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Monsters
2012
Welcome to Monster
Central! Email: smithterryk@gmail.com We have a TOP
Monster for 2012
We are an ongoing Community. Many Educators have been |
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The chart below will fill as classrooms choose their parts to design and describe. |
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Elementary classes from the United States and around the world collaborate in this standards based project. After choosing a Monster part, each class writes a description of that part. After all descriptions have been sent in, each class builds its own 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. Kids get deliberate practice in collaboration to construct their class MONSTER. The result is satisfying proof that a community of kids can accomplish anything!! Elissa Gerzog began the project in the 1990's calling it Monsters Monsters Monsters© using e-mail as the main interface. I began running the project in 2000 and modified it to a web-based interface, which has grown to include podcasts, wikis, and video. In its current form, the project is known simply as Monsters. If this sounds like fun, please send an email and join - smithterryk@gmail.com. I am your host at Monster central, Dr. Terry Smith, assistant professor of education at Western Illinois University.
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Sample descriptions HEAD:
circular, black,
red dots, blue triangles, You may use up to |
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SEE Kids at Work |
HEAR Sizwe's Message from Kwazulu Natal, South Africa |
PLAY a Critical Thinking Monster game |
[See example descriptions from a previous project]
2012 Descriptions
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1. ARMS - Ms. Gallico's & Ms. Meyer's 4th grades - River Valley School, Lemont, Illinois. 36 inches long, 12 inches wide, Tie dye bones, Transparent arm, Muscular, Sparkling spikes, Unicorn tattoo, Bloody |
2. TOES - Miss Stickelmaier &
Mrs. Young, 3rd Grade, Canton Westview Elementary, Canton, IL: BLOG
- Each foot has twenty toes,
short,
chubby,
red,
pink,
blue,
green,
hairy,
ugly,
sharp,
pentagon-shaped with
slimy
scars. |
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3. EYES - Mr.
Humble's 5th grade & Miss Morris'4th grade, St.
Oswald's Primary, Burneside, Cumbria, England: (lower) Popping out of a
square socket, gigantic glow-in-the-dark orange eye dripping with green
slime |
4. EARS - Ms. Thonn, Hately, and
Cikowski's 4th grades -
River
Valley School, Lemont, Illinois. Hairy, Warty, Fat, Slimy, Midnight blue, Pointy, Waxy,
Huge, Bloody, Spikey, Smelly, French-fry-like |
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5. NECK - Mr. Greenberg's 2nd grade, The
Brainwaves, Columbus School, Bridgeport, Connecticut: Neck-12 inches long with red and
white horizontal stripes or rings around the neck. |
6. ELBOWS - Maureen Gibbons’ 3rd Grade, Jaworek Elementary School, Marlborough, Massachusetts: Make fuzzy five inch blue spherical elbows dotted with orange gooey slime. |
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7. HEAD - Mrs. Berkman's 5th Grade Core Connections Classes at Voyager Academy in Durham, NC - BLOG - peanut-shaped, 26 in tall, 14 in wide at top & bottom, 10 in wide in middle, red, slimy, scar-covered |
8. TAIL - Mrs. Cody's 6th/Mrs. Breheny's Kindergarten, St. Paul School, Macomb, Illinois. : Spiky, Fiery, rainbow, purple and pink fluffy spots, silky, sparkly, golden, wrap around, white and blue snowflakes, 4 feet long by 1 foot wide |
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9. NOSE - Miss
Alder's 1st grade, St. Oswald's Primary, Burneside, Cumbria, England: Long, purple pointed nose with
massive, hairy nostrils and lots of red spots. The nose also has lots of
disgusting, green snot dripping out of it. |
10. FINGERS - Mr.
Garrett Ferguson's grade 4 - Lafayette Regional, Franconia, New
Hampshire: 3 on each hand,
turquoise sharks 8 inches long as fingers with open mouths, all the sharks
from all the hands biting into one World |
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11. LEGS - Mrs.
O’Brien & Mr. Dickinson |
12. TEETH - Ms. Halbert’s 3rd grade - J.
Fithian Tatem Elementary Haddonfield, New Jersey - BLOG
- (4 in all): 2 Cone shaped
(2in wide, 3 in long) moldy, butter-yellow with blue flecks, a hole in one
with a slimy spider-worm coming out. 2 “J” shaped (3 in wide, 9 in
long) silver with a red-tip, ridged & jagged. |
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13. BODY - Ms. Tarasevich's Class -Abanskaya Secondary School 3 - Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia: 1 meter long, Pear shape, green, fluffy, sticky, sticked with bugs, snakes and lizards |
14. LIPS - Jenny Kopp's Class, Miriam School, St. Louis, Missouri - BLOG - Bloody mess, Scary stitches, Porky Pine Sharp. Wet, Blotchy, Chapped, Pink and Green lips, Gigantic, Brown dots on lips, Lopsided |
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15. FEET - 4th grades - Mrs Lulek,
Mrs. Feltz & Mrs. Boyce -
River
Valley School, Lemont, Illinois: 3 ft x 1 ft,
rectangular shaped with
rounded edges, Green with black polka-dots, 5 bloody cuts,7 stitches on
each, brown hair, 3
rainbow spikes on the heels |
16. HAIR - Mrs. Allen's 4th grade classes, Cathedral of St. Raymond School, Joliet, Illinois: spikey, orange-flamed, spider-filled, snake-infested, mohawk hair with long sideburns |
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17. KNEES - Miss Huseman's 4th grade,
Eugene Field
Elementary, Hannibal, Missouri.: Heart shaped, "I Love
MOM" tattoo; Your country's flag; |
18. MOUTH - Miss Smethurst's Reception Class, St. Oswald's Primary, Burneside, Cumbria, England: mouth is as wide as the monsters face and shaped like a cow |
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19. BELLY BUTTON - Mrs.
