Island of the Blue Dolphins

This website is designed to support the Language Arts curriculum and gain technology skills simultaneously.

The following standards are addressed in this unit:

2.02 Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening, and viewing by:

• making predictions.


• formulating questions.


• supporting answers from textual information, previous experience, and/or other sources.


• drawing on personal, literary, and cultural understandings.


• seeking additional information.


• making connections with previous experiences, information, and ideas.

2.09 Listen actively and critically by:

• asking questions.


• delving deeper into the topic.


• elaborating on the information and ideas presented.


• evaluating information and ideas.


• making inferences and drawing conclusions.


• making judgments.

3.02 Make connections within and between texts by recognizing similarities and differences based on a common lesson, theme, or message.

3.06 Conduct research (with assistance) from a variety of sources for assigned or self-selected projects (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).

4.05 Use a variety of preliminary strategies to plan and organize the writing and speaking task considering purpose, audience, and timeline.

Extension Activities:

Create a food pyramid to show how Karana ate healthy.

http://ucsdnutritionlink.org/lesson4g3b.htm

Create a replica of art produced by the Channel tribes.

http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/pcart.htm

 Conduct an earthquake study.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php