Kerpoof Lesson Plan: Fractured Fairy Tales
As promised, here are the files for following a very entertaining and enlightening Kerpoof project lesson plan appropriate for grades 3-6. I suppose even older students could benefit from such a project, but it would have to be adapted.
The gist: Students take popular fairy tales or nursery rhymes and fracture them, just like the Fractured Fairy Tales from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Of course, most of our students have NO idea that cartoon even existed, so you’ll have to show them what you mean using alternative methods. I suggest The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Szcieska. Using the movie or story options in Kerpoof, students retell the tale(s) or rhyme(s) of their choice, and hilarity ensues. We had a blast! The students really challenged themselves to create their projects the way they wanted them to be. This included drawing their own sprites for objects and characters using Super Doodle, as well as doing lots of work on Kerpoof to get enough coins to buy what they needed. Also, students really pushed themselves to get their movies just right. All around, it’s a great lesson that goes beyond creative writing. And I’m not just saying that because it’s my lesson plan. Well, maybe I am…
Without further ado…the files ye be needin’.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
This sounds a lot like like Odessy of the Mind where a group of children a challanged with a problem and give rules to solve that problem. It takes a lot of creativity and thought. What wonderful fun.
DW Golden
Soar with Fairies in Purple Butterflies, a new young adult novel now available at Amazon.com
January 29th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Absolutely Grand! I love the connections to literacy.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Odyssey of the Mind is actually now called Destination Imagination (at least here in Memphis). The students have a prepared challenge and an improvisational challenge.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Dear Laura– We LOVE your Fractured Fairy Tales lesson plan using Kerpoof! As you probably know, we post lesson plans for teachers at http://www.kerpoof.com/teach?c=lesson_plans. We’d like to know if we may have permission to include yours on our site!
Very sincerely,
Carrie Fross
Director of Education
Kerpoof