Hatchet book project ideas

Engage students in Brian's survival journey in Hatchet with StoryboardThat's free booklet activities, emphasizing resilience, resourcefulness, and growth.

My students presented their Paper Bag Character assignments today. LOVED it!!! They worked so hard on these projects, and it definitely paid off. Their final projects were awesome! When the students finished presenting their 10 items inside the bag, we set all the projects up in the nutrition area outside my classroom, and had a gallery walk-through. This is the first time I've done the gallery walk-through with these projects ... but not the last. Next year I'd like to invite a few…

Enjoy book unit samples from Hatchet.

The novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is awesome to read and teach with upper elementary and middle school students. With the theme of nature, wilderness,

Ancient Civilizations have long been my favourite units to teach. I remember loving them when our teacher taught us about them in Middle School, they were some of my favourite courses I took in university, and I still love teaching them today. Mesopotamia is always a fun one to teach, simply because a lot of it is still really new to the kids; a lot of them have background information about Egypt, Greece, and Rome, but very little about Mesopotamia. I feel like I am working with a blank…

We are currently reading the book, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. We focus on several skills while reading the book. One of these skills is visualization. In this book, Gary Paulsen uses a ton of des…

Novel Studies that Promote Higher-Order Thinking Have you been following along our novel study journey? If so, you may have seen my posts about using interactive novel workbooks instead of typical novel studies. Novel workbooks are

The novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is awesome to read and teach with upper elementary and middle school students. With the theme of nature, wilderness,

Hatchet t-shirt book report

Enjoy these Hatchet Unit samples and teaching ideas for upper elementary teachers.