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Weather and Technology
Students discuss daily weather change, that we live in a world of symbols and innovations. They recognize the use of symbols to replace language and the value of technological innovation to improving our lives.
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Internet Field Trip: Simple Machines
Students observe and identify the types of simple machines. They conduct research and gather data to increase the comprehension of simple machines. Students identify and comprehend data to complete a graphic organizer and focus...
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The Life and Times of Tomie dePaola
First graders research information about the author Tomie dePaola. For this author studies lesson, 1st graders use the computer to find information about Tomie dePaola's life and writing accomplishments. Students create booklet about the...
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Eloquent Speech
Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...
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Let's Make Stew!
Students investigate how to create a vegetable garden and complete related activities. In this vegetable garden lesson, students receive agriculture notebooks to complete vocabulary for the gardening lesson. Students read 'Still-Life...
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Introduction to Greek Theatre
Students create a tableau for a Greek myth. In this introduction to Greek theatre lesson, students discuss the history of Greek theatre and tableau and complete a handout. Students work in groups to choose a myth and create a...
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Red Legs: A Drummer Boy of the Civil War
Pupils identify and interpret the life of a drummer boy during the Civil War as well as about a reenactment. Students listen to a fictionalized story or a Civil War reenactor and compare ot with the life of the drummer boy the story is...
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Post Office Stamps
Learners research and analyze how communication has changed over time. They chart communication developments on a timeline, and create commemorative stamps depicting forms of communication.
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Freckle Juice
Working in groups of four, the students will use the computer to draw an imaginary potion that will cure other children their age from physical traits (they can not control) including all ingredients and one text box.
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Grunt's Little War
High schoolers view a film about the role of the soldier during the Vietnam War. They discover what it was like to fight a war against a culture so unlike our own. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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Cloud Discovery
Students create a slideshow that pictorially depicts a variety of cloud types. They research clouds, develop and present the slideshow and then evaluate their efforts based on a rubric for self-evaluation.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Country Picture Book
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Country Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by G. Routledge
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by George Routledge (1884), a nonfiction book about domestic animals.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Delightful Colored Picture Book
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Delightful Colored Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A B C Picture Book
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of A B C Picture Book by Francis C. Woodworth, a nonfiction alphabet book for children.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Use Easy Nonfiction to Build Background Knowledge
A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...
Other
Children's Books About the Holocaust
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Pictures & Stories From Natural History by Mc Loughlin Bros.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Pictures & Stories from Natural History by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction, illustrated book about all types of animals including domestic, farm, wild, and...
Other
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
EL Education
El Education: Get a Clue
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...
Starfall
Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Darton's Picture Story Book
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Darton's Picture Story Book, a nonfiction book for children.