The
Monarch
Award:
Illinois'
K-3
Children's Choice Award
2009
Master List
Sponsored by
the
Illinois
School Library Media Association
2009 Nominee: The Secret Science Project That Ate The SchoolA girl sends off for "Professor Swami's Super Slime" to use as her science fair project and then has to cope with the funny disaster that follows.
Author: Judy Sierra
Illustrator: Stephen Gammell
Book
Activities
- Discussion questions: What is a science project or
science fair?
- Language arts: Make up an advertisement for slime. Persuade others to buy it.
- Writing: Write a story about what the slime ate next. Make up a title and one or two illustrations..
- Math: Use fractions to measure ingredients to make silly putty or “Zlime” as a class activity.
- Science: Conduct simple science experiments or have a "Science"
extravaganza with lots of experiments. Recruit adult helpers.
- Social Studies: Why do we need schools? What would happen if schools disappeared?
- Drama: Have students read one page from the book "with feeling" and videotape their reading.
- Cooking/Food: Create edible slime.
- Art: Analyze Gammell's art and create similar pictures.
Related Books
Books by Judy Sierra :
There's a Zoo in Room 222, Wild about Books, Mind Your Manners, B. B. Wolf
I Was a Third Grade Science Project by Mary Jane Auch
The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters by Judy Sierra
Blast-off Boy and Blorp: The Big Science Fair by Don Yaccarino
Sceince Fair Bunnies by Kathryn Lasky
Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition by Joanna Cole
Owen Foote: Mighty Scientist by Stephanie Greene
Websites
2009 Nominee Resources