34 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Keine Beschreibung.

When Bullies Act Out, It's Time for Buddies and BaseballA cloud hangs over Jack as he begins fifth grade. Two boys from his class, Steve and Cliff, who began bullying him last spring, harass him again as soon as school starts. They take brownies and cookies from his lunch and call him "Mustard" because they think he's a coward. When Jack walks a different route to school to avoid them, they find him anyway. When he doesn't take a lunch but bri...

Ricky and his chubby beagle, Bones, don't fit in. Ricky is trying to be a good sport about his mother's recent marriage, but his new step-sister Annabelle and her cat are hard to take. Even when Bones saves the cat from a mountain lion's attack, Annabelle blames Bones for the mountain lion being there at all. When Bones goes missing in a thunderstorm, Ricky is frantic. This is a book about family love and adjustment, and the tie between a boy ...

From an out-of-control wildfire that nearly destroyed a town to a serial spouse killer in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado's largest national park.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

This text uses popular fiction titles to attract middle school students to nonfiction titles about science. Focusing on the general theme of water, this resource provides webs that lead to a variety of related nonfiction titles that should generate interest in science.

Established in 1915 but with a rich history stretching back even further, Rocky Mountain National Park is often called the crown jewel of the national park system.

Bold Women in Colorado History shares the stories of ten Centennial State women, among them Clara Brown, a former slave who ventured west and remade herself into a respected entrepreneur, Chipeta, a Kiowa Apache woman adopted into the Ute tribe, who helped negotiate for peace between her people and the white outsiders, and Dr. Justina Ford, who overcame both racial and gender prejudice to become the first black female physician in the state.

Rocky Mountain National Park is often called "the crown jewel" of the nation's park system. Set in Colorado in the southern part of the Rocky Mountain chain, which forms the backbone of North America, the park contains 72 named peaks above 12, 000 feet with the tallest of these, Longs Peak, rising to 14, 259 feet. Established in 1915 as a national park, it now hosts more than two million visitors every year. Vacationers enjoy picnicking, hikin...

This is a rich multicultural resource that you will use again and again.

Keine Beschreibung.

Focusing on climate and weather, this resource for teachers connects popular fiction titles to related non-fiction titles that should be of interest to young readers. It should also help them to build up their scientific knowledge. The material is designed for pupils in grades 5-9.

Focusing on animals, a subject of intense fascination for young students, this book helps educators build learning across the curriculum. Plot summaries, discussion topics, and student projects help develop library research skills and link language arts to science, math, social studies, and the arts.

Integrate language arts with science, social studies, and mathematics. This book provides summaries of children's literature and nonfiction books related to rain, wind, snow, and sunshine. Suggestions of books that combine elements of fiction and nonfiction help students move easily from fiction to nonfiction reading. Discussion starters and student activities extend learning with books that range from simple picture books to full-length chapt...

Now it's easy to locate the materials you need to implement the new NCTM math standards. Organized by such math topics as problem solving, estimation, number sense and numeration, and geometry and spatial relationships, this book shows users where to find manipulatives and materials, such as attribute blocks, pattern blocks, clocks, scales, multilink cubes and prisms, calculators, and sorting toys. It also lists specialized math books, compute...

Here is a rare and fascinating collection of personal letters written by 18 of the thousands of British emigrants who came to North America just prior to the American Revolution. The letters reveal the motivations, characteristics, and emotions of these subjects and also provide new insights into British-American migration of the time, especially personal networks among family and friends.

Megan wins the ice cream contest and next day is on TV. Terri's brother is pictured in the paper winning a school trophy. Her sister, Lynn, appears cheering at the basketball game. Terri feels like a nobody until the scuba classes. Terri, Megan, Brett, Brian, and Clarissa all audition for the school play and Terri is called back to read for the lead. Walking home, she slips on the ice and breaks her arm. Clarissa gets her role in the play... C...

WONDER WORLD Summer vacation holds little promise for Oliver. Offered a thirteenth birthday present of joining his grandmother for a vacation in Great Britain, he quickly accepts. With only several children and some unpromising adults, too late he realizes there are few others on the tour with whom he can make friends. In England, Scotland, and Wales, Oliver finds friends in unpredictable places. He and eighty-year old Mr. Hahn spend time toge...

Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date found and signs it with established code name. Plastic storage containers may hold it...