{"id":1767,"date":"2009-09-20T20:38:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T01:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1767"},"modified":"2009-09-20T20:38:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T01:38:46","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-moonbears-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/20\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-moonbears-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: Moonbear&#8217;s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/moonbears-shadow.jpg\" title=\"moonbears-shadow.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/moonbears-shadow.jpg\" title=\"moonbears-shadow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/moonbears-shadow.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"moonbears-shadow.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/s_pumpkinpumpkin.jpg\" title=\"s_pumpkinpumpkin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love it when I can find a book that teaches science content without students realizing it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moonbears-Shadow-Frank-Asch\/dp\/0689835191\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1253495158&amp;sr=1-1\">Moonbear&#8217;s Shadow<\/a>, written and illustrated by Frank Asch, is a lovely book about a bear&#8217;s fishing adventure. During this outing, Bear has a battle with his shadow\u00a0that started when his shadow scared the fish away. Bear tried to run away from his shadow, hide from his shadow, and even nail his shadow to the ground but his shadow always followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Bear finally won his fight, so he thought, when he buried his shadow in a hole at noon and took a nap.\u00a0 &#8220;The sun was high in the sky and Shadow was nowhere to be seen.&#8221;\u00a0Of course when he woke up, the shadow reappeared. This witty books ends when Bear makes a deal with Shadow, &#8220;If you let me catch a fish, I&#8217;ll let you catch one, too&#8221;.\u00a0 Thankfully, the sun cooperated by casting Bear&#8217;s shadow on land, not in the pond, which allowed Bear and his shadow to each catch a fish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Moonbear&#8217;s Shadow<\/em> is a great introduction to shadows for kindergarten classes.\u00a0\u00a0(VA SOL K.7a)\u00a0 I like how the pictures in this book\u00a0show a\u00a0visual connection between the sun&#8217;s position in the sky and the length and location of the shadow.\u00a0\u00a0My favorite page depicts the movement of the sun in four phases and the result of the sun&#8217;s position on a shovel&#8217;s shadow.\u00a0 This book is sure to get students excited to learn about shadows.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are many wonderful shadow activities on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankasch.com\/forteachers.html\">Frank Asch&#8217;s website <\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This is an interactive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schools\/ks2bitesize\/science\/physical_processes\/light_shadows\/play.shtml\">website<\/a>\u00a0with a shadow activity that\u00a0students will love<\/li>\n<li>Here is a simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlsbooks.com\/dinoshadowmatch.pdf\">worksheet<\/a>\u00a0in which students\u00a0match a dinosaur to its respective shadow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moonbears-Shadow-Frank-Asch\/dp\/0689835191\/ref=pd_sim_b_1#\">Moonbear&#8217;s Shadow<br \/>\n<\/a>Author: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankasch.com\/home.html\">Frank Asch<\/a><br \/>\nIllustrator: Frank Asch<br \/>\nPublisher: Aladdin<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeteaching.com\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Publication Date: 2000<br \/>\nPages: 32<br \/>\nGrade Range: K-3<br \/>\nISBN: 0689835191<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when I can find a book that teaches science content without students realizing it.\u00a0 Moonbear&#8217;s Shadow, written and illustrated by Frank Asch, is a lovely book about a bear&#8217;s fishing adventure. During this outing, Bear has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/20\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-moonbears-shadow\/\">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":[50,773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-earth-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}