Teacher Resource Materials for Using Children's Literature: Science

1. Habitats and ecosystems
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): 2 - 5 Cost: $36.90 - $179.00 ENC#: 009527
   The materials in this kit, designed for students in grades 2 to 5 and part of the RANGER RICK SCIENCE SPECTACULAR series, describe five major ecosystems of the world and the amazing ways that plants and animals survive in them. The kit, developed in cooperation with the National Wildlife Federation, includes big books and student books containing color photographs and text that cover the five ecosystems and the teaching guides that go with each book.
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2. Systems
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): Pre-K - 2 Cost: $49.95 - $245.00 ENC#: 009528
   The materials in this kit, designed for students in grades preK to 2 and part of the NEWBRIDGE EARLY SCIENCE PROGRAM, describe the systems of the human body to the ecosystems of a pond, allowing children to discover the ways parts of a whole work together. The kit includes big books and student books with photographs and simple to understand text that cover each of five topics, discussion cards, and teaching guides that go with each book.
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3. Tide pools and coral reefs
   Date: 1993 Grade(s): 2 - 4 Cost: $9.95 - $278.60 ENC#: 007276
   This series, designed by teachers for grade 2 to 4, consists of whole language thematic units with integrated hands-on activities involving children in reading, writing, listening, observing, practicing poetry, acting, and doing. Each book in the series includes summaries of two children's books with related lesson plans and related activities; across the curriculum activities in language arts (including daily writing suggestions), math, science, social studies, art, music, and life skills (physical education, cooking, and others); suggestions and patterns for bulletin boards and unit management plans; group projects to foster cooperative learning; a culminating activity which requires students to synthesize their learning; and a bibliography.
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4. Early childhood units for science
   Date: 1993 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: $9.95 - $127.50 ENC#: 007286
   This reproducible activity book, designed for grades preK to 1, focuses on a whole language approach to learning science. The book is designed to assist children in their learning about their world aided by literature and original poetry.
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5. Connecting science & literature
   Date: 1991 Grade(s): 2 - 4 Cost: $12.95 - $103.60 ENC#: 007670
   This reproducible activity book, developed by teachers for grades 2 to 4, is part of a series that integrates childrens literature with science, mathematics, and other topics. This book provides strategies and activities for integrating early elementary science curriculum with more than 40 related childrens literature selections.
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6. Inventions
   Date: 1993 Grade(s): 4 - 6 Cost: $9.95 - $228.85 ENC#: 007711
   This series, designed by teachers for grades 4 to 6, consists of whole language thematic units with integrated hands-on activities involving children in reading, writing, listening, observing, practicing poetry, acting, and doing. Each book in the series includes summaries of two to four children's books with related lesson plans and related activities; across the curriculum activities in language arts (including daily writing suggestions), math, science, social studies, art, music, and life skills (physical education, cooking, and others); suggestions and patterns for bulletin boards and unit management plans; group projects to foster cooperative learning; a culminating activity which requires students to synthesize their learning; and a bibliography.
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7. Story stretchers: activities to expand children's favorite books
   Date: 1989 Grade(s): Pre-K - K Cost: $19.95 ENC#: 008547
   This book, written for grades preK and K, contains 450 teaching ideas that are based upon research in language development and emerging literacy to help young children become good readers. The book connects 90 well known childrens books to learning centers in nature, science, mathematics, art, music, movement, cooking, and circle time.
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8. The Sierra Club book of weatherwisdom
   Date: 1995 Grade(s): 4 - 6 Cost: $15.95 ENC#: 007703
   This book, published by the Sierra Club for grades 4 to 6, shows young readers how to predict the weather by paying close attention to weather signs, such as wind, clouds, and animals' behavior. The author uses dramatic stories, pencil illustrations, and hands-on activities, as well as conversational informative text, to explain how the earth's rotation and its orbit around the sun are linked to the seasons and climate; how atmospheric pressure is measured and what it can tell us; and how storms develop.
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9. Keepers of life: discovering plants through Native American stories and Earth activities for children
   Date: 1994 Grade(s): K - 9 Cost: $9.95 ENC#: 008194
   This book and accompanying teachers guide, written for grades K to 9, is the third in the KEEPERS OF LIFE SERIES, which is based on Native American life and contains the two earlier titles KEEPERS OF THE EARTH and KEEPERS OF THE ANIMALS. This book encourages students to be field botanists as well as ecologists.
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10. Water lab: teacher's guide
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 4 - 6 Cost: $22.99 ENC#: 004645
    This series of books is part of a science and reading motivation program designed to supplement existing science curricula for the upper elementary grades and to integrate science and technology with reading through a series of laboratory investigations. Each laboratory explores topics in the natural and physical sciences, and also focuses on a genre of childrens literature.
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11. Cultivating a child's imagination through gardening
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: $24.00 ENC#: 008702
    This book, written for grades K to 6, is organized around a theme of gardening and uses childrens literature to introduce students to multicultural literature, ecology, and the impact of plants on the environment, world economics, and politics. The book contains 45 lesson plans, each of which focuses on a specific book about gardening and offers a variety of activities designed to enhance creativity and build literacy skills.
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12. Exploring the world of animals: linking fiction to nonfiction
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 5 Cost: $24.50 ENC#: 008975
    This book, part of the LITERATURE BRIDGES TO SCIENCE series, is designed for students in grades K to 5 and focuses on animals as pets, on the farm, in the woods, and in the wild. The series uses several fictional works to introduce a science topic to students, letting the power of the story create a desire to learn more about the subject.
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13. Raccoons and ripe corn
    Date: 1991 Grade(s): Pre-K - 3 Cost: $29.95 - $699.00 ENC#: 006436
    This videotape, developed for grades 1 to 4, is part of the SCIENCE COMES ALIVE series by READING RAINBOW. READING RAINBOW is an educational series designed to encourage and motivate young children to read good books and visit their local libraries.
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14. Bugs
    Date: 1991 Grade(s): K - 2 Cost: $250.00 - $1500.00 ENC#: 003011
    The Scholastic BANNERS program focuses on personal, social, and natural world themes that are appropriate to grades K to 2. Students are encouraged to explore each theme through literature (classic and contemporary), music, poems, fingerplay, and integrated science, math, creative arts, social studies, geography, and language arts activities.
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15. Deep blue sea
    Date: 1993 Grade(s): 3 - 5 Cost: $275.00 - $1100.00 ENC#: 003014
    This part of the Scholastic BANNERS program, developed for grades 3 to 5, focuses on students as thinkers and researchers capable of formulating and answering questions, engages them in themes relevant to their lives, and exposes them to varied literature. In addition to activities in social studies, language arts, science, and math, students explore the humanities including music, art, creative arts, and movement.
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16. Once upon a GEMS guide: connecting young peoples literature to Great Explorations in Math and Science
    Date: 1994 Grade(s): Pre-K - 10 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 004805
    This handbook is part of Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS), a series of thematic units for grades preK to 10 that help students master mathematics and science content and process skills. This book, one of a series for educators, is a resource that indexes literature selections and is organized three different ways: by specific GEMS guides (i.e., individual teacher's guides), by mathematics strands, or by science themes found throughout the series.
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17. Science, Math, Integrated Language Experiences (S.M.I.L.E.)
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: Free ENC#: 009696
    This program, designed for students in grades K to 6, is an integrated curriculum for teaching science and mathematics along with literature and other subjects such as geography and art. The book consists of 12 modules covering topics such as flight, color, and insects.
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