{"id":2353,"date":"2010-02-07T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2353"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:57:19","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-when-will-it-be-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/02\/07\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-when-will-it-be-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children’s Literature: When Will It Be Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Will It Be Spring?<\/a>, written and illustrated by Catherine Walters is a story of a young cub, Alfie, that is in hibernation with Mother Bear.\u00a0 He is so excited for spring that he does not sleep, instead he keeps asking his mother how he will know when it is spring.\u00a0 She describes to the young cub what to expect from the season, for example, “when the butterflies float by looking for new flowers, then it will be spring”, and orders him to go back to sleep.\u00a0 Alfie continues to misinterpret the winter patterns until Spring finally arrives.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections
\n<\/strong>This book can assist teachers with the introduction of understanding basic patterns and cycles that occur in nature and how those patterns such as seasonal changes affect animal’s behavior and life cycles (SOL 2.7a, 3.8a,b).\u00a0 Another way this book can assist teachers is by starting discussions about how adaptations allow animals to respond to their environment, specifically hibernation (SOL 3.4a,b).\u00a0 Lastly, this book is a great example of how natural events are sequenced chronologically (SOL 3.1d).<\/p>\n

Additional Resources
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