The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind- Plot Diagram

We recently completed our novel study The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind using Lightning Literature. For our final book project, my son made a windmill diagraming the plot of the book. 

Material:

1. Straws

2. note cards

3. a cup

4. Skewer sticks or long popsicle sticks

5. Brass fastener

We made a rough copy of our plot diagram on the whiteboard. Once we took out unnecessary information my son copied it onto the note cards. 

We assembled the windmill and added the flag of Malawi to the cup. 

You can also use this project to summarize the picture book version for younger students. 

Somebody

Wanted to

So 

But 

Then

You can also do a character trait study on William, the main character. Write one trait per card and add the evidence from the text. 

Electricity Unit Study

We recently did an electricity unit study with our novel study "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind."  During this unit study, we covered circuits, static electricity, and wind turbines. 

Books We Read From:

1. The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

2. Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

3. Electric Wizard

4. Switch on Switch off

We used this Circuit kit for building and learning all about how they work. 

We also learned about simple circuits 

We learned about different conductors. Here we used a lead pencil to create a circuit. 

We made a lemon clock. 

Along with the experiment kits and books we read, my son put together a lapbook. 

You can grab this lapbook from Undercover Classroom TPT store. 

This lapbook kit contains the following interactive parts:

1. Lapbook cover

2. Electricity vocabulary pocket and cards (battery, circuit, closed circuit, conductor, filament, insulator, open circuit, parallel circuit, series circuit, short circuit, switch, volt)

3. Pioneers of electricity flap book (Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Morse, Michael Faraday, Joseph Henry, Thomas Edison)

4. Simple circuit diagram (energy source, electrical path, output device)

5. Types of circuits layered book (series and parallel)

6. Circuit tool kit pocket (batteries and lightbulbs) *

7. Parts of a lightbulb diagram

8. Conductors and insulators interlock

9. Circuit symbols chart

10. Troubleshooting fan book