{"id":1788,"date":"2009-09-19T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T20:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1788"},"modified":"2009-09-19T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T20:49:52","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-just-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/19\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-just-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science With Children&#8217;s Literature: Just a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/6083_md.jpg\" title=\"6083_md.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/6083_md.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"6083_md.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a book to discuss the concepts of pollution, recycling and environmental stewardship.\u00a0 Use <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Just-a-Dream\/Chris-Van-Allsburg\/e\/9780395533086\/?itm=1&amp;usri=1\">Just a Dream<\/a>, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, to get class discussion started.<\/p>\n<p>With beautiful illustrations and kid friendly prose, this book is able to bring abstract ideas of resource conservation and health into children&#8217;s minds.\u00a0 While dreaming, Walter takes a journey into the future with revelation of what his litter bug ways might cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As usual, Walter stopped at the bakery on his way home from school.\u00a0 He bought one large jelly-filled doughnut&#8230; Then he crumpled up the empty bag and threw it at a fire hydrant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nUse this book to discuss resource management, human impact on the environment, and recycling. Themes in this book correlate with Virginia SOLs 1.8, 2.7, 2.8, 3.9- 3.11, 4.8, 5.7 and 6.9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your students and you can get involved with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsforsavingearth.org\/\">Kids for Saving Earth<\/a>.\u00a0 There are activities, information, and a club they can join.<\/li>\n<li>Try a global warming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsuzuki.org\/kids\/activities\/getting_around_activities.html\">experiment<\/a> on David Suzuki&#8217;s Nature Challenge for Kids website. Also, he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsuzuki.org\/kids\/teachers\/classroom.html\">teacher resources<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvanallsburg.com\/justadream_tresources.html\">Chris Van Allsburg<\/a> website extends the concepts of the book with activities and links to other site, like the EPAs and a recycling game.<\/li>\n<li>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/features\/thepolarexpress\/tg\/dream.shtml\">teacher&#8217;s guide<\/a> to connect to the book&#8217;s themes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Just-a-Dream\/Chris-Van-Allsburg\/e\/9780395533086\/?itm=1&amp;usri=1\">Just a Dream<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author\/ Illustrator:<\/strong> Chris Van Allsburg<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1990<br \/>\n<strong>Pages: <\/strong>48 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range: <\/strong>2-5<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 9780395533086<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a book to discuss the concepts of pollution, recycling and environmental stewardship.\u00a0 Use Just a Dream, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, to get class discussion started. With beautiful illustrations and kid friendly prose, this book is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/19\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-just-a-dream\/\">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":[50,773,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-earth-science","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","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=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}