Animal Diversity Web University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/img/montage.jpg

Information, pictures, specimens, and sounds.

Ages 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

10 Reasons Why Children Need a Garden

Thanks, Loreen, for a great blog! Link to see her book recommendations.

10 Reasons Why Kids Need a Garden

• It’s fun to grow your own food whether it’s just one pot of herbs or a multi-rowed mini-farm.
• Homegrown crops taste great!
• Kids are more likely to eat previously rejected goodies they grow themselves.
• Fresh picked fruits and veggies have more nutrients than produce that’s been sitting around.
• A much greater variety of cultivars can be grown that won’t be found in grocery stores.
• Chemicals can be minimized or avoided.
• Gardening saves money. A few dollars worth of seeds can yield a harvest worth much more.
• Gardens save energy. Many food products must be shipped hundreds or thousands of miles to the grocery store.
• Growing your own food is empowering, teaches valuable skills, and encourages self-sufficiency.
• It’s Spring!

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April Calendar Events from SurfNetKids

Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday
Apr 15, 1452
http://www.surfnetkids.com/leonardo.htm

Titanic Disaster
Apr 15, 1912
http://www.surfnetkids.com/titanic.htm

Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
Apr 18, 1775
http://www.surfnetkids.com/paul_revere.htm

San Francisco Earthquake
Apr 18, 1906
http://www.surfnetkids.com/earthquakes.htm

National Park Week
Apr 18-26, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/national_parks.htm

Revolutionary War Begins with Shot Heard 'Round the World
Apr 19, 1775
http://www.surfnetkids.com/american_revolution.htm

National Volunteer Week
Apr 19-25, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/volunteer.htm

National Playground Safety Week
Apr 20-26, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/outdoor_games.htm

Holocaust Day
Apr 21, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/related.php?t=Holocaust+Remembrance+Day

John Muir's Birthday
Apr 21, 1838
http://www.surfnetkids.com/national_parks.htm

Lyrids Meteor Shower
Apr 21-22, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/meteor_showers.htm

Earth Day
Apr 22, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/earth_day.htm

Ecology Games for Earth Day
Apr 22, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/ecology.htm

Endangered Species for Earth Day
Apr 22, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/endangered.htm

Shakespeare's Birthday
Apr 23, 1564
http://www.surfnetkids.com/william_shakespeare.htm

Arbor Day
Apr 24, 2009
http://www.surfnetkids.com/trees.htm

MOONSHOT: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca

MOONSHOT: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca

Gr. K-4 Ages 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 44 pages Atheneum, 2009

In the end, what started out as a fierce race between the two fiercest enemy nations on Earth—the U.S. and the Soviets—became a ride with three guys locked in two containers they’d nicknamed Charlie Brown and Snoopy with most of the world watching from 238,00 miles awa.—Apollo 11.

With all the technology and politics involved in the first moon landing, the simple beauty of the event is easily overlooked. And since the astronauts were equipped with the most advanced camera technology in the world, what could an illustrator’s pen and brush bring to the story that hadn’t already been captured “for real” by their cameras? In celebration of that historic event’s 40th anniversary, artist-writer Brian Floca brings his considerable talents to the roundtrip ride and gives us a beautiful bird’s eye view from both outside and inside.

As the image top-right shows, he sometimes gives us a simultaneous view, from the spectators on the beach at Cape Canaveral to inside the space capsule with the astronauts as the blastoff-countdown progresses. His text is not only uncomplicated, but poetically informative. Take, for example, his description of the crew’s first taste of weightlessness (image right, bottom):

Onboard Columbia and Eagle, Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin unclick gloves, unclick helmets, unclick the straps that hold them down, and float inside their small ships, their home for a week. Here there is no up or down; an astronaut can spin in air and turn a floor into a wall or a ceiling to a floor . . .

. . . There are food and clothes packed into corners. There are flight plans, flashlights, pens, and cameras—and they float too. They drift from hands and pockets. That’s why there’s Velcro everywhere: for holding things so they stay put.

