Animal Habitats

Author: Donald M. Wynne
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780439453370
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Learning about the world's habitats is fun and engaging with these interactive mini-books and manipulatives. Simple text and realistic art offer children a glimpse into coral reefs, deserts, caves, rain forests, and more, and give them an understanding of how various animals and plants are adapted to these habitats. Teacher pages include background information, easy how-to's, extension activities, and print and Web resources. A great way to introduce children to science and nonfiction! Perfect for building students' vocabulary and background knowledge! A great nonfiction resource! Correlates with science standards.

Animal Habitats!

Author: Judy Press
Publisher: Ideals Publications
ISBN: 9780824967567
Category : Habitat (Ecology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Park rangers explain various animals and habitats as the reader searches for pictures and creates crafts.

Easy Make and Learn Projects - The Human Body

Author: Donald M. Silver
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439040877
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Contains easy instructions for making twenty models, manipulatives, and mini-books that will teach students in grades two through four about the human body.

Animal Habitats

Author: Sam Hutchinson
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781616898496
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Introduce young nature lovers to the wonders of ecology as they explore the earth's most amazing and unusual regions—colorful coral reefs, frozen polar seas, dense, leafy rain forests, and more—and meet the unique animals that call them home. In a world filled with marvelous creatures great and small, astounding discoveries can be found in Sarah Dennis's enchanting, intricate cut-paper illustrations. Readers learn how food webs sustain incredible birds, beasts, fishes, and insects and the ingenious ways that plants and animals adapt to the varied ecosystems of our diverse planet.

Project Based Learning Made Simple

Author: April Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612438199
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
100 ready-to-use projects to challenge and inspire your third-, fourth- and fifth-graders! Project Based Learning Made Simple is the fun and engaging way to teach twenty-first-century competencies including problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity. This straightforward book makes it easier than ever to bring this innovative technique into your classroom with 100 ready-to-use projects in a range of topics, including: Science and STEM • Save the Bees! • Class Aquarium • Mars Colony Math Literacy • Personal Budgeting • Bake Sale • Family Cookbook Language Arts • Candy Bar Marketing • Modernize a Fairy Tale • Movie Adaptation Social Studies • Build a Statue • Establish a Colony • Documenting Immigration

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

Author: Mary Ann Hoberman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606266840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Designed with budding readers in mind, each of these tales starring familiar nursery rhyme characters is set in three columns with color-coded type as a script for two voices to read separately and together. By the creators of You Read to Me,

Welcome Home, Bear

Author: Il Sung Na
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385753772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Follow Bear as he visits animal habitats around the world—and comes to appreciate his own home—in this new offering from the creator of A Book of Sleep and A Book of Babies. Bear is tired of waking up every morning in the same green forest, so he decides to search for a new place to live. He visits the birds in the trees, a mole underground, a camel in the hot desert sand, puffins in the cold arctic snow . . . only to realize his own home is the perfect place for him after all. Welcome Home, Bear offers rich illustrations, bright colors, and a simple, spare text—all wrapped up in a beautiful, kid-friendly package. Readers meet animals in their habitats around the world—and return with Bear to the one place he is truly happy.

Miss Rumphius

Author: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101654929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of two-time Caldecott winner Barbara Cooney's best-loved book, the illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Animals Building Homes

Author: Wendy Perkins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736851619
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Simple text explains the varied ways in which such animals as beavers, hummingbirds, termites, and bald eagles build their homes.

Some Pets

Author: Angela DiTerlizzi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481444026
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
"At the pet show, there are so many different types of pets. With dogs and cats, horses and chickens, hamsters and chinchillas--and many, many more--this book celebrates animal companions of all shapes and sizes"--