Beginning Research Woodland Animals | Nutty Nut Chase | Puppets & Coding Robots

If it's fall, let's read The Nutty Nut Chase and do beginning research about woodland animals! This resource blends beginning animal research with stick puppets for retelling the story, AND a coding robot game.

Your students will:

-- Perform a Nutty Nut Chase puppet play by retelling the story.

-- Learn to do a keyword search on your OPAC

-- And even play a coding robot game about buying nuts -- all inspired by this sweet, but fiesty picture book!

This resource includes:

• Instruction pages which explain how I facilitate ALL of these activities as early childhood library centers.

• Graphics to create the popsicle stick puppets. (BONUS: These puppets will ALSO work to retell Jan Brett's The Mitten later in the year!)

• Woodland animal keyword cards to help students learn to select a topic and type keywords into your OPAC (or Pebble Go) for beginning research.

• Four easy graphic organizers for research note-taking. (These are especially formatted to use with Pebble Go, DK Find Out, and World Book Kids... but I also added one blank template, so you can use an alternate resource as needed.)

• An original coding robot game based on The Nutty Nut Chase, and its cute little, problem-solving character named Mole (who happens to have a tunnel full of delicious, crunchy nuts at his disposal!)
  • The students will play the game, counting nuts from 11-19, as they code with Bee-Bot, Botley, Code-and-Go Mouse, Ozobot Bit, and similar coding robots.
  • I made the game pieces in several versions to help you differentiate.
  • Two exit tickets are included for assessment.

• Finally, I added a little information about beginning coding robots and about how I make inexpensive coding grid mats for my centers.

Be sure to look at my preview, so you can see most of the components of this fun fall resource up close. This is an older Scholastic book, (c)2005, so if you can't find it to buy, you can go to my youtube channel @thatlibrarygirl1.

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