{"id":1649,"date":"2009-09-07T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1649"},"modified":"2009-09-07T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T05:28:09","slug":"teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-busy-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/07\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-busy-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Physical Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: Busy Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/busywheels2.jpg\" title=\"busywheels2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/busywheels2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"busywheels2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Introduction\/Summary<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/WHEELS-Peter-Lippman-Random-Selected\/dp\/B00172LU18\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1252299578&amp;sr=1-1\">Busy Wheels<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookfinder.com\/author\/peter-lippman\/\">Peter Lippman <\/a>\u00a0and illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia explores a variety of different machines found in the environment. This books gives many good examples of how wheels can be used. All of these items with wheels do very important jobs. &#8220;Some children ride in school buses. Some Ride on bicycles. Others travel by car.&#8221; This book provides many everyday examples that students may see in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<br \/>\n<\/strong>This book would be a great way to show students examples of machines with wheels. It could be used for\u00a0students to read at a center or could be used as a teaching tool for the whole class. This applies to SOL 3.2 (c and d) providing examples of everyday machines in school, home and in the community.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usoe.k12.ut.us\/curr\/Science\/sciber00\/8th\/machines\/sciber\/machines.htm\">This website<\/a> provides definitions of both simple and compound machines. This site could be a very good beginning point for the students.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videos.howstuffworks.com\/hsw\/5382-compound-machines-pulley-video.htm\">This video<\/a>\u00a0gives the students an opportunity to watch how a compound machine, the pulley works. This would expand on the students knowledge.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edheads.org\/activities\/simple-machines\/\">Here<\/a> is a simple activity for students to complete about machines. This site provides lesson plans for the teacher on different types of machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>General Information<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Book:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/WHEELS-Peter-Lippman-Random-Selected\/dp\/B00172LU18\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1252299578&amp;sr=1-1\">Busy Wheels<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookfinder.com\/author\/peter-lippman\/\">Peter Lippman<br \/>\n<\/a><strong>Illustrator:<\/strong>Aurelius Battaglia<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Random House<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1973<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong>38<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:<\/strong> 2-4<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:<\/strong>0-394-82706-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction\/Summary Busy Wheels by Peter Lippman \u00a0and illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia explores a variety of different machines found in the environment. This books gives many good examples of how wheels can be used. All of these items with wheels do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/07\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-busy-wheels\/\">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":[50,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}