All the facts a young child would wish to know about this trip are here, never crammed, but floating beside the illustrations. And in those pieces of art, Floca demonstrates what great art can offer that cameras cannot: every camera must have a lens and each lens has its edges and limits beyond which it cannot focus. What the artist has instead of a lens is an imagination that is limitless. When Armstrong and Aldrin walked the surface of the moon with Collins looking on from above in the orbiting Columbia, there was no camera to give us the perspective of both the men, their landing craft, the moon, and mother Earth. Floca gives us exactly that. Artist over technology.

For those who want more, Floca’s endnotes and sources will take you there.

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Jim Trelease Read Aloud Handouts about Reading

"Do you have a free handout about reading
that we can give parents at our school?"

o many teachers and administrators asked Jim Trelease that question, one of his first retirement projects was to create a series of such free handouts. Based on his books, lectures, and films, the tri-fold double-sided brochures are aimed at parents, teachers, librarians—even future teachers and parents.

Written in an uncomplicated, to-the-point style, along with some of the charts and statistics Jim has used in his books and lectures, the brochures are free for downloading and may be easily duplicated by nonprofit institutions dealing with parents and community members.

The subject matter includes:

• Why reading is the most important subject in school;
• How a child becomes competent in reading;
• The importance of a child reading outside school;
• Why it's essential for parents to read aloud to children;
• Listening levels versus reading levels;
• How the mere presence of print in the home influences a child's reading skills;
• The negative impact of over-viewing of TV and video games;
• How TV's "closed-captioning" can help a child's reading;
• The positive effects of recorded books.
• The things to be sure to do when reading to children and the things to avoid;
• Why is it that some people read a lot and some (even very educated people) read very little?

How do we obtain the brochures?

First, email Jim Trelease (Jim Trelease) and seek permission to print the brochures, including in your correspondence the name and address of the requesting organization, its nonprofit status, and how it will be used. Jim's email response to you (usually within 48 hours) will allay any fears your printer may have about reprinting a copyrighted item. Then control/option-click on the name of the brochure below and the brochure's PDF file will be downloaded to your computer. Each is a megabyte in size and may take a minute to download. Burn it to a disc (or email it) for your printing facility. The item should be printed to both sides of a single sheet. It's easier than pie, if you've ever tried to bake a pie—a lot easier!

• Ten Facts Parents Should Know About Reading
• Why Read Aloud to Children?
• Thirty DO's to Remember When Reading Aloud
• A Dozen DON'Ts to Remember When Reading Aloud
• Why Some Read a Lot and Some Read Very Little (perfect for faculty/parent discussion)
• The Connection Between TV & School Scores
  
• Ages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
  

Naming Liberty Ages 7-12

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Naming Liberty

by Jane Yolen; illustrated by Jim Burke Gr. 2 -5 Ages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 30 pages Philomel, 2008

In facing single pages, award-winning author Jane Yolen tells two parallel stories: one portrays a Jewish family in the Ukraine in the 1800s and the other pictures a young French sculptor named Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. The converging tales add up to an excellent portrait of both the American immigrant experience and the American dream.

Bartholdi's dream was to produce a gigantic statue in the mouth of New York harbor that would welcome the dreamers arriving from other countries and beginning anew in a land called America. Those dreamers are personified in the book by the author's ancestral family (the Yolens) whose hopes and fears are presented in the first person by Gitl, the young girl relating the trials and insecurities of transplanting a family from one side of the world to the other.

Just as insecure was the sculptor's dream as he lobbied American an French politicians and businesses to secure permission to erect the statue and raise the funds for it. Along the way, the name of the statue -- Liberty Enlightening the World -- was shortened to simply the Statue of Liberty. The young Gitl, in turn, would wrestle with a similar name challenge: should she keep her Ukrainian name or adopt an American one like "Libby" -- short for Liberty.

Along with being a portrait of the immigrant family (yesterday and today), the book is brimming with fascinating historical tidbits: the same man who designed the Eiffel Tower also designed the interior staircase of Liberty; the model for Liberty's face was the sculptor's mother and took one year to construct; after being constructed in France, it was carefully deconstructed and packed into 214 crates and loaded aboard 70 train cars for the trip to the harbor; the only "local" part of the Liberty package was the pedestal, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, an American.

