Students come to media center for two 45-minute visits to watch video clips from Beauty and the Beast, White Fang, White Fang 2, and Never Cry Wolf. Media specialist helps students use CD-ROM resources of World Book, Compton's, Grolier's, and National Geographic Mammals encyclopedia. Teacher helps students find answers in in collection of non-fiction books about wolves. Students use scanner and CD-ROM's to collect color pictures of wolves for picture collage in classroom. Students are given time in the classroom to read from collection of non-fiction books about wolves.
Teacher leads students through a chalk talk.
All communication is done by writing. Fact written on board must be new knowledge. Each student gets one turn before any student can have a second turn. Facts written should be short, not long paragraphs. Facts can be challenged or a student can ask for more information by writing questions beside the facts.