Challenge One:
After reading chapter one, students will visit the Internet sites
listed below that will give them background information on Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, which is the setting for the story. After reading this
information, they will visit a web site of the alternative biome
assigned to their group. The biomes we will study are tundra, taiga,
deciduous forest, grassland, tropical rain forest and desert. After
visiting all the sites, students will complete a Venn diagram using
Inspiration that compares and contrast the geography around Saskatoon
to that of a city in their new biome.
Saskatoon
Map of
Canada http://www.usask.ca/maps/canada.html
City
of Saskatoon - Quick Facts
http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca/org/quick_facts/index.asp
Meewasin Valley
Authority http://www.meewasin.com/
Alternative Biomes
The
World's Biomes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/
Enchanted
Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/
CyberZoo
http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/biome.html
Other Places to SEARCH for
biomes
www.yahooligans.com/
www.factmonster.com/
www.encyclopedia.com/
Challenge Two:
After reading chapter three, students will compare and contrast
the diet, physical characteristics and habitat of the Great Horned
Owls in the story to another kind of owl assigned to their group.
Students will use the sites listed below to find research about owls.
After gathering the information, students will complete a chart that
compares and contrast characteristics of the two owls. Students will
create a poster about their owl which includes this chart and photo
of the owls.
Owl Pictures
Geocity
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2016/
Great
Horned Owl
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/adv/kidspage/kidquiz/wbirds/horn-owl.htm
Owl pages
The Owl Pages
www.owlpages.com/
Information on
Owls http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~au/owl.htm
Barn
Owl www.members.tripod.com/~Tommy51/aboutbarnowls.html
Gander
Academy's Owl Theme Pages
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/owls.htm
Other Places to SEARCH for owls
www.yahooligans.com/
www.factmonster.com/
www.encyclopedia.com/
Challenge Three:
After reading chapter eleven, students will "Meet the Author."
They will visit two author sites and take notes on his life. They
will then be asked to make a list of things from Farley Mowat's life
that appear in the book, Owls in the Family. Answer these questions:
How would this story be different if he had grown up in a different
biome? What animals would the main character have found and "adopted" as pets from this new biome? There were several reports of bad
weather in the original story. What kind of bad weather would have
happened in this new biome? Take one incident from the story and
write it using different animals that live in the new biome assigned
to you.
Farley
Mowat http://wwwwms.bham.wednet.edu/biograph/mowat.htm
Farley
Mowat http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Mowat.html
Adapted from
http://www.antigoschools.k12.wi.us/users/crestwood/jdivjak/literature.htm
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