HEY! LISTEN TO THIS Stories to Read Aloud

By Jim Trelease

Published by Penguin Books, 1992

ISBN 0140146539, 9780140146530

414 pages Ages 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Jim Trelease's "New Read-Aloud Handbook" led millions of people to discover the special experience of reading aloud to children. In "Hey! Listen to This, " Trelease brings together forty-eight read-aloud stories that parents and teachers can share with children ages five through nine. His choices range from folktales "( Uncle Remus, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and the Indian Cinderella )" to classic favorites by such wonderful children's authors as Roald Dahl "( James and the Giant Peach ), " E.B. White "( Charlotte's Web), " Beverly Cleary "( Ramona the Pest ), " C.S. Lewis "( The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), " and L.Frank Baum "(Ozma of Oz )." In addition, Trelease has written a special introduction to each story and makes suggestions for further reading.

HEY! LISTEN TO THIS

• • CONTENTS • •

TELL ME A STORY

• "The Gunniwolf" retold by Wilhelmina Harper
• "Little Green Riding Hood" by Gianni Rodari
• Wolf Story by William McCleery (novel chapter)

TALES FROM LONG AGO

• "Noah's Friends" by Marc Gellman, from Does God Have a Big Toe?
• "The Tortoise and the Hare" retold from Aesop

SCHOOL DAYS

• "Joe" by Louis Sachar, from Sideways Stories from Wayside School (novel chapter)
• "Ramona's Great Day" by Beverly Cleary, from Ramona the Pest (novel chapter)
• "A Room Without Windows or Doors" by Edith Fisher Hunter, from Child of the Silent Night (novel chapter)
• "Cheating" by Susan Shreve, from Family Secrets

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

• "Bavsi's Feast" by Adele Geras
• "Meet Henry Green" and "A Strange Feeling" by Robert Kimmel Smith, from Chocolate Fever (novel chapter)
• "The Doughnuts" by Robert McCloskey, from Homer Price (novel chapter)

FAMILIES

• "Alexander," by June Epstein
• "Captain Cook," by Richard and Florence Atwater, from Mr. Popper's Penguins (novel chapter)
• "The Pudding Like A Night on the Sea" by Ann Cameron, from The Stories Julian Tells
• "The Fish Angel" by Myron Levoy, from The Witch of Fourth Street and Other Stories
• "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander
• "Greyling" by Jane Yolen

FOLK AND FAIRY TALES

• "Unanana and the Elephant" retold by Kathleen Arnott
• "Brer Rabbit Gets Even" retold by Julius Lester, from The Tales of Uncle Remus
• "The Indian Cinderella" retold by Cyrus Macmillan
• "Ah Mee's Invention" retold by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, from Shen of the Sea
• "The Emperor's New Clothes" retold from Hans Christian Andersen
• "The Search for the Magic Lake" by Genevieve Barlow
• "The Magic Thread" author unknown

ANIMAL TALES

• "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
• "Before Breakfast" by E. B. White, from Charlotte's Web (novel chapter)
• Bambi by Felix Salten (novel chapter)
• "My Early Home" and "The Hunt" by Anna Sewell, from Black Beauty (novel chapter)
• "Not for Sale" and "I Never Want Another Dog" by Eric Knight, from Lassie Come-Home(novel chapter)
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, (novel chapter)
• Gentle Ben by Walt Morey (novel chapter)

GIGANTIC CREATURES

• "The Story of Giant Kippernose" by John Cunliffe
• "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
• "The Moon's Revenge" by Joan Aiken

FANTASY LANDS

• "The Girl in the Chicken Coop" by L. Frank Baum, from Ozma of Oz (novel chapter)
• "Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis, from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (novel chapter)
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (novel chapters)

