Koro's Medicine

Koro's Medicine
Author: Melanie Drewery
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781869691028

Koro seems to have an unappetising remedy for everything, from blisters to blocked noses. But could his enthusiasm for Māori rongoa (medicine) turn out to be contagious? Includes brief factual information on Māori herbal remedies. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Picture-Perfect Science Lessons

Picture-Perfect Science Lessons
Author: Karen Rohrich Ansberry
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1936137720

In this newly revised and expanded 2nd edition of Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan, who also coach teachers through nationwide workshops, offer time-crunched elementary educators comprehensive background notes to each chapter, new reading strategies, and show how to combine science and reading in a natural way with classroom-tested lessons in physical science, life science, and Earth and space science.

Teaching Science Through Trade Books

Teaching Science Through Trade Books
Author: Christine Anne Royce
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1936959135

If you like the popular?Teaching Science Through Trade Books? columns in NSTA?s journal Science and Children, or if you?ve become enamored of the award-winning Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series, you?ll love this new collection. It?s based on the same time-saving concept: By using children?s books to pique students? interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way.

Penguin Problems

Penguin Problems
Author: Jory John
Publisher: Random House Studio
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553513389

Have you ever thought: I have so many problems and nobody even cares? Well, penguins have problems too! Discover them in this hilarious collaboration from Jory John (All my friends are dead. and Quit Calling Me a Monster!) and Lane Smith (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales)! This penguin has come to tell you that life in Antarctica is no paradise. For starters, it is FREEZING. Also, penguins have a ton of natural predators. Plus, can you imagine trying to find your mom in a big ol’ crowd of identical penguins? No, thank you. Yes, it seems there is no escaping the drudgery of your daily grind, whatever it might be. Or perhaps we’ve just learned that grumps are everywhere. . . . This book is sure to tickle kids’ funny bones and will elicit appreciative sighs from the adults reading it aloud. "We are all Mortimer [the main character in Penguin Problems]." —The New York Times “Bursting with humor.” —Kirkus Reviews “The snark level is cranked up high.” —The Horn Book, Starred “Will be right at home with fans of Jon Klassen’s This Is Not My Hat.” —Booklist “Classic comedy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