Final Fourth Grade Project…
National Treasure!
Name ______Date Due ______
Welcome to the Grand Finale of Fourth Grade! All the research, projects, problem-solving activities and experiments you have done this year have led up to this…the FINAL PROJECT! Your teachers have expertly crafted this series of challenging activities designed to show just how capable you are of demonstrating all you’ve learned in school this year! Good luck…and remember…navigating your way successfully through this “Treasure Map” will lead you to the end of Fourth Grade!

Here’s how you will be completing your project Guide Book:

  • You will complete each of the subject area components as described in the project guidelines.
  • You will need to design a cover.
  • Include a table of contents.
  • Have all pages NUMBERED in your Project Guide Book.
  • You are also responsible for putting all pieces of the project together into a binder/folder/plastic presentation cover.
(Please look at the examples your teacher has available)
ORDER OF PROJECT CONTENTS
Reading:
Read TWO of the “National Treasure” and “Founding Father”-related books your teacher has set out for you. Take the AR Quiz for each book. Use the Reading Paper provided by your teacher to record the names of the two books you read along with the AR Quiz score for each book. Include this sheet in your project Guide Book.
Social Studies:

Explore geography with a latitude and longitude search based on the clues in the movie National Treasure.
Use Mapquest to input the following latitude and longitude measurements and find the locations of the clues in National Treasure. When inputting the locations be sure to place a minus sign (-) in front of the southern longitudes (on the degrees only).
Latitudes/Longitudes
51º 30” 56’ W / 0º 7” 16’ S
25º 42” 4’ E / 32º 38” 60’ N
2º 15” 47’ E / 42º 55” 41’ N
39º 57” 22’ E / -75º 11” 38’ S
44º 26” 38’ E / -64º 18” 50’ S

38º 53” 22’ E / -77º 1” 55’ S
38º 53” 36’ E / -77º 1” 18’ S
42º 21” 30’ E / -71º 3” 32’ S
40º 42” 30’ E / -74º 0” 45’ S

Use the sheet provided by your teacher to record the information from your search. Include this sheet in your project Guide Book.

Art:

In the movie, Benjamin Franklin Gates uses a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence to locate the “National Treasure”.

Your job is to design your own treasure map on a sheet of construction paper (provided by your teacher). Your treasure map will need to show WHERE the treasure hunter needs to go, and provide CLUES as to what he or she will find there. Use your knowledge of history and geography to determine what might be some OTHER national treasures a treasure hunter could find!

Your treasure map must include:

At least 5 of the following locations:

  • Yorktown, Virginia
  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • The Adirondack Mountains
  • Buffalo, New York
  • New York City
  • Albany, NY
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Youngstown, NY
  • Lockport, NY
  • Lexington, MA
  • Fort Ticonderoga, NY

Your map must include:

  • A compass rose
  • Reasonable locations for each place (ex.-Don’t have Albany right next to Buffalo! Or Yorktown north of Lockport!)
  • Color, creativity and correctness!

You will fold, and place your completed Treasure Map into your Project Guide Book.

Science:

Benjamin Franklin Gates watched his grandfather try to figure out what the symbols on a dollar bill were trying to tell them. He knew that the symbols that are on the United States one-dollar bill are very important to the clues and United States history. Follow the directions on the Activity Sheet that will lead you to discover the important symbols from history that are hidden in the one-dollar bill!

Don’t forget to use these important websites to help you with this activity!

Health:

As Benjamin Franklin Gates travels around the world so quickly in search of the “National Treasure”, he needs to be sure he eats right to keep up his strength! Pretend you were his nutritionist! Design a healthy diet for Ben that will last him one week. Be sure to include a BREAKFAST, SNACK, LUNCH and DINNER for each day for 7 days. Use what you’ve learned about healthy eating habits to help you create this plan. You will complete this activity on the sheet provided by your teacher. Add your finished work to your project Guide Book.

Language Arts:

As you watched this movie, thoughts were going through your head about your favorite parts, favorite characters, feelings about the movie and many other ideas. Movie critics are paid to watch movies and write reviews based on facts in the movie and their opinions about what they saw on the “big screen.” They do this in order to give the general public their opinion on the movie. This allows the reader to make judgments about the movie based on your opinion and then decide whether it is a movie that they would like to see.

So, you are going to write a review for National Treasure! Follow the guidelines given on the sheet provided by your teacher. This will guide you through step by step on how to write a great movie review. Make sure you remember to include the main idea and an excellent summary of what YOU saw on the big screen!

Here are some examples:

DR. SEUSS' HORTON HEARS A WHO. Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen and Charles Osgood provide the voices for Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino's animated adaptation of the much-loved Dr. Seuss classic about a protective elephant and a microscopic village of Whos. It's quite wonderful I thought … like jazz, in that it takes all the stuff people remember from Seuss' original and then riffs and improvises on it all with great wit and powers of invention. Nor is it all Carrey and Carell doing the improvising either, though you can bet your skateboard they did more than their share. It's the writers here who knew how to make things delightful … and the directors (who previously gave us "Ice Age'). Truth to be told, some of us find this more fun than, yes, "Ratatouille.'‚ 88 minutes. (Rated G.) 3 and a half stars (Jeff Simon

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN. Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, William Mosley and Peter Dinklage in the second in a series of adaptations of C.S. Lewis' children's books about schoolchildren whisked off to an imaginary medieval adventure world. Straight from the shoulder here: It's more than a bit tedious until the big wartime special effects and CGI take over in the last 45 minutes. If you don't remember the original movie all that well and you don't know the seven-book series, you're left deciphering a lot of plot full of Christian symbolism, when you're not enjoying all the fabulous creatures and the adorableness of child actress Georgie Henley, the one whose faith in Aslan, the Great Lion, gives the movie whatever humanity it has. (Heaven knows, Prince Caspian, the supposed noble hero, seems more than a bit of a ninny.) I suspect the book was punishingly hard to adapt. It's midway between "Harry Potter' and "Lord of the Rings' and not nearly as compelling as either.‘ 144 minutes. (Rated PG for bloodless, goreless action.) 2 and a half stars (Jeff Simon)

Your TYPED movie review will be included in your Project Guide Book.

Math:

Write and solve 4 word problems based on the movie National Treasure. Be sure to provide the question at the top of the paper and the solution on the bottom half. You will need to make one word problem for each of the following types of problems:

  1. Multiplication
  2. Division
  3. Fractions
  4. Rates

Remember, we have seen the work you are capable of this year! Since this is your FINAL PROJECT of Fourth Grade, we expect the utmost quality of work! Before handing in this project, ask yourself, “Is this my most quality work?” Only when the answer is YES, are you ready to hand it in.