CHILDREN OF COURAGE

• "The Boy Who Stopped the Sea" retold by Louis Untermeyer, from The World's Great Stories
• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (novel chapter)
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (novel chapter)
• "I'm going to Get Me Some Big Words" and "A Dream Begins to Grow" by Margaret Davidson, from I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

ORPHANS OF THE STORM

• Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel chapter)
• "The Story of Holly and Ivy" by Rumer Godden
• "Aunt Harriet Has a Cough" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, from Understood Betsy (novel chapter)
  

CLASSIC TALES

• "The Golden Touch" retold from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book
• "The Pied Piper" retold from Joseph Jacobs and Andrew Lang, with poetry excerpts from Robert Browning
• "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" retold from Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book

Read All about It!: Great Read-aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens

Read All about It!: Great Read-aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens

By Jim Trelease

Contributor Jim Trelease

Edition: illustrated

Published by Penguin Books, 1993

ISBN 0140146555, 9780140146554

489 pages

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" to "Maniac Magee," sci-fi to op-ed, "Casey at the Bat" to a moving true story about the reunion of two Hololcaust survivors, this wonderfully diverse collection of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, and books has been created by Jim Trelease especially to turn young people on to the many pleasures of reading. Here are thought-provoking columns from Mike Royko and Pete Hamill; excerpts from classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Rikki-tikki-tavi"; autobiographical sketches by Maya Angelou, Moss Hart, and others, highlighting the imoportance of reading in their lives; and much more. With selections representing many different cultures, genres, writing styles, and interests, "Read All About It!" is a wonderful introduction to the riches of literature and to a lifetime of reading.

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out Ages 8+

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. 108 contributors-- authors (from Katherine Paterson to Kate DiCamillo to Jon Scieszka), illustrators (from Leo and Diane Dillon to Peter Sis to Brian Selznick), and famous folks (from Charles Dickens and Walt Whitman to Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney). At 242 well-designed pages, this anthology is a tribute to American history, a multi-faceted jewel for family sharing and endless uses in the classroom (to be developed on its companion website ). A few poems and short stories and plays sprinkle the mix, but mostly this is a nonfiction account of history as it affected our White House—the emphasis on our—and a call to learn more about being an American citizen (Candlewick, ages 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 ). FROM:

Lady Liberty: A Biography Ages 5-8

...and more or less in tune with 4th of July partying.

Pickers of nits may have a tricky time classifying the gorgeous new picture book about our emblem of freedom-- Lady Liberty: A Biography. What is noted author Doreen Rappaport doing with these free-verse poems, in the various voices of all who had a hand in creating the Statue of Liberty? The first poem is autobiographical, describing her Latvian grandfather seeing the statue for the first time. Then, from French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi to others famous and not so famous, the voices tell a true story-- how the statue was conceived and built and what it’s meant to immigrants ever since. Here is the voice of poet Emma Lazarus: “Soon when people arrive in the New World,/they will be welcomed/by a caring, powerful woman,” Rappaport writes, segueing into Lazarus’s own invocation: “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” Besides being inspirational, the poems are obviously the fruit of mountains of research, and meanwhile Rappaport has collected every possible fact you could want to know into the back matter. Somber paintings by Matt Tavares swoop from unusual angles to heighten the drama. The format is large and inviting, with a “ta-da” fold-up page unveiling the completed Lady in all her magnificence. This is history, biography, and a tribute evoking genuine emotion-- all at the same time. I would call it seriously creative nonfiction (Candlewick, ages 5, 6, 7, 8). FROM:

The Way We Work: Human Body - Ages 10+

It’s surely the nonfiction event of the year—David Macaulay’s The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body. No wonder he won a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, which in part allowed him to complete this 336-page event, I mean book. Really, all you can say is “wow”—at the structural magnificence that is the human body and at Macaulay’s dramatic, clear drawings conveying every detail. Like a 21st-century Leonardo da Vinci, though presumably without the real corpses, he gets inside us and dissects like mad, and not for his own edification (like Leo), but ours. This tome has tremendous amounts of info, boiled down to its essence, and obviously thoroughly vetted by experts. Kids who persist with the somewhat textbook-y text, co-written with Richard Walker, will learn how we pick up an apple, breathe, think, blink, digest, reproduce, and everything else the body does. To me the most interesting of the seven chapters was “Battle Stations,” about the way we try to fight off flu and other threats. I would think this book would be of special interest to kids who have had anything go wrong with their bodies, but it's also a gift for budding biologists, and anyone who likes to browse (Walter Lorraine/Houghton Mifflin, ages 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18). FROM:

