{"id":1715,"date":"2009-09-12T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1715"},"modified":"2009-09-12T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T02:42:00","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-salmon-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/12\/teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-salmon-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: Salmon Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/16506619.jpg\" title=\"16506619.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/16506619.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"16506619.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Salmon-Creek\/Annette-Lebox\/e\/9780888996442\/?itm=3&amp;usri=1\" title=\"Salmon Creek\">Salmon Creek<\/a><\/em><strong>,<\/strong> written by Annette LeBox\u00a0and\u00a0illustrated by\u00a0Karen Reczuch, is an engaging story about the life cycle of a salmon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Salmon Creek<\/em> is the story of Sumi, a coho salmon.\u00a0\u00a0Sumi&#8217;s journey of\u00a0life\u00a0starts in the creek bed where she\u00a0is hatched.\u00a0 It takes\u00a0her\u00a0through streams, rivers, the ocean, and her return to the creek bed where the journey began.\u00a0\u00a0Sumi&#8217;s journey ends as she spawns eggs of her own.\u00a0 The illustrations in this book\u00a0are colorful, and help to draw the reader into the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>Salmon Creek<\/em> is an excellent book for highlighting\u00a0the series of orderly changes in the life of a coho salmon.\u00a0 It also references habitat, spawning, and their homeward migration.\u00a0 SOL 2.4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/xpeditions\/lessons\/09\/gk2\/migrationsalmon.html\" title=\"Salmon migration\">National Geographic <\/a>site has a great deal of information and resources, including a lesson plan, handouts, and\u00a0a slide show.<\/li>\n<li>A short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neok12.com\/php\/watch.php?v=zX077c475f44654b6f0d1a55&amp;t=Marine-Animals\" title=\"Salmon life-cycle video\">video clip <\/a>shows the life-cycle of a salmon. run time: 3.25 minutes<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/idahoptv.org\/dialogue4kids\/season7\/fish\/references.cfm\" title=\"fish reference guide for kids\">website<\/a>\u00a0lists additional books that may complement this unit.\u00a0\u00a0The bottom of the page offers links that provide\u00a0a vocabulary word bank and an interactive fish facts page that is geared towards independent\u00a0use by your students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book<\/strong>:\u00a0 <em>Salmon Creek<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Author<\/strong>:\u00a0 Annette LeBox<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacketflap.com\/persondetail.asp?person=132652\" title=\"robert e. wells\"><font color=\"#2277dd\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/a><strong>Illustrator<\/strong>:\u00a0 Karen Reczuch<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacketflap.com\/persondetail.asp?person=132652\" title=\"robert e. wells\"><font color=\"#2277dd\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/a><strong>Publisher<\/strong>:\u00a0 Groundwood Books\/Douglas &amp; McIntyre<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date<\/strong>:\u00a0 2005<br \/>\n<strong>Pages<\/strong>:\u00a0 32<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range<\/strong>:\u00a0 k-3<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong>:\u00a0 9780888996442\u00a0and 0-88899-458-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Salmon Creek, written by Annette LeBox\u00a0and\u00a0illustrated by\u00a0Karen Reczuch, is an engaging story about the life cycle of a salmon. Salmon Creek is the story of Sumi, a coho salmon.\u00a0\u00a0Sumi&#8217;s journey of\u00a0life\u00a0starts in the creek bed where she\u00a0is hatched.\u00a0 It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/12\/teaching-life-science-with-childrens-literature-salmon-creek\/\">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":[50,758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-life-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","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=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}