Mornings
1.
Book The Desert is Theirs (Baylor)
Tantalizing Topography (Arizona Wild and Wacky [AWW]
)
Discussion: What is a Desert (Saguaro NP Curric)
Activity: Neighbors in the Desert (SNP)
2.
Book A Desert Scrapbook (Wright-Fierson)
Discussion: Ways animals and plants adapt to
deserts
Activity: Desert Diorama (from One Small Square Desert)
3.
Book, chapters 1-4 Grand Canyon Journey
(Anderson)
Discussion: evaporation and crystallization
(BFSU A-9 part 3)
Activity: Erosion and Sedimentation (BFSU D-8
part 1)
4.
Book, chapters 5-8 Grand Canyon Journey
Discussion and activity: Limestone and Fossils
(BFSU B-8 part 2)
Writing practice: Rock story
Afternoons
Tuesday Poetry theme—deserts, heat and dryness
Read alouds:
Activities:
TBD. Likely usual routine.
Week 2: Human History
Mornings
5.
Chapter 1 National Geographic (NG) Ancient Pueblo
Activity: Trees of Time (Tuzigoot NM Curric)
6.
Chapter 2 NG Pueblo
Book When Clay Sings (Baylor)
Activity: Say it With Pictures (Make N Learn Southwest Indians)
7.
Chapter 3 NG Pueblo
Activity: Dig that Pad! (Tuzigoot NM Curric)
8.
Chapters 4-5 NG Pueblo
Activity: Who Were the Prehistoric SW People?
(Tuzigoot NP Curric)
Afternoons
Tuesday
poetry free
Read-aloud Walker of Time
Activities:
“What’s Hidden in the
Midden?” (Investigating Artifacts Session #5)
“Putting Together Clues” (Investigating Artifacts Session #6)
Week 3: “Modern”
History
Mornings
1.
Book Down the Colorado: John WesleyPowell (Kogan Ray)
Activity: “Modern Cultures of the Verde
Valley” (Tuzigoot NM curric)
2.
Book AWW pgs 48, 64, 68, 88, 104
Activity: “Sonoran Desert Time Line” (SNP
curric)
3.
Book TBD. Flex day?
Activity: “Water in the Desert” (SNP curric)
4.
Book Survival! Desert
Activity/Writing Practice: Planning Survival
Pack vs. Day Pack
Afternoons
Read-aloud
and discuss:
Continue Walker of Time. Possibly
re-read Brighty of the Grand Canyon if time allows.
Activities:
TBD. Options:
Make and decorate pots and/or baskets
Dioramas from Make & Learn Southwest Indians
Supplemental books:
Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend of the Sunset Crater Eruption by Malotki
Exploring the Grand Canyon by Foster
Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth by Grattan
The Sonoran Desert by Day and Night (Dover Coloring Book)
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by Phillips and Comus
Grand Canyon Association Introduction to Grand Canyon Geology, Ecology, and Prehistory
