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Monsters 2008
Monster building time: October 1 to October 31 We have the Top Monster for 2008! BEWARE!!! November 23, 2008 7:00 AM CST | |||||||||||||
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Monster Wiki Page - Please add your comments/reflections on doing this project. | ||||||||||||||
Our 4th grade class works with many schools from the United States and around the world. Each class chooses a Monster part. Then, each class writes a description of that part and sends it to this project web. When all of the descriptions are in, each class builds a single MONSTER using everyone's descriptions from the table below. Students discover that designing and building a monster together is a very big job. It is a major lesson in working together and learning to compromise in a group decision process. For example, the kid responsible for the head has to plan with the kids doing the eyes, nose, neck, mouth, ears and hair. So kids must collaborate to construct their class MONSTER . The result is satisfying proof that a community of kids can accomplish anything!! Elissa Gerzog began this as an e-mail project in the 1990's called Monsters Monsters Monsters©. I began running it as web-based in 2000.
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Sample descriptions HEAD: circular, black, red dots,
blue triangles,
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 Video from Mrs. Black |
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HEAR a Monster message from Sizwe in Kwazulu Natal , South Africa | ||
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Monster Wiki Page - add your comments and reflections on doing this project in your classroom.
[SEE example descriptions from last year]
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1. ARMS - Mr. Lee's Classes - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: length -1 meter blue with polka dots, colorful spikes around wrist, flag of country |
2. HANDS - Mr. Humble's 4th Grade, Burneside, England: multi-coloured veins, scarred, lumpy, hairy and bony, with one eye and a mouth on the palm of each hand. (by Molly and the rest of class 5) |
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3. Right EYE- Ms. Wickham's 5th - Laingsburg, Michigan: Ten inch dangling, bloodshot with maggots crawling out and spikes around it |
4. Left EYE - Mr. Greenberg's 3rd - Bridgeport, CT: yellow eyeball, blood shot, black iris with blue pupil, spiky eyelashes and eyebrow |
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5. FEET - Miss Hope’s Class, Paramus, NJ: 2 feet - one red one black, rainbows on both, squishy,1 ft. wide by 6 in. tall |
6. TAIL - Mrs. Cassidy's grade 1 - Moose Jaw, SK, Canada: Green fur, purple dots, brown tip, one metre long, super big spikes |
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7. HEAD – Ms. Duygu, Malatya, Turkey: black hexagon head with sparkling purple and green dots all over it. |
8. EARS - Mr. Simonsen's 4th Grade - Indian Wells, CA: 2 tan 8- inch-diameter tumbleweed spheres; red, green, black, blue, yellow killer bees, tarantulas, scorpions, cockroaches, spiders. |
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9. NOSE - Mrs. Schoonover/Mr. Landrum/Mrs. Hinton 3rd grades - Hannibal, MO: 3D, 2 feet long, rainbow dots, spidery, boils, pig-shaped nostrils, crooked |
10. FINGERS - Mrs. Lowe's grade 4 - Australia: 4 each hand, bony, purple, hairy, warts, yellow nails, 3 red claws |
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11. LEGS
- Miss Huseman's 4th - Hannibal, MO: 4-feet-long |
12. TEETH - Ms. Shih's class - Cupertino, CA- so-sharp-they-can-cut-you-if-you-look-at-them, dirty-brown, purple, translucent-green (some-with-green-slime), 10 rectangular on-the-top, 20, in-two-rows-on-the-bottom, triangular with triangles-poking-out-the-sides. |
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13. BODY - Mr. Ferguson's grade 4 - Franconia, NH: gigantic cobwebbed blue upright rectangle on top of an oval covered in bloody holes |
14. LIPS - Mrs.
Marquardt's 3rd grade - North Dakota: pink,
green checkered, frog-shaped |
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15. NECK- Ms. Peterson's 2nd Grade - Alaska: two feet long, red blood, guitars on it, green spikes, yellow flames |
16. HAIR - Mrs. Grissom's Tech Class - Kansas: One side--red, dirty, smooth, 12 inches long, braided - Other side--green, dirty, rough, 48 inches long, puffy |
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17. KNEES - Mrs. Magdos's 1st Grade - Webster, Texas: (2 per leg)-10" red circle, blue star polka dots, 3 fangs-orange, black, white |
18. ELBOWS - Mrs. Black's 4th Grade - Naches,
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19. BELLY BUTTON - Mrs. Oleksy - Hannibal, MO:Rounded oval shape, pierced with a worm, diamond studded hairs, fluffy maggots |
20. HORNS - Ms. Jenny's 4th grade - Taiwan :2 horns, 30 cm long; made of iron, shape like volcanoes; burst out fire and rocky-eyeballs |
| 21. NECKLACE - Mr. Smith's 4th Grade - Hannibal, MO: yellow, 3-feet-long, 6-inches-wide, four 5-inch red bats, four flaming eyeballs, spidery skull | 22. BELT - Mrs. Knight's Livewires - New Zealand: black, red yellow stripes; skull-shaped buckle, dangling green pompons or circles |
| 23. WINGS - Rose Gardon and Ms Jurnack's 1st grade – Elmwood Franklin School - Buffalo, New York: big, red, heart shaped and covered with diamonds, jewels and spikes. | 24. TOES - Mrs. Baker's 3rd grade - Icard, North Carolina: 40 divided black toes, long, sharp, red nails, long red curly hair |
| 25. EARRINGS - Ms. Smith's 5th grade - Durham, North Carolina: bones, disco balls, rusty, wires, gigantic, bumpy, striped, spiky, wrinkly, sparkly, dangly | 26. FINGER-TOE RINGS - Mr. Maina's Class -Kenya: Finger Rings: 4 rings in each hand, red, 4 inches wide, 2 flaming eyeballs. Toe Rings: 40 toes, blue, 5 inches wide,1 flaming eyeball after every 4 toes. |
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27. TONGUE - Mrs.
Lubna Faraz's 5th grade - Beacon
house | 28. CELL PHONE - Mr. Meyer's 5th Grade -Laingsburg, Michigan: (Eyephone) Spike with eyeball antannae, bloodshot eyeball buttons, carnivorous, bat wings, pop-out spider screen |
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29. MP3 Player - Mrs. Delp's 5th grade - Eugene, Oregon:
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Graph coming |
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