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Mon 19 Mar, 2007 08:59 pm
I need to develop science activities on three non-science books made of elementary students (I need to pull 3 activities from each book). I don't have kids and so I lack a good kid-book library to choose from. Can any of you think of and recommend a book for me to find at the library?
For example: a book about a seed growing to be a plant would lead to a seed starting activity. A book about storms could lead to the water cycle.
The book has to be a story/picture book, not a science book.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I also should try to find a book I can some how relate to plate tectonics/oceanography so I can incorporate it into my lesson plans later on.
books on
sea floor life near thermal vents
living in Iceland or the Hawaiian isles
experiences an earthquake or volcanic eruption
<shrug>
Island of the Blue Dolphins?
Green Eggs & Ham: Scientific method
Rain Makes Applesauce--may be out of print. Very popular 40 years ago
Ooh, I like this.
Can you be any more specific about age? "Elementary school" is a pretty wide swath. Does it not matter?
Spongebob might be a good segue to sealife.
I have brain overload right now (we have a zillion books and get about 25 a month from the library), a few more details and I'll start trying to focus.
I thought of a pretty good seed one:
June 29th, 1999 by David Wiesner
I love this book, maybe a unit on manatees, they're cool:
I'm a Manatee, by John Lithgow
OK, I'll wait for more details before I go crazy, lots of possibilities though.
The Magic Schoolbus series is tailor made for this sort of thing. I know we had one that covered sea floor life near thermal vents. I wonder if those would be considered science books?
Not a lot of details to give. I am doing a 5th grade lesson set on plate tectonics/oceanography - if I could find a suitable book for that, I'd be happy. The other grade levels don't much matter. I find it difficult to conceive of a picture book which is a story and which is suitable for 5th graders even if it does lead to age-level topics.
Thanks for the ideas, I'll look into those books.
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