FES students participated in nine-week, hands-on problem based webquest called Roboquest while reading A Wrinkle in Time. IN order to share the many activities with their Arizona E-pals, they created and published a How-To book that would teach their E-pals all of these projects, activities, and their new discoveries. The book was published using Lintor Publishing and then mailed to the OES students.

Not Lost in Space

A “How-To” Book inspired by

A Wrinkle in Time

Written by: Mrs. Ramsay’s 5^th grade students

at Fultondale Elementary School Fultondale, Alabama

This book is dedicated to our E-Pals in Mrs. Cooper’s 5^th and 6^th grade project IDEAL classes

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 How to Make a Diamante Poem page 3

Chapter 2 Can a Robot Tie Your Shoe?” page 5

Chapter 3 How to make “Stargazer’s Delight” page 6

Chapter 4 How to Make an Acrostic Poem page 7

Chapter 5 How to Make Constellation Art page 8

Chapter 6 How to Write a Descriptive Paper page 9

Chapter 7 How to Build a Robot Arm page 10

Chapter 8 How to Publish a Book page 11

About the Authors Page 12

Chapter 1

How to make a Diamante Poem

A diamante poem relates to A Wrinkle in Time because, it ties two people, that are entirely different in the story, together. It shows how they are alike and how they are different.

· Have you ever wanted to make a diamante poem, but didn’t know how to make one? Here is how to write a diamante poem:

o Step 1: The first step to making a diamante poem is, you pick two topics/characters that are different. Then you write one of your topics/ characters on the first line. This should be a noun.

o Step 2: Next, you write two adjectives on the second line that will describe your character/topic.

o Step 3: On the third line of your paper, you should write three past participles ending with “ed”, “ing”, or “d” that describe your first topic/character.

o Step 4: After that, on the fourth line, you should write two adjectives describing your first character/topic, and two adjectives and two adjectives describing your second character/topic.

o Step 5: On the fifth line you should write three past participles that end with “ed”, “ing”, “d” that describe your second topic/character.

o Step 6: Now, on the sixth line you should write two adjectives that describe your second character/topic.

o Step7: Finally, on the last line, you should write the name of your second topic/character.

· These steps will help and guide you in making a great, and awesome diamante poem.

· Now, here are some examples of how your diamante poem should look…

Margaret Murry

Intelligent, Unhappy

Frustrated, Challenged, Worried

Girl, Impatient-Man, Hypnotist

Red-Eyed, Controlled, Willing

Hypnotic, Controlling

Man with Red Eyes

Earth

Life, Round

Inverting, Dwelling, Streaming

Azure, Life-like-Yellow, Vivid

Dominated, Tyrannized, Evil

Cold-hearted, Lifeless

Camozotz

Mrs. Ramsay’s Class

Space-lovers, Outstanding

Detailed, creating, building

Learning, racing, developing, brainstorming

Constructed, experienced, experimenting

Science-lovers, Awesome

Mrs. Wicker’s Class

Earth

Lifelike, Round

Flowing, Watered, Rotating

Blue, Man-life, Freezing, Red

Rigid, Smoking, Firing

Icy, Sandy

Mars

Chapter 2

“Can A Robot Tie Your Shoe?”

The experiment, which is called “Can A Robot Tie Your Shoe?”, relates to a Wrinkle in Time, because the characters in the book tesser through time and space. Tessering is impossible in reality. People can’t travel but a certain distance in space. So, that’s why we have robonauts, rovers, satellites, space probes, and rockets to do it automatically. So, in our experiment we used robot arms to try and tie our shoes. If you would like to try this here are some things you will need:

Materials you need:

First you need shoes that can tie
Tongue depressors
Masking tape
Heavy gloves
2 pairs of pliers
Blindfolds

Here is how to conduct the experiment:

First, try tying your shoe blindfolded.
Second, repeat the activity, but with heavy gloves
Third, tape tongue depressors on to your thumbs and forefingers try again.
Fourth, tie your shoes with pliers.
Fifth, use pliers in both hands: then only with one hand.

