education, elementary

Presents lesson plans, teacher's guide, and worksheets designed for a two week course that uses literature to teach about children around the world, and includes activities in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and art, and covers children from Canada, Russia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Great Britain, and more.

Contains resources for fifth grade teachers, including tips on classroom management, bulletin board ideas, and activities across the curriculum.

Contains lessons, strategies, and activities that may be used to teach science concepts in elementary classrooms, each with a related list of literature selections, as well experiments and projects that integrate skills from other areas of the curriculum.

Provides ideas and instructions for wellness activities teachers may use to supplement physical education programs for students in kindergarten through sixth grade, each of which takes between five and ten minutes.

Along with Frankie and his friends, kids take field trips to the beach and zoo, read 50 illustrated stories from 8 interactive books and discover 19 activities, which teach geography, science, early math, reading comprehension and music.

Provides tools for teaching five Gary Paulsen novels--"Hatchet," "Dogsong," "Woodsong," "The River," and "Brian's Winter"--in grades five and up, including writing prompts, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary activities, individual and group projects, and graphic organizers.