10 Unique Resource Sites for Educators

T E C H N O L O G Y A R T I C L E Click Here

Ten Unique Resource Sites for Educators

Those of us who spend a great deal of time online often stumble across valuable Web sites that contain unique resources we think many educators would like to know about. The list below represents nine of those sites; online resources guaranteed to save you time and effort as you search for new ways to integrate technology into your curriculum. Included: Nine Web sites that provide a gold mine of useful education resources.

According to the Web Characterization Project, a study done by the Online Computer Library Center, the World Wide Web contained more than 9 million unique Web sites in 2002 -- representing a 231 percent increase in the number of Web sites since 1998.

Real Time Data Sites
The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). This Web site offers links to real time data in a number of science related categories, including weather and meteorology, space and astronomy, the environment, earth science, animals, oceanography, and world time zones. The sites, which provide information from satellites, Web cams, laboratory experiments, and recently updated reports and surveys, also includes a section on Internet projects that use real time data.

4 2 eXplore
The philosophy of this site is "When you're learning about something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore." The site's title is somewhat deceptive, however; way more than the four promised resources are provided for each listed topic! The site, provided by eduScapes, introduces a new topic each week. The current eclectic list of more than 200 topics.

Digital Saskatchewan
This is a small site with limited resources -- most of them related to Saskatchewan -- but the idea has so much potential that I had to include it. The site provides "free images, movies, and sounds from Saskatchewan and around the world." All the media resources provided may be used in lessons, projects, reports, and so on, by educators and students free of charge as long as the resources are properly credited. Although most of the 3,732 resources currently available

Online Newspapers.com
Expand your students' perspectives and perceptions by exposing them to some of the thousands of online newspapers listed at this site! Short of a world tour, there's no better way to introduce your students to the culture, politics, climate, and life style of their neighbors -- both near and far.

Hotlist of K-12 School Sites
Educational CyberPlayGround provides this hotlist of K-12 school Web sites from across the United States. Simply click a state on the U.S. map to find a list of elementary, middle, and secondary schools with an online presence. Click a school's name to go immediately to its Web site.

Library in the Sky
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory provides this database of more than 1,600 useful educational Web sites. Sites are categorized into 14 Departments, including Arts and Music, Early Childhood, Foreign Language, Math, Science, and Vocational, and 12 Materials, including Educational Games, Lesson Plans, Professional Development, and Tutorials. Each Department is further divided into subjects. The Web sites listed include resources for both teachers and students. Some are well known to educators; many, such as 1001 Periodic Table Quiz Questions and Arctica are tiny educational gems you might not come across anywhere else. This is definitely a library that demands browsing!

GEC Computers in the Classroom
The WebQuest locator, for example is worth its weight in gold, no matter where, what, or who you teach. This extensive list of WebQuests can be accessed by division (primary, junior, intermediate, or senior), by subject, or by curriculum area. Best of all, the links to all 730 WebQuests in the database have been recently verified!

My favorite site feature, however, is the monthly Computers in the Classroom Newsletter, which is e-mailed to subscribers free of charge. The lengthy newsletter, written in friendly, easy-to-read language, contains lots of worthwhile information for teachers interested in incorporating technology into their classrooms, including tips on using a variety of technology tools, suggestions for creative lessons and activities, and links to terrific Web site discoveries. All past issues are archived on the site.

Numbers from 1-10 in more than 4,500 languages
OK, you can count to 10 in English, Spanish, French, and German. But can you count to 10 in Bijago, Chinook, Aleut, Middle English, or Russian? This site, which includes the numerals from 1 to 10 in at least 4,000 languages I've never even heard of, is sure to stimulate your students' interest in geography or history and to provide a fun activity to extend almost any social studies activity. Unfortunately, the site provides little pronunciation guidance -- but then, who will know the difference?

