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Something's
Fishy, Hazel Green!: Odo Hirsch
Read Something's Fishy Hazel
Green! by Odo Hirsch, then try the challenges below.
| Challenge 1
Your first challenge is to
create a team poster of Mr Petrusca's fish shop window. Follow the steps
below to do this:
1.) On a poster sized piece
of paper, paint or draw a large shop front with a big window.
2.) Use the Internet to
find pictures of different types of fish. If you can, try to find the types
mentioned in chapter 1.
3.) Copy the pictures to
your computer and divide them amongst your team members. Each team member
should then:
4.) Open one of the fish
pictures in a painting program.
5.) Lasso the fish and make
several copies of it.
6.) Change the sizes and
orientation of the copies slightly, so it looks like you have a whole group
of one type of fish, then bunch them up together.
7) Paint a tray around the
fish and type the name of the fish on the side of the tray.
8.) Print the picture, cut
it out and paste it onto the shop window your team drew.
9.) Repeat until you have
filled the shop window with a good variety of fish.
10.) Put the title 'Something's
Fishy, Hazel Green!' at the top of your poster and pin it up in your grade
to advertise the book.
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Challenge 2
Hazel Green had many valuable
attributes of a true friend. One of these attributes was loyalty. Loyalty
means that you give your friendship and stick up for your friends through
the bad times as well as the good. It's easy to be loyal when you lose
nothing by it. It's much harder when loyalty could bring you embarrassment
or trouble. How many things can you list that Hazel did in the story that
would have been difficult for her and which demonstrated her loyalty towards
her friends.
Send your team's answers
Hazel Green Mail List
hazel@teacher.schools.net.au
and see which team
comes up with the most examples!
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Challenge 3
There are a surprising number
of adults today who can't read. These people usually try to hide that fact
due to embarrassment. Often even their wives or husbands don't know. Most
TAFE and adult education colleges run reading courses to help such people.
The problem is, how do you get them to attend if they don't want others
to know that they can't read?
Discuss your team's ideas
for how to contact and persuade non reading adults to enroll in an adult
reading course. Email your ideas Hazel
Green Mail List hazel@teacher.schools.net.au
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Challenge 4
In the story, Mr Trimbel's
friend wrote him a message in code. As a team, your challenge is to first
work out your own code and then write down a simple question using your
code.
You must also provide a clue
to breaking your code. Choose 2 vowels and two consonants that are used
in your question, and tell us what they are.
Post your team's question with the
clue to the Hazel
Green Mail List hazel@teacher.schools.net.au.
See whether anyone can answer your question! Your team must also try to
decode at least one question that another team has posted to the Mailing
List. When you work it out, send a reply to the Mailing List, with your
answer.
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Challenge 5
Hazel Green thought of herself
as a chaotic thinker. Creative and interesting ideas just popped into her
head and that was the way she liked it . She enjoyed being unpredictable.
Her friend the Yak was a logical thinker who studied patterns in things
and worked out how one thing related to another.
Both types of thinking can
be useful in solving a puzzle or problem.
Your team's final challenge
is to put yourselves into Hazel Green's shoes to come up with some creative
solutions to the problem below. The more 'chaotic' and unpredictable your
solutions are, the better. (However they still have to work!) Create a
web page which states the problem and shows the solutions you've come up
with. Make the page as interesting looking as you can. Use pictures if
you wish.
The
Problem
It's
Sam's wedding day. He's due at the church in 30 minutes which is OK because
it takes 15 minutes to get there and he's nearly ready. He's put on his
new dark blue suit and is looking for the blue socks to match, but he can't
find them anywhere. Suddenly he looks out of the window. Someone's washed
them! There they are, hanging dripping wet on the line! He doesn't have
another pair of socks of the right color and he can't go squishing up the
isle in soaking wet socks. What can he do?
Save your team's web page
as 'your team name with a .html extension'. There must be no spaces or
capital letters in the name. For example, if your team name was 'The Green
Dragons', your web page must be saved as: thegreendragons.html
Email
your team's page as an attachment, along with any graphics you've used, to
Hazel Green Maintainer jen@teacher.schools.net.au
Please allow 24 hours for your
page to be posted to the Hazel Green Student Site. To view the webpages submitted
by teams, please click here Hazel
Green Student Web Pages
site.
