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School of the Future
6-pack
ISBN: 9780790321158
Copyright Date: 2007
Grade Level:
6
Reading Level:
X
Strategy/Skill:
Comparing and contrasting, Making connections, Making predictions, Text structure
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theme/Topic:
Animals, Birds, and Insects, Habitats, Humor, Plants, School and Community
Classification:
Fiction
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Book Summary
Life at a school of the future is fast paced! To go on a class trip, you’ll travel at ten times the speed of sound. This futuristic story traces Shakir’s and Maria’s class trip to the Amazon rainforest, but they find out that having technology at their fingertips doesn’t always make things easy.
Features of the Book
- Science fiction narrative
- Futuristic school setting
- Communications by “vid-message”
- Theme of consequences of actions
- Causes and effects
- Factual information
Purpose
School of the Future can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills and understandings:
- making, revising, and confirming predictions
- making connections to compare and contrast
- discussing how new learning technologies may be used in classrooms of the future
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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