UT Library Online
This extensive list of links to maps and map sites is the answer to a social studies teacher's prayer. The site, maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, contains links to general map sites, as well as to sites containing country maps, state maps, city maps, weather maps, historical maps, and outline maps.

In addition, the site's Cartographic Reference Resources section provides links to gazetteers, distance calculators, time zone guides, sun and moon rise/set calculators, tide predictors, map projections, map scale calculators, and glossaries and map guides. If you can't find the map you want here, chances are you won't find it anywhere!

Way Back Machine
Surf the more than 10 billion pages stored in its Web archive. And it really works! Remember those dead links at the real time data site above? Enter the URL of the one you were hoping to find into this site's search engine, click Take Me Back, and watch the Way Back Machine find it for you. Even if the search is unsuccessful, this archive locator will promise to find the lost site on its next crawl through cyberspace!

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Copyright © 2003 Education World

Originally Posted 01/08/2003
Links Updated 01/05/2004

B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

"B.J. Pinchbeck's site is hard to resist" -- New York Times

BJ Pinchbeck - Age 22
Senior at Drexel University

Film and Video Production Major

• "... no site comes out on top more often than B.J. Pinchbeck
• ...B.J.'s links have dead-on accuracy..." -- Consumer Search.com
• "Move over, Bill Gates and Steve Case, here comes B.J. Pinchbeck." -- Newsweek Magazine
• "B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper has grown into one of the most comprehensive research sites maintained by a kid..." -- Family PC Magazine
• "...a wonderful guide to encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference works, and other resources on a great variety of subjects..." -- Parents Guide to the Internet, U.S. Department of Education
• "His popular English hub site caters to an audience far beyond his years." -- Yahoo Internet Life
• "This site is the best homework helper ever." -- U.S. Kids Magazine
• "Someone has done a lot of research and linked together some great Web sites." -- The Teaching Home Magazine
• "...B.J. Pinchbeck and his dad have amassed one of the Web's best known and comprehensive sites." -- Web Guide Magazine

ART WEBSITES LINKS

The Arts

• The Artist's Toolkit

This site has information on
Visual Elements and Principles
Videos of Artists in Action
Encyclopedias of Examples of the
Velsual Elements and Principles

• Getty Museum

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Smithsonian Museum

• Tate Museum

• WebMuseum, Paris

SOURCED FROM THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY

Suitable for HOMEWORK or EXPLORATION

Chocolate: Riches

Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest By Robert Burleigh Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2002 Grades 4-7

A mouthwatering look at the history of chocolate, this volume is the juvenile companion to the Chicago Field Museum exhibit on chocolate's importance to mankind. It details the use of chocolate, first by the Aztec and Mayan Indians, through its discovery by the conquering Spaniards and finally the mass-produced forms we enjoy in today's modern world. Wonderful photos and creative use of graphics and layout make this book appealing to the eyes and mouth as well as the brain. The Chocolate Exhibit will travel to Houston's Museum of Natural Science from February 14-May 9, 2004. About the Author Robert Burleigh is the award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry books for children. His work is often praised for its artistic merit and design. Burleigh won the Orbis Pictus Award for his 1992 picture book, Flight: the Journey of Charles Lindbergh. Other books he has written include Goal, Hoops, Home Run: the Story of Babe Ruth, and Into the Air: The Story of the Wright Brothers and the First Flight. He is the father of three children and lives with his wife in Chicago, Illinois. Activities Graph the number of each M&M color in a bag of the candy. Estimate the number of wrapped chocolate candy in a jar. Write an acrostic poem using CHOCOLATE. More, more, more... Burford, Betty. Chocolate by Hershey: a Story about Milton S. Hershey. Carolroda Books, 1994. Catling, Patrick Skene. Chocolate Touch. Laureleaf, 1994. Pellaton, Karen. The Official M&M's Brand History of Chocolate. Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001. Smith, Robert Kimmel. Chocolate Fever. Yearling Books, 1978. Woods, Samuel G. Chocolate: from Start to Finish. Blackbirch Press, 1999. Websites Chicago Field Museum Chocolate Activity Ideas Sticky Sweet: Chocolate Thematic Unit Rainforest Information

Kids' Catalog Web
http://martsubhub.lib.wv.us:8000/kcweb/kcHome

Great c o l o r s and a Robot appears while you wait for a search!

