Acquisition Lesson Plan

Name Regina Ramsey Subject To Infinity & Date Wednesday Beyond 9:30 Supervisor checks in students and takes attendance. Puts names in “Random Drawing” bucket for prizes later in week.

9:30 – 9:45 Breakfast Snack ______Essential Question: How can seeing a fictional character with some weaknesses help us learn about ourselves?

9:45 – 10:00 Activating Strategy/Arrival Activity: (Include “Space Odyssey” - listening to short music selection to help children settle down for learning.) After completing snack, students should begin the My Favorite Superheroes Worksheet. If they finish before carpet time, they can compare their list with a partner.

10:00 – 11:00 Teaching Strategies: Book: Superman: Deep Space Hijack by Scott Sonneborn  Have the students raise their hands to give examples of adjectives that describe superheroes. List them on the board.  Read Superman: Deep Space Hijack  Ask Review Questions

Review Questions:

1. What are 2 of the names used in the book to refer to Super Man? Clark Kent, Man of Steel 2. How many miles from Earth was the Long-Range Space Explorer when they lost their engines? 3 Trillion miles away 3. Why was Jimmy Olsen at STAR Lab Space Center? Because he was a reporter for Daily Planet newspaper and wanted to get information for a story about the emergency landing 4. What planet was the Explorer going to try to land on? Pluto 5. What did both Clark Kent and Superman say it means when Jimmy Olsen says he has a great idea? TROUBLE

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6. What did the sign say on the door that Jimmy snuck into? Astronauts Only Beyond This Point! 7. How much time did the General say that the astronauts on Pluto had left before running out of air? 2 hours 8. Who came to the rescue when everyone thought it was impossible to rescue them in time? Superman 9. Name some of the characteristics of Leadellium that were mentioned in the book? Heavy, nearly indestructible, deflect lasers, valuable 10. Who was the Stow Away? Jimmy Olsen 11. Which one of Superman’s powers was affected by Leadellium? X-ray vision 12. Who was in the alien warship that was firing at them? Kanjar Ro and El- Tak (robotic first mate) 13. What was Kanjar Ro’s job? Space pirate 14. Where did Superman get strength from on Earth? Earth’s Sun 15. Who were the scavengers? Kanjar Ro’s bug like robots with sharp claws and metal teeth 16. Why were Superman’s powers now stronger? He was outside the Earth’s atmosphere and getting full power of the sun 17. What are Saturn’s rings made of? Millions of rocks and ice chunks 18. What was the shortcut that Superman took to make it to Pluto on time? Went through Neptune (gas giant) 19. What did Superman feel while going through Neptune that he wasn’t familiar with? PAIN 20. How did Jimmy come to the rescue? Superman was exhausted and being attacked by the scavengers again. Jimmy accidently turned on the ships control panel and ran into the scavengers allowing Superman to get free

 3 Space Stations [Centers] (Divide the group and rotate through centers 15 minutes each) 1. Kryptonite Klean-Up Relay 2. If I Were a Super Hero… 3. Boom! POW! ZAP!

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Space Station 1. Kryptonite Klean-Up Relay (Moon Walk Activity)

Kryptonite is poison to superhero powers. In this superhero game the little superheroes break into two teams and race to remove all the pieces of kryptonite without touching them with their hands. To make kryptonite, ball up aluminum foil and paint them green.

Materials: 30 foil balls sprayed painted green, 4- 2’ dowel rods, 2 baskets or buckets

To Play: Divide students into two teams forming two lines. Provide each team with two dowel sticks and enough kryptonite balls for every player, maybe two for every player. On the other end of the party space place two baskets (buckets, boxes, laundry baskets will all work) On “GO” one member from each team uses their krypto sticks (dowel stick) to grip the kryptonite balls and run them over to their teams’ bucket. They run back and pass the krypto sticks to the next player. The race continues until one team gets all their kryptonite into the basket.

Space Station 2. If I Were a Super Hero… Materials: lined paper with space for drawing a picture or lined paper and drawing paper, pencil, crayons. Give each student drawing and writing paper. Put the following writing prompt: If I were a Super Hero… on the board along with words associated with Super Heroes. Encourage students to write what kind of Super Hero they would be, what their costume would look like, what special powers they would have, what would they do when they weren’t saving people, would they like being a super hero…If they finish writing, they may draw a picture of themselves as a Super Hero.

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Space Station 3. BOOM! POW! ZAP!

What better way to explore interjections and onomatopoeia than with super heroes and comics?! Using fun sound effects and even basic interjections, students can use comic-style speech bubbles to explore these topics. Define: Onomatopoeia (The use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. • Make a list of words used in Super Hero books or comics that are examples of Onomatopoeia. Allow them to make the sounds as the read them.  Tape/paste photos of scenes, people, and situations onto large chart paper. • Using print-off speech bubbles or letting students make their own with POST - Its, have them create coordinating onomatopoeia to label each picture. • Students add each of their completed onomatopoeia bubbles around the image in the center of each chart paper. Engage students in a class discussion about similar and different sound effects they used to label each image and why.

Formative Assessments: (ongoing) Classroom helpers sit near children during reading aloud or partner reading to help them attend to story.

11:00 – Summarizing: (Example: What are 3 things you learned about perseverance and obstacles today?)

11:15 Bathroom break and hand washing Wash hands and enjoy lunch together. Teachers and adult leaders model appropriate table manners and encourage children to taste foods. Children and adults throw their own trash away.

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11:50 - After lunch, prior to dismissal: Culminating Activity: Invite children to choose a used book to take home and encourage them to do some reading tonight before they go to sleep.

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