Kings Park Elementary

Heroes

Hooray For Heroes

The unit starts with students learning what it means to be a hero. This is followed by the creation of a class book. (idea taken from Copycat Magazine-Jan/Feb 2002)

Life-size historical heroes can be created in art class while they are studying about historical heroes.

Students map the birthplace of the historical figures and add the school and personal heroes later. (Our maps were created using MapMaker Toolkit, but any map would work.)

A hand flag can be created to go along with the historical figure study. In our unit, it happened to coincide with the 100th day of school.

School heroes are chosen by the democratic voting process. Then they are invited to the room to be interviewed, measuring and have their silhouette drawn.

Riddles are created using the interview answers. The silhouettes and riddles are hung in the hall for students and teachers to enjoy.

Students choose their personal hero and with the teachers' help, write a short story. In art class, they paint a hero portrait.

Each child creates a hero coin with their hero's picture on one side and a denomination on the other side.

They also create a button with the student's picture and name. This button is worn by the hero at the evening celebration.

A class newspaper was written compiling all of the personal hero stories and each student's picture.

A questionnaire is taken home to help students interview their hero. When the information returns to school, it is used to plot the hero's birthplace on the US or world map, and graph the ages and birth months.

Some conclusions are drawn from the graphs and these are written on sentence strips. (ie. "There are more hero birthdays in April than any other month.")

A Hooray for Heroes banner is created.

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Page created by Barbara Johnston and Brooks Widmaier
March 20, 2002

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