This is a bountiful resource for research,
pre-school through young adult.

At the HOME page, choose from
EXPLORE, TYPE SEARCH, BEST STORIES,
ABC FIND IT!, OR EVENTS

EXPLORE has 18 subjects for amusement or homework,
or more serious research, like Kid's Problems.
Here are 24 topics. Under Feelings is a list of 57 books,
and 75 WebPages to explore, sorted by topic.

TYPE SEARCH has a search window and
AUTHOR, TITLE, and SUBJECT BUTTONS.

BEST STORIES has Awards - 18 types,
from ALA Notable Books to Young Reader's Choice.
Picture Books - 24 Types
Beginning Readers (Gr 1-3) - Starting to Read, Reading Lots,
Reading More, and True Stories
Chapter Books (Gr 4-6) - 20 Topics
Young Adult - 27 Topics

ABC FIND IT! has Alphabetical Tiles
in each of 4 choices: Subjects, Authors,
Series, and Famous People.
If nothing is available, you are directed to a Librarian
or offered a Web Pages Button

EVENTS was empty today.

This page is linked to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County (WV) Public Library.

Chocolate
Riches from the Rainforest
by Robert Burleigh
Illustrations: The Field Museum, Chicago

Summary: Traces the history of chocolate
from a drink of the Olmec and Maya
and later in Europe to its popularity around the world today.

Published 2002
Wake County Public Library
J641.3 BURL

WRITE POETRY IN CYBERSPACE!

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

Try the acrostic poetry tutor and interactive at ReadWriteThink,
sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.

This bouncy, pleasantly popping student stimulator asks,
answers, and gives an example (SUN) of what an acrostic poem is.

(You may turn off the sound by clicking the SPEAKER icon.)

It's a great starting point for writing first poems.

Try a NAME poem or a one- or two-word TOPIC poem.
Mine was Washington, D.C. Use up to 15 character spaces.

Enter your name in up to 15 character spaces.

Brainstorm a list of MY WORDS or phrases to use in your poem.
Each of the eight (8) lines will hold 20 characters,
but shows only 16 characters, when this list reappears later.
Here, too, is the option to EXIT,
which remains an option through the next steps.

Seven (7) lines then appear with each letter of your
NAME or TOPIC arranged vertically and capitalized.
UP and DOWN ARROWS allow access to other letters in longer words.

Up to seven (7) HINT words appear for each letter, as you point to it.
These are mostly conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs and verbs,
which may be helpful.
"X" suggests that you should "Be Creative!"
and gives three (3) "ex-" words.

The MY WORDS list remains visible.

When you complete the poem, it appears in PRINTABLE form with
"Acrostic Poems," your TITLE and NAME, and completed poem below.

A ZOOM feature and BACK button for changes are here.
Choose to PRINT before you write a NEW POEM.
Nothing is saved here.

You may revise and move BACK or CONTINUE indefinitely,
until you PRINT or choose NEW POEM.

Happy Writing!

100 HELPFUL WEB TOOLS
FOR EVERY KIND OF LEARNER

VISUAL LEARNERS

Mind Mapping, Charting and Diagrams,
Videos and Photos

AUDITORY LEARNERS

Podcasts, Presentation Tools.
Audio Tools, Text Readers
Audio Books

KINESTHETIC LEARNERS

Note-Taking Tools, Bookmarking,
Interaction, Collaboration


http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/
100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/

ELEMENTS OF POETRY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FLASHCARDS

FLASH CARDS OF 24 TERMS

click below

Elements of Poetry- Figurative Language