{"id":1699,"date":"2009-09-10T20:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T01:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1699"},"modified":"2009-09-10T20:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T01:24:24","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-living-sunlight-how-plants-bring-the-earth-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/10\/teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-living-sunlight-how-plants-bring-the-earth-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: Living Sunlight How Plants Bring the Earth to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/forces-and-motion.jpg\" title=\"forces-and-motion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#2277dd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/photosynthesis.jpg\" title=\"photosynthesis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/photosynthesis.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"photosynthesis.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Living-Sunlight\/Penny-Chisholm\/e\/9780545044226\/?itm=1\">Living Sunlight How Plants Bring the Earth to Life<\/a>\u00a0written by\u00a0Molly Bang &amp; Penny Chisholm, illustrated by Molly Bang<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This book&#8217;s brightly colored pictures not only\u00a0describe photosynthesis to children, but it also tells why it is important to us and our planet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Sun tells the story of photosynthesis by starting off describing itself and what it does for Earth. &#8220;My light becomes the energy for all life on Earth.&#8221; It goes on to describe photosynthesis in green plants. &#8220;Plants suck up water-H2O-from the Earth. In daylight, green plants catch my energy with their chlorophyll.&#8221; It also goes on to tell us different reasons why it is important that we know about it, &#8220;All the oxygen you living creatures breathe comes from green plants.&#8221; There is a notes page in the back of the book that helps to describe photosynthesis in more detail and gives additional information that can be looked at for furthering the education on photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Living Sunlight How Plants Bring the Earth to Life <\/em>is a great resource for teaching\u00a0photosynthesis. It helps\u00a0students understand the process that is involved and how\u00a0photosynthesis is involved in the life cycle. It is connected to VA SOL 4.4 (c). The student will investigate and understand basic plant anatomy and life processes including photosynthesis (sunlight, chlorophyll, water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and sugar).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For a lesson plan on\u00a0photosynthesis\u00a0check out <a href=\"http:\/\/globe.ucar.edu\/tctg\/earth_la_seaphen_p4.pdf?sectionId=264\">A Beginning Look at Photosynthesis: Plants Need Light<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A simple explanation is made in the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/bgpurples.podbean.com\/\">Photosynthesis<\/a>. There are a few different podcasts on the same page, but just scroll down to the heading of photosynthesis and you will be able to listen to the podcast as you\u00a0watch some visuals.<\/li>\n<li>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachervision.fen.com\/tv\/printables\/botr\/botr_022_11-11.pdf\">photosynthesis<\/a> worksheet where they can label\u00a0some parts of photosynthesis.<\/li>\n<li>Even though the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationalrap.com\/62\/photosynthesis.html\">Photosynthesis Rap<\/a>\u00a0may be a\u00a0little advanced, it is catchy and it may spark some curiosity in your students.\u00a0Even if you don&#8217;t want to play the entire song, the first verse and chorus would still be helpful.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonsapple.tv\/TeacherGuide.php?id=915\">photosynthesis activity<\/a> on Newton&#8217;s Apple\u00a0will take a few days to see the results, but\u00a0it will be worth it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Living-Sunlight\/Penny-Chisholm\/e\/9780545044226\/?itm=1\">Living Sunlight How Planets Bring the Earth to Life<\/a><font color=\"#2277dd\"><br \/>\n<\/font><strong>Author:<\/strong> Molly Bang &amp; Penny Chisholm<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrator:<\/strong>\u00a0Molly Bang<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: <\/strong>The Blue Sky Press<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 2009<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong> 40 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range: <\/strong>1-6<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN: <\/strong>9780545044226<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Sunlight How Plants Bring the Earth to Life\u00a0written by\u00a0Molly Bang &amp; Penny Chisholm, illustrated by Molly Bang This book&#8217;s brightly colored pictures not only\u00a0describe photosynthesis to children, but it also tells why it is important to us and our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/10\/teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-living-sunlight-how-plants-bring-the-earth-to-life\/\">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":[758,197,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-science","category-nonfiction","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","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=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}