Computer Resources:
- Monsters vs. Aliens Website (includes trailer, "Make a Monster" activity, a movie about 3-D, widget and more, crafts, party things)
- Monsters vs. Aliens Trailers
- Monsters vs. Aliens at Wikipedia
- Monsters vs. Aliens Video Game
- Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum (in San Francisco, the setting of the movie)
- work on adjectives such as straight vs. crooked by studying sites in San Francisco like Lombard Street (the world's crookedest street) or work on prepositions like on and off and over and under by looking a various pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge and describe things like, "The boat is under the bridge" or "The car is on the bridge"
- work on vocabulary using the "Dossiers" section of the Monsters vs. Aliens website and matching symbols for adjectives describing the various characters with the characters themselves
Cooking:
- make Sourdough Bread, like that sold at Boudin Bakery on Fisherman's Wharf, this is a process will take a couple of days with a science tie-in
- There are three cooking ideas in the activity guide
- learn about Sourdough Bread and yeast at Kipipedia, Zoom, B is for Bread, eZine, StarChef (a fun tie in is to consider yeast as a monster - The Yeast Beast!)
- study 3-D using the video at the Monsters vs. Aliens website and Journal of Young Investigators, How 3-D Works, How Stuff Works
- There are lots and lots of Monsters vs. Aliens crafts at their website, check out this PDF Activity Guide
- There are also crafts based on the movie at HP.com/create
- Make use construction paper, markers and other craft materials to make a fun "yeast beast" cell as a project
- Make spoon monsters
- Monsters. vs. Aliens Coloring Pages
Adapted P.E.:
- capture the flag monsters vs. aliens style (one team is monster and one aliens - consider costumes!)
- tag monsters vs. aliens style
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