{"id":1534,"date":"2009-08-31T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1534"},"modified":"2009-08-31T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:08:45","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-rare-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/08\/31\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-rare-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children&#8217;s Literature: Rare Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/08\/412gnv1h16l.jpg\" title=\"412gnv1h16l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/08\/412gnv1h16l.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"412gnv1h16l.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rare Treasure Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries<\/em> written and illustrated by Don Brown is a\u00a0brief biography of her life and a small window into the field of paleontology.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The story begins by letting the reader know that Mary was born in 1799 to a very poor family living in an English port town.\u00a0 Her father taught her and her brother\u00a0how to look for fossils at the nearby beach.\u00a0 A fascination that started as a hobby became her life&#8217;s work at the age of 20.\u00a0 Although she was able to sell the treasures she found, she remained quite poor.\u00a0 &#8220;In 1823, Mary discovered her first complete fossil of a plesiosaur&#8230;a nine-foot-long creature.&#8221;\u00a0 She went on to make many more important discoveries before she died in 1847, at the age of 48.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong>:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?EAN=9780618310814\" title=\"Rare Treasure Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries \"><em>Rare Treasure Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries<\/em> <\/a>could be used as an introduction into the science of paleontology.\u00a0 Students could learn about the simple tools used in her research (SOL 1.1b) and how and why their findings are arranged and classified (SOL 1.1c), utilizing measurement to the nearest centimeter (SOL 3.1e).\u00a0 Building on that, students could learn how two or more attributes are used to classify their findings (SOL 2.1c), then, how the data from those findings are gathered, charted and graphed (SOL 3.1g).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.smithsonianeducation.org\/images\/educators\/lesson_plan\/decoding_the_past\/DecodingThePast_lesson1.pdf\" title=\"Smithsonian Education\">&#8220;Smithsonian Education&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>offers a\u00a0lesson plan, activity, and worksheet to help students understand\u00a0how an\u00a0archaeologist does his\/her job, as well as how to make and record observations\u00a0in this field of study.\u00a0 This directly relates common practices between archaeologists and paleontologists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/school.discoveryeducation.com\/lessonplans\/programs\/tlc-dinosaurs\/index.html\" title=\"Discovery Education\">&#8220;Discovery Education&#8221;<\/a> offers a lesson plan, activities, and worksheets to help students understand the concept of scientific theory through the examination of information and artifacts related to dinosaurs, and how evidence helps to support a scientific theory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.alfmuseum.org\/dinos.htm\" title=\"Alf Museum\">interactive website\u00a0<\/a>allows students to independently utilize the computer to reinforce their understanding of paleontology through a simulated dig site,\u00a0general information, and videos of students working an actual dig site.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/08\/books1.jpg\" title=\"Rare Treasure, Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries<br \/>\n<strong>Author\/Illustrator:\u00a0 <\/strong>Don Brown<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:\u00a0<\/strong>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:\u00a0<\/strong> 2003<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:\u00a0 <\/strong>32<strong> <\/strong>pages<strong><br \/>\nGrade Range:\u00a0 K &#8211; 3<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ISBN: <\/strong>9780618310814<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Treasure Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries written and illustrated by Don Brown is a\u00a0brief biography of her life and a small window into the field of paleontology. The story begins by letting the reader know that Mary was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/08\/31\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-rare-treasure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,50,735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-book-review","category-process-skills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}