Nairn's grade 2, Harold
Hatcher Elementary, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
hairy, green,
circle the size of an apple, smelly with warts & goo on the outside,
bloody with bugs, a zombie head inside it. |
20. HORNS - |
| 21. NECKLACE
- Ms. Broekamp-Hall's 2nd
grade, Randall Carter School,Wayne, NJ: - 10 green bony fingers with 1 brown wart on each; fingernails alternate blood red/bat black; bloodshot orange eyeball between each finger |
22. BELT - Dr. T Smith, Monster Central, Western Illinois University: 6 inches wide, yellow, jack-o-lantern buckle with red-eyed spider in center of buckle. |
| 23. WINGS - |
24. HANDS - Miss
Ewing & Mrs. Brakenbury's 4th grade, Monmouth
Central, Monmouth, Illinois.: Hexagon shaped - left: silver,
orange, black; right: green, silver, Big, fat; hairy, slimy, warts,
cheetah print, zigzags |
| 25. EARRINGS - Mrs.Kazakova’s
Class,
4th grade, Abanskaya School 3 – Aban, Russia |
26. JET SKI - Tina Fink, 5th grade math
& science, Our Lady Queen of Heaven School in Lake Charles, Louisiana:
4 ft long ; 1.5 ft
wide; gold and purple body; crinkly or crumply texture; black
handle bars 5 inches long and 2 inches wide; blue streamers 18 in
long on each handle bar |
| 27. TONGUE - Mr.
Simonsen's math class, Colonel
Mitchell Paige Middle School, LA Quinta California: The tongue is a really long and
twisted, blood stained, zombified, with a dead fly and an evil eye. |
28. CELL PHONE - Ms. Delila Heinrichs, Gr.2, Harold
Hatcher Elementary, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada: |
| 29. iPAD - Ms.
Stoolman & Mr. Doerfler, 3rd grade,Yangon
International School (YIS), Yangon, Myanmar: Circular, pitch black with
crimson droplets with gold sparkles and bumpy (See our bio for iPad Apps.) |
30. XBOX - Mrs.
Baker's 4th grade reading class, Valdese Elementary, Valdese North
Carolina: 3
ft. tall, black robot, web covered limbs, wires sticking out, green
slimed |
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31. WRIST WATCH - Ms. Matsumoto’s Grade 1, Bernie Wolfe Community School,Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada: digital, rainbow strap, spikes on the strap because that is scary, smooth strap, square face, bumpy face, about the size of a juice box (even though it’s not really square) |
32. SUSPENDERS - Mrs. Chiang's 1st grade, Stevens Creek Elementary, Cupertino, California: Slimy rainbow stripped disgusting suspenders with shiny red spikes (? in wide) |
| 33. NOSE RING - Mrs. Daemmrich's 4th Grade, Blog - St Mary's Visitation Parish School, Elm Grove, Wisconsin: diamond shaped, 2 inches from top to bottom, made of bone, spiked purple mace ball on the lower point of the diamond shape | 34. EYE GLASSES - Mrs.
Voyles 2nd Grade, Saint Edward's School, Vero
Beach, Florida: funky, 3-D, oval, bright, multi- |
| 35. TOE NAILS - Kimberly
Brown, Teacher George Lee School, Saskatchewan, Canada: - Disgusting, gross, slimy, purple with green spots and look like curly fries! |
36. PASSPORT - Mr. Dziedzic’s 1st Grade, Kang Chiao Bilingual School, New Taipei City, Taiwan: old, ugly, dirty, sticky, yellow, brown, messy, yucky, smelly, little, thin, wet |
| 37. Cup of TEA - Stephanie
Finley’s 4th grade, Brixham Montessori Friends School, |
38. FRIENDSHIP
RING -
Nathalie
Roy - grades 5, Kanata, Ontario, Canada: Gold,
green slimey dots, too big for the fingers symbols & letters engraved:
"eye" luv Monsterella. 1 precious stone, 4 dangling
charms: 1 skull, 1 bone, 1 heart,1 bell |
| 39. CANE - Mrs. Nation's,Mrs. Oursler's
& Miss Friel's 4th grades, West Prairie South
Elementary, Colchester, IL. 4.5
feet tall, 8 inches wide, curved at top, black at the top, zebra striped
in the middle, flames at the bottom, dripping lava, scaly, slimy, moldy,
cobweb-covered, googly-eyed |
40. SKATEBOARD :
Mr. Fehrenbacher's 4th and 5th
grade Reading and Writing Class, Churchill Elementary, Oswego. IL |
| 41. TOE RING - optional | 42. EAR BUDS - Mrs.
McGuire's 4th grade, Eugene
Field Elementary, Hannibal, MO: small, round inside; shiny gold
star shaped outer with skinny silver tube wiring |
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