Project Based Learning Activity: Monster Squad .

This project integrates elements of collaboration, design, and planning as students create their own Monster Squad. Students will use their imagination and skills to solve problems when their town is overrun with monsters. It includes assembling a team, planning for an invasion, investigating situations, writing prompts, comic book design, building a diorama, and other scary-fun activities.

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See below for more details on using it with Google Slides.

There are over 20 activities (most are 1 page each) for students to complete. Each page involves an issue or topic they must solve, design, create, or research.

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8 Title Page

9 Introduction

Students learn that monsters have taken over their town.

10-13 Build Your Team

Students build their four person team using classmates.

14 Invading

Students create a one-page newspaper article about the monsters invading town.

15-16 Vocabulary

Students answer vocabulary terms by writing or drawing the term.

17 Adaptations

Students write why monsters would need specific adaptations.

18-22 I Know My Monsters

Students create information on some of the monsters that are invading. They also create their own monster.

23-30 Monster Squad, Assemble

Checklist to follow for assembling the team. Also includes seven tasks for students to follow

24 Supply List

Students develop a list of supplies they’ll need.

25 Tool Belt

Students design and draw the perfect tool belt.

26 Home Base

Students pick four items they need for their home base and why they need them.

27 Classifying Monsters

Students read about the three types of monsters.

28 My First Monster

Students write a short story about the first time they caught a monster.

29 Monsters Love Candy

Students learn that monsters are obsessed with all kinds of candy.

30 High Impact Locations

Students have been following the monsters around town and have figured out where they like to stay and hide out.

31-38 Squad Vs Monsters

Students will use this checklist with seven tasks as they try and defeat the monster invasion.

32 Monstergram

Students use social media to spot the monsters as they move toward the school.

33 Blueprints

Students use their map and knowledge of their school to identify where and how the monsters will most likely try to get in.

34 Almost In

Students determine how and where the monsters will invade school.

35 Setting a Trap

Students create a trap to catch a monster, much like the game Mousetrap.

36 The other Side

Students write a short story from the perspective of the monster.

37 Monster Wrangling

Students write step-by-step instructions for catching a CODE RED monster.

38 All Clear

Students assess the monsters caught and damage done at school.

39-42 The End?

There’s still a lot of unanswered questions for a lot of people. Students will create a 2-3 page comic book that answer the question (or creates more).

43-45 Diorama

Students can create a diorama from any part of this project.

47-53 Diorama Projectible

Use these pages to show students how to create their own diorama. Included are some photos, tips, and a supply list to help students create their own.

53-56 Alternate: Build team

This is an alternate choice for pages 10-13 if kids are working in a group.

As students work through each page, they will make their own decisions and choose the outcomes based on information they learn. By the end, all students will have completed the project, but each version will be based on the creator’s imagination, creativity, and knowledge base.

All pages can be geared towards multiple grade levels, although for some younger students the teacher may need to give more explicit instructions.

Students may choose to use multiple resources to complete each page. They might even choose to work with a partner, but you get final say on that.

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ACCESSING THIS DIGITAL RESOURCE

What you need to get started:

1. Download Link for the Google Slide Product

2. Have access to the Internet and a Google Account. (FREE)

3. Open the file on your own Google Drive and engage while in the edit mode.

4. Printer access to print out the finished product. (OPTIONAL).

Beginning your Google Slides Project:

Before you begin editing/filling in your project, it is VERY important to first make a copy of the file, on your own Google Drive.

Once you make a copy of the original file it will enable you to edit it and make any changes.

After creating a copy of the resource you can decide which slides you would like to include and which ones to delete before you assign this as an assignment.

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