educational aspects

Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the Sound Museum, where they learn the principles of sound with the help of a ghost and her great-granddaughter.

A guide to using picture books to help students in grades three through five master language arts skills that includes lists of appropriate titles, reproducible worksheets, writing activities, reading-based activities, and more.

Contains sixty lesson plans that utilize picture books, and includes a brief overview of the plot, setting, and characters, questions for individual thought and class discussion, and projects to extend the story and incorporate personal meaning.

Explains how picture books can be used to teach children basic reading, listening, writing, and thinking skills, and includes study guides based on select picture books with easy-to-follow model lessons and sample student worksheets.

Contains more than thirty ready-to-use lesson plans for primary school teachers that connect picture books to the national language arts standards of the NCTE and IRA.

Describes how to use picture books to teach writing for children in kindergarten to grade two focusing on writing ideas, organization, voice, and word choice. Also discusses how to develop world fluency for primary students, how to strengthen conventions, and how to highlight a presentation.

Explores forces and machines through a variety of experiments and hands-on activities.

Presents over twenty experiments exploring energy transformations and how they affect the everyday world.