Wonderscape Academy6th grade

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Day 2: Hemispheres and Graphs

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Play with your child: Ratio Rally

Today’s goals

  • Word study: Use the root graph (write or draw) L.6.4b
  • Reading: Name the story elements: setting, character and conflict RL.6.3
  • Math: Tell part-to-part from part-to-whole ratios 6.RP.1
  • Social studies: Divide the globe into hemispheres D2.Geo.3.6-8

Materials

  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Wonderscape Library)
  • Globe [or world map]
  • Orange and a marker
  • Two-color counters [or dry beans]
  • Sticky notes

Swaps in [brackets] are fine. Use what you have at home or in the classroom.

The day, step by step

  1. 10–15 min Morning meeting SL.6.1

    1. Post the question of the day: "If you could study any -ology, which would you choose?" Students jot an answer in their notebook before the meeting.
    2. Share answers and tally which -ology choices are most popular.
    3. Preview: today we cut the world in half, twice.

  2. 15–20 min Word study L.6.4b

    1. Write graph: write or draw. Model autograph (self + write), paragraph and graphic.
    2. Students sort 8 words into graph words and non-graph words: photograph, giraffe, telegraph, graphic, grape, paragraph, autograph, graph.
    3. Discuss telegraph: tele means far, so a telegraph writes far away.
    4. Partners write one sentence using two graph words.

  3. 25–30 min Reading workshop RL.6.3

    Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Wonderscape Library)

    1. Review the setting from yesterday.
    2. Read the rest of chapter 1 and the start of chapter 2.
    3. Fill a story elements chart: setting, main character (Jim Hawkins), other characters, conflict so far.
    4. Ask: What problem is starting? Why is the captain afraid of strangers?

  4. 35–45 min Math 6.RP.1

    1. Warm-up: 6 girls and 9 boys are on a team. Write girls to boys (6:9).
    2. Teach part-to-part (girls to boys) and part-to-whole (girls to all players, 6:15).
    3. Use counters: 3 red and 5 yellow. Name red:yellow (3:5), yellow:red (5:3), red:total (3:8).
    4. Practice: a playlist has 7 country songs and 11 pop songs. Write country to pop (7:11), pop to all (11:18).
    5. Exit ticket: write one part-to-part and one part-to-whole ratio from a picture.

    Math center: counter grab bags; write 3 ratios for each grab.

  5. 25–30 min Social studies D2.Geo.3.6-8

    1. Hold up an orange and draw the Equator around the middle. Cut it in half: Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
    2. Draw a line from top to bottom for the Prime Meridian: Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
    3. On a globe, find which two hemispheres the United States is in (Northern and Western).
    4. Partners name one country in each of the four hemispheres.
    5. Exit ticket: list the two hemispheres where Australia is (Southern and Eastern).

  6. 25–30 min Writing W.6.10

    1. Set up the writer's notebook: a page for ideas, a page for words I love, and a page for goals.
    2. Quick write: Describe a place you know well using 3 senses.
    3. Underline your best sentence.
    4. Share it with a partner.

  7. 20–30 min Centers and independent practice

    1. Root tree: add a graph branch.
    2. Counter ratios: write 3 ratios for each grab bag.
    3. Hemisphere sort: sort 12 country cards into hemispheres.
    4. Reading nook: read and update the log.

    Device time (15 min): play Ratio Rally in the Wonderscape game room.

    Today’s game: Ratio Rally

  8. 5–10 min Closing circle SL.6.1

    1. Which hemisphere do we live in?
    2. What is the difference between part-to-part and part-to-whole?
    3. What is Jim's problem so far?
Support: Let students hold and point to a real globe while naming hemispheres.
Stretch: Find a country that is in three hemispheres at once, such as Ecuador or Kenya on the Equator, and explain.
Look for: Students correctly name part-to-part and part-to-whole ratios and locate hemispheres.

Short day? Keep the ratio lesson and the orange hemisphere demo.