Literature: "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
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| Literature: "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt |
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Description:
| These sites have activity ideas, online quizzes, discussion questions, and lesson plans for the book "Tuck Everlasting." Also learn about author Natalie Babbitt and the Disney movie based on this book. There are links to eThemes Resources on the life cycle, the water cycle, and story elements. |
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Grade Level:
| 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Tuck Everlasting
This is the official site for the Disney movie based upon the book. After entering the site, dowload the film/book study guide for a 7-page pdf with questions about symbols and a script students can act out. Also explore the picture gallery and watch the movie trailer.
Tuck Everlasting: Social Dilemmas
This page has questions about some of the dilemmas the characters face in the book.
Tuck Everlasting: Cooperative Activities
This site has five ideas for cooperative activities that relate to the book's plot.
Debate Activity
This is a lesson for sixth-graders that has them debate the pros and cons about issues relating to the book. Includes a debate outline and a rubric.
Web-based Thematic Unit
There are three activity ideas about the water fountain, keeping secrets, and the water cycle. Includes rubrics of assessment. NOTE: Most of the suggested links are broken.
Quia
Use these online flashcards to learn vocabulary words from the book.
Study Guide
This 22-page pdf has information about the author and worksheets about the book.
eThemes Resource: Animals: Life Cycles
This eThemes Resource focuses on the stages animals go through as they mature. Learn how insects, fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, and humans develop. See videos of animals when they are developing embryos. Watch a chicken hatch from its egg. Also includes more advanced information on genes and physical growth.
eThemes Resource: Water Cycle: Explanations and Illustrations
These sites explain the water cycle and include the topics of evaporation, precipitation, and condensation. Watch animated movies and view several diagrams explaining the cycle. There is a word search and a quiz. Includes links to eThemes Resources on water cycle experiments and Missouri's springs.
eThemes Resource: Story Elements
This resource includes information and hands-on activities about story elements such as setting, characterization, and plot. Also includes activitites about sequencing and cause and effect. Has a link to eThemes Resource on book activities.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.5, 1.8, 1.10, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.6, 4.1, 4.3, 4.6, 1, 2, 4, 6, 3, 4, 5, 2
OK Standards:
A.4.1.a, A.4.1.b, A.4.2.a, A.4.2.b, A.4.2.d, A.4.4, B.2.6, A.4.1.a, A.4.1.b, A.4.1.c, A.4.2.a, A.4.2.b, A.4.2.c, B.2.7.a, C.2.7, A.3.2.c
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