Cowboy Economics and Literacy Unit
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Description
This mini-packet uses Gail Gibbons' Cowboys and Cowgirls book to discuss the life of a cowboy/girl. This 3 day mini-pack has lesson plans, Common Core standards for activities, pictures, and materials needed.
Check out my blog post about how I use this in my classroom!
INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:
• 5 days of plans and Common Core Standards covered
• Western Words anchor chart template
• cowboy/girl vocabulary picture and word match for introducing vocabulary and practicing at stations or centers
• label the parts of a cowboy printable (lasso, bandana, spurs, boots, chaps, saddle, stirrups)
• If I were a cowboy/girl prompt
• Opinion writing prompt: Would you want to be a cowboy/girl?
• Informative writing prompt: The Life of a Cowboy
• Cowboy/girl craft pictures, directions, and tracers/copies
• Detailed instructions for producing a stick horse (perfect for integration of economics with producers, manufacturing, assembly line, resources, etc...)
• Stick Horse production line station cards with directions
• Wants and Needs of a Cowboy Sort: one to do whole group or in stations/centers and one for independent practice
RELATED RESOURCES:
Life Lessons & Economics Integrated 6 Week Unit
Copyright Whitney Shaddock, 2018, licensed for one classroom use only. Please use the multiple licensing option for more than one classroom use!
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