EekoHouse as a whole class activity. You may also choose to have your students pursue independent investigations of these options. The following is a list of ways that you can utilize students' Eeko experiences in reading and writing activities.
KINDERGARTEN THROUGH SECOND GRADE
- Create a class EekoCreature picture book where each student illustrates and writes a sentence or a paragraph about their experiences on the computer.
- Write headlines based on the students' EekoCreature's adventures. This can be done as a whole class activity.
- Invent an EekoCreature dance.
- Ask students to retell their EekoHouse experiences with classmates. Create a classroom audiotape of students' stories.
- Create detergent bottle puppets and act out recycling behaviors that the students learned by visiting EekoHouse.
THIRD & FOURTH GRADE
- Ask the students to write a script for a mock dialogue between EekoCreatures comparing their adventures. Stage the skit.
- Create a news show featuring students' experiences in EekoHouse.
- Create a class mural featuring the geographic features the students' EekoCreatures encountered.
- Create a sequenced time line of students' EekoCreatures' adventures over a one-week period.
- Invite students to post a comment on the EekoExchange.
- Create a class comic strip based on the students' EekoWorld experiences.
