Design your Aquarium Poster

Revising and Publishing
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Get your supplies.
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Put your research packet, notes, and outline in a neat pile to the
side for now. Put your writing checklist side by side with your draft.
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Find the introduction section of your checklist. Read your
introduction and check off the parts you already have.
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Revise your introduction.
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Read your first body paragraph. Check off the parts you already
have. Revise to make sure all the boxes are checked.
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Read the revision ideas to yourself. When you’re done, show
a quiet thumbs up.
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Pick one revision idea, and revise your first body paragraph using
the idea that you chose.
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Revise the remaining paragraphs in your draft.
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Recopy to write your final draft.
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If you need a natural stopping point:

Teachers: This is a natural stopping point. The next steps will guide students through designing and assembling their final poster. If students are typing, print student posters before moving on. If you stop here, be sure to put all the VIPs somewhere safe!

If you’re continuing right now, go to the next slide.

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Get your supplies.
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Get your research packet. Gently pull your bibliography worksheet
off the back of your research packet. Put the rest of your research
packet away.
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Use two staples to staple your bibliography to the back of your
first poster page.
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Write or draw what you’d like to put next to the submarine
and inside the rock on your poster.
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Put glue in the grey box where it says “glue here.” Carefully line
up the second page of your poster with the top of the grey box
and press down.
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Use your coloring supplies to design your final poster with color.
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Design your Aquarium Poster
Revising and Publishing
5.0 (1 review)

Students will...

Print Prep
  • use a self-assessment checklist to revise their writing.

  • design and assemble their final poster.

Before this lesson...

  • Students should have completed Lessons 1-4 of this unit.

  • Students should have finished writing a first draft of their poster.
Bioluminescence Final Poster worksheet 1 per student
Bioluminescence Writing Checklist worksheet 1 per student
Bioluminescence Notes from previous lesson
1 per student
Bioluminescence Outline from previous lesson
1 per student
Bioluminescence Research Packet from previous lesson
1 per student
Coloring supplies
1 per student
Glue Sticks
1 per student
Poster Drafts from previous lesson
1 per student
Stapler
1 per class

OPTIONAL SUPPLIES

Bioluminescence Digital Poster worksheet 1 per student
Prep Instructions
  • Students will need to bring their completed work from the previous lesson to this lesson.

  • Final drafts can be completed by hand or digitally. A digital worksheet is provided if you would like students to type their posters.

  • If students are recopying by hand, you can print extra copies of the second page of the poster for students whose writing is longer than two pages. Students working digitally can make a copy of the second page of their poster.

  • This lesson is separated into two parts and can be taught in two different sessions if needed. A natural stopping point is included after students are given the instructions to write their final draft. The second part of the lesson guides students through crafting and decorating their final poster.

Standards

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Introduction

5 mins

Writing Activity

40 mins

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Bioluminescence Lesson 5: Design your Aquarium Poster

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