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Category Archives: book review
Teaching Life Science With Children’s Literature: Life-Size Killer Creatures
What is a killer? How do creatures locate and kill their prey? From ocean killers to mountain, forest, river, swamp, and night creature attacks, Life-Size Killer Creatures defines the animal food pyramid and how it is an important part for … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Processes with Children’s Literature: Growing Like Me
Introduction and Summary: Growing Like Me, written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Holly Keller, is a great resource to use when exploring life processes at the most basic level. The book begins by explaining, “Here in the meadow, by … Continue reading
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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: It’s Probably Penny
It’s Probably Penny written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy is a great book on predictions and probability. Lisa is assigned homework on probability. She has to think of an event that will definitely happen, that might happen and that cannot happen over the weekend. … Continue reading
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Teaching Physical Science with Children’s Literature: Check It Out! Forces and Motion
Check It Out! Forces and Motion is written by Clint Twist. It is a short book that introduces force and motion to students with great color photographs of people and animals. It explains direction, force, friction, motion, position, slopes, and … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Science with Children’s Literature: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? is written by Robin Page and illustrated by Steve Jenkins. The book shows students that different types of animals use their eyes, nose, ears, tails, mouths and feet in very different ways. … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Science with Children’s Literature: How Do Birds Find Their Way?
The migration of birds is something that has been studied for centuries and still is an amazing feat that we still don’t fully understand. How Do Birds Find Their Way,written by Roma Gans and illustrated by Paul Mirocha, is a … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Science With Children’s Literature: My First Book of Nature: How Living Things Grow
Introduction: My First Book of Nature: How Living Things Grow will help small children discover the many different paths living things take from birth to maturity. The book clearly presents the life cycles of a wide variety of plants and animals. More than … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Science With Children’s Literature: Pick, Pull, Snap!: Where Once a Flower Bloomed
There are many tiny city farms scattered across London where urban school children can experience farming up-close. The children can pet sheep, feed goats, see how fruits and vegetables are grown, and, if they are lucky, harvest some of the produce. If we … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Science with Children’s Literature: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, written and illustrated by Eric Carle, is easily one of the most beloved children’s books of all time. Its story is well-known by adults and kids alike, but the great thing about the text is that … Continue reading
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Teaching Life Science with Children’s Literature: Oodles of Animals
Introduction/ Summary: The book, Oodles of Animals, written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert, is a helpful resource for young students learning about different animals and different animal characteristics. The book consists of short, rhyming poems that study many traits and features … Continue reading
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