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Grade Level: Second Grade Unit: Time Assignment type: Order of events Lesson objectives (include 2 or 3): Time required to complete this lesson: 2 days
 * Student will understand the concept of sequence
 * Student will be able to make scene for the order of events
 * Student will understand time in the day

Title of lesson: An aliens day of fun in the snow

Resources/materials needed: media type="custom" key="7368925"

Paper, pencil, computer and internet access.

Description of lesson The children will use the comic strip of the alien in the snow to determined what happened in the day. So far the comic strip has the alien outside, than by the fire and then going to bed. The question the students will have to figure out is why the alien is so tired. What events took place to make him so tired at the end of the day? There will be lots of different outcomes to this question. After making a timeline of the events that take place the students will make their own comic strip to represent the events. They will be able to add picture and text to their own comic strip.

Assignment

The students are given the assignment of making their own comic strip to fill in the events that the alien did through out the day. Did he build a snowman, fort in the snow, did he build the fire, chop wood, etc. Once they have built their timeline they will go to toon doo to create their own comic strip explaining what happen in the day. The students need to come up with 3 different events that took place.

 Technology used: Internet, toon doo  The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:  Using the comic strips is a fun project for everyone. It is a new what of seeing things in a different way. It gives the students an opportunity to be creative even if they are not artist.