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Overview:
Students choose to research an animal's sleeping habits and report on them from that animal's point of view as part of a humorous newspaper.
Curriculum Focus:
Materials:
Activity:
Print out copies of the Snooze News sheet. Make enough photocopies for each student to use.
Review the Special Feature story. Discuss which animals truly sleep and which animals simply rest. Ask students to explain why animals sleep at different times and in different places. Stress that there is much more variety in the animal world than in the human world when it comes to sleep habits. In fact, animals can follow some pretty strange sleep routines.
Hand out copies of the Snooze News sheet. Direct students to choose one headline and flesh it out as a humorous story told from the animal's point of view. The story should follow the journalism model, answering "who, where, when, what, how and why." It also should address the point made in the headline and include other facts about the animal's lifestyle.
Students will need to do research using books, CD-ROM's, Internet access and other materials. If students wish, they can write and research an original headline instead. Share finished stories as a class.
Extension idea:
Assemble students' stories and lay them out in a newspaper format to create a complete edition of "Snooze News."