Finally with two people – each with one pair of pliers.

This experiment shows you that robots are not capable of doing everything that a human can do. What else did you learn from doing this experiment?

Roboquest diagram and photos

Chapter 3

How to make “Star Gazer’s Delight”

We traveled through space while reading A Wrinkle in Time. A “Star Gazer’s Delight” is a pancake and chocolate chips that are supposed to be the night sky and stars. You could also put the chocolate chips as a constellation. You can cook it in an electric skillet Like we did) or on the stove.

These are the steps to make a “Star Gazer’s Delight”:

First, you have to buy some ingredients such as: a skillet, pancake mix, chocolate chips, water, butter, and a spatula.
Second, you open the mix and add water, then stir the batter.
Third, you wait five to seven minutes for the skillet to fully warm up. While you are waiting, add a little butter to keep pancakes from sticking.
Fourth, to see if the skillet is ready, you sprinkle a little water on it. If it sizzles that means it’s ready.
Fifth, you put the pancake mix in and wait ten minutes.
Sixth, two to three minutes later, you sprinkle six to eight chocolate chips on one side of the pancake.
Seventh, as soon as you sprinkle the chocolate chips on the pancake, you flip it and let it soak into the pancake mix.
Finally, when both sides are done you have a “Star Gazer’s Delight.”
Photos of Stargazer's Delight

Chapter 4 How to make an Acrostic Poem

An Acrostic poem is a poem that has the name of a person or character, from a book down the side of a piece of paper. You must put the words or details that describes them down the side of the page. These poems relate to A Wrinkle in Time, because it has the name of the characters and what the book says about them.

Here are the steps to making an Acrostic Poem:

Step1: You pick a person or a character from a book.

We are reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, so we chose characters form that awesome book.

Step 2: You need a blank piece of paper; it can be colored.
Step 3: Write the name of the person down the side of the page, not

across. If you write it across you will have to start over. Now, the

whole name has to fill the whole side of the page, so it’s more

attractive when it’s published.

Step 4: Now, you either look at your person or search through your book

for characteristics of your character. These details will go beside

every letter of the name. Some of the details might have to be

reduced to phrases. When you write your details, you need to

make sure that your words are all spelled correctly. So, to edit

you might want to use this editing strategy called “COPS.”

This is the “COPS” lay out:

C-capitalization

O-organization

P-punctuation

S-spelling

Step 5: You now need to make sure everything is spelled correctly and out

line it with colored pencils.

Step 6: Last, when you are finished publishing, you can hang it up for everyone to read.

E.G:

Makes meals for her kids. Makes a lot of arguments.

Reads in her lab. Aggravated by someone or something.

She is a super smart scientist. Repeatedly fails her work.

Mixes chemicals together to make stuff. Good at fighting.

Usually writes a letter everyday to Mr. Murry Right about almost anything.

Reads to Charles Wallace. Every assault sends her running.

Really good at making stew. Tough when her family gets called names.

Yells at Meg some times.

Chapter 5 How to make Constellation Art

Many years ago, people started playing connect the dots in the sky. Soon, they made stories for the pictures. While reading A Wrinkle in Time, we visited some of these constellations. Today, we have an activity called “Constellation Art.”

Here are steps to making “Constellation Art”:

Step 1: Get Materials- Black construction paper, scissors, white crayon, star stickers,

and constellation art book.

Step 2: Cut the black paper into 6x6 squares.
Step 3: Choose a constellation, and then place star stickers in order.
Step 4: Connect the star stickers with a white crayon.
Step 5: Write the name of the constellation on the paper.
Finally, YOU ARE DONE!!

Chapter 6 How to Write a Descriptive Pape r

Do you know what descriptive writing is? Descriptive writing is writing, that describes a subject or an object. When you’re writing in descriptive mode, you use all five senses.

Here are the steps for Descriptive writing:

Step1: Think of a subject for your paper
Step 2:Make an outline to plan all of your paragraphs for your first draft
Step 3:Write your first draft
Step 4:You revise and edit. You check your paper for spelling mistakes in grammar, and

punctuation. Also, you add adjectives, adverbs, figurative language, and

descriptive vocabulary.

Step 5: Write your final draft, making all of the corrections and additions.
Step 6: Publish your paper.

Before you write, make a plan by listing, mapping, webbing, organizing with graphic organizers, and even brainstorming.

Here is a prompt for a descriptive paper:

Our prompt:

You are an astronaut on a secret mission for the government. Something goes wrong with your spacecraft, and you end up in an uncharted system of planets. You manage to safely land on one of those planets. Describe the planet you landed on.

The next step is to write your first draft.

First you need to list the three details.

Then think about how you want the reader to feel.

Next, you need to describe each detail using senses, adjectives, and strong verbs.

For the conclusion, remind your reader about the topic then restate your three or more details. The next step is to revise and edit.

Revise means to use 50 – cent words (big vocabulary).

You have to have a different way to begin your sentences, for interest.

Chapter 7 How to Build a Robot Arm

The experiment, which is called Robot Arm, relates to a Wrinkle in Time, because the characters in the book tesser through time and space. Tessering is impossible in reality. People can’t travel but a certain distance in space. So, that’s why we have robonauts, rovers, satellites, space probes, and rockets to do it automatically. So, in our experiment we used robot arms to try and tie our shoes.

Have you ever wanted to make your own robot arm? Well, now you can. There are just four steps to make ours. You’ll need your team to successfully follow the rules to make one.

First, you have to get the materials. Our materials are wooden craft sticks, a manual hand drill, and some small brass paper fasteners. Now on to the first step, which is to drill holes through the craft sticks as shown on the diagram below. Make sure you don’t make such a big of a hole where you have to start over again. It should only be big enough to fit the paper fastener through it. Before that though, dampen the craft sticks so it will reduce cracking the wood when you drill.

For your second step you will need to get the drilled craft sticks that you did on the above step and take the brass paper fasteners and sticking them through the wholes you just drilled. The third step is to assemble the robot arm that you have made (see the diagram below). Make sure that you followed the last two rules. If not skim back through the last three paragraphs fluently. Then move on to the next step.

The fourth step, but not the last, is to take your robot arm you successfully made and try to pick up a marker, pencil, and paper clip. Write down if you succeeded and on which utensils.

Last and final, think about these questions:

. How do you think it was be successful?

. How would the end effecter of the arm pick up pebbles on Mars?

Photos of building a robot arm

Chapter 8 How To Publish A Book

In order to publish all of these How-to ‘s, we have to publish a hard-back book. We get our hard-back book covers from Lintor Publishing. Their website is www.lintorpublishing.com. The steps to publishing a book are:

1^st step: Type your story on the computer on Microsoft Word using the Lintor template.

2^nd step: Print your story.

3^rd step: Get the hard-back book cover.

4^th step: Bend your book cover to set the book spine.

5^th step: Staple your pages together on the left side. Make sure you put one piece of binding paper, sticky side out, on the front and back of your

book pages.

6^th step: Stick blank pieces of binding paper on the inside front and back covers.

7^th step: Press the covers together to make sure the binding paper really sticks to the inside of the covers

8^th step: Place the long pieces of reinforcing tape at the inside cover where the spine and book meet.

9^th step: Open the label template and type the label for your title.

10^th step: Place the title label on the front of the book.

You’ve completed the book. Enjoy reading your published book! Book publishing photos

About the Authors

Mrs. Ramsay’s fifth grade students attend Fultondale Elementary School in Fultondale, Alabama. Fultondale is a small town fifteen minutes north of Birmingham. This is their first year in a beautiful new school building. The old school was torn down and now there is a Target where they used to go to school.

They enjoy reading great books, creating fantastic writing, and participating in great technology projects in all of their classes. They also enjoy doing learning teams and working cooperatively with their classmates. However, their favorite thing is to share themselves, their family, their community and their school by writing to their E-pals at Oakwood Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona.