Publisher's Synopsis
This mini "Leap Year" pack takes a look at why we have a leap year. This Historical Perspectives pack explores February 29th, through a fiction and non-fiction text, as well as through primary source photos and documents for grades 3-6.
The pack includes a pack for students, which you can print as a packet or as individual pages which you can spread out over a few days.
Included are the following:
- Fictional passage about the Leap Year
- Non-Fiction passage about Leap Year
- Questions to go along with each of the passages.
- A crossword puzzle
- A word search
- A poetry activity including multiple poems about Leap Year
The version includes the pages above, as well as the following:
- A K-W-P organizer to help students discuss what they KNOW, what they WANT to know, and what their PARTNERS know/want to know.
- There are also 18 DEEP DIVE questions for students to discuss after reading the passages about the topic. These questions can be used to deeply discuss the topic on a higher level. They can be used in multiple ways, but I suggest using them to have students ask a partner or small group. Each student can be assigned a question and then students can rotate around to have these deep conversations with one another.
I hope this pack helps you and your students explore this topic in an easy way.
Happy Teaching!
-Dan
