Project Humpty Dumpty

Essential How will you build a container that has delicate cargo to prevent it
Question: from damage?

Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2
Write explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.
● Introduce a topic and group related information together;
include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
● Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
● Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and,
more, but) to connect ideas within categories of
information.
● Provide a concluding statement or section.

Learning Target: ● We are learning how to write an explanatory text that shows our
reader how to do something. We are successful when we make a
blueprint for Project Humpty Dumpty

We Do Lesson: ● Shared Reading: See PowerPoint

● Watch https://youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg Mars Perseverance
Landing
● Explain the purpose of the project- refer to essential question: How
will you build a container that has delicate cargo to prevent it
from damage?
● Show some diagrams of blue prints
● Students will turn and talk about their ideas
● Students will make a circle map then blueprint of their design ideas.
Make sure they write down what materials they will need.

Closing: Have students share with their partner their blue print and how
they think it is going to project the egg

Clean up