Cubing

We will be learning how to organize our thoughts about The Great Lakes using the information we learned in Lesson One: These Lakes Are Great and Lesson Two: Great Lakes at Stake.

What is it that we will be doing?
We will use a tissue or shoebox that we cover with paper. We will answer six questions and put those answers on this page. Your group will also use either a caption or drawing to represent your answers on each side of our box.

How do we do it?
Use a box (i.e. tissue or shoe box) that is in the shape of a cube to make a visual prop. Cover the cube completely with sheets of plain paper.

Label each of the six sides with the following way to write about something:

1. Describe the Great Lakes. What are the Great Lakes? Name them.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Compare them to something you know. Is it like anything else you know of? What is it?
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Associate it. Where have you visited that could remind you of the Great Lakes?
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Analyze it. What are the Great Lakes made up of besides water? What kinds of pollution exist in our lakes? Name five species that depend on the Great Lakes.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Apply it. How can we help our lakes get better? How are our lakes used and by whom?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Take a stand. What are your reasons for or against protecting or conserving the Great Lakes?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   *This has been adapted from:
   Michigan Department of Education (1998). User Friendly: A Writing Handbook for Content Area Teachers - Social Studies.
   Richardson, J.S.& Morgan, R.F. (1997). Reading to Learn in the Content Areas.