Optional Activities
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Pacing Guide
Materials List by Week
Narration and Timeline Creation
About the ELA Activities
Optional Spines
Optional Books List by Week
Lesson 1
Balloon Hands-on Demonstration
Optional Books and Videos Big Bang
Optional Activities
Literature Extension: Exploring Creation Myths
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
My Cosmic Address
Rabbit Holes: Our Galaxy
Play Based Activities: Galaxy
Constellation Stories from Around the World
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Hands On Demonstration: Playdough Earth Layers
Other Activities: Lesson 5
Rabbit Holes: Formation of Earth
Earth Creation Myths
Lesson 6
Hands On: Candy Rock Cycle
Rabbit Holes: Story of Rocks
Other Activities Lesson 6
Volcano/Mountain Myths
Lesson 7
Hands-On: Graham Cracker Tectonics
Rabbit Holes: Plate Tectonics
Other Activities Lesson 7
Turtle Myths and Shifting Earth
Lesson 8
Hands On: Water Cycle in a Bag
Rabbit Holes: Liquid Water
Optional Activities LEsson 8
Water Myths and Flood Stories
Discussion Questions: We Are Water Protectors
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 13
Lesson 14
Lesson 15
Lesson 16
Lesson 17
Hands On: Play Dough Insects
Rabbit Holes: Carboniferous
Other Activities: Life on Land
Literature Extension: Firefly Myths
Lesson 18
Lesson 19
Hands-On: Making Carbon Dioxide
Rabbit Holes: The Great Dying
Other Activities: The Great Dying
Literature Extension: Hades and the Underworld
Lesson 20
Hands On: Moving Like Reptiles vs. Dinosaurs
Rabbit Holes: Triassic
Other Activities: Triassic
Literature Extension: What Is a Dragon?
Lesson 21
Hands On: Measuring Jurassic Giants
Rabbit Holes: Jurassic
Other Activities: Jurassic
Literature Extension: East Asian Dragons (China, Korea, Japan)
Lesson 22
Hands-On: Fruit Dissection
Rabbit Holes: Cretaceous
Other Activities: Cretaceous
Literature Extension: European Dragons
Lesson 23
Hands On: Impact Crater Simulation
Rabbit Holes: End of Dinosaurs
Other Activities: End of the Dinosaur
Literature Extension: Dragon-Like Creatures in Other Regions
Lesson 24
Lesson 25
Lesson 26
Hands-On Activity: Blubber & Fur Insulation Experiment
Rabbit Holes: Mega Mammals
Other Activities: Ice Age
Literature Extension: Stories of the Arctic I
Lesson 27
Lesson 28
Lesson 29
Lesson 30
Lesson 31
Hands-On: Migration Map
Rabbit Holes: Human Migration
Other Activities: Migration
Literature Extension: Human Migration & Wayfinding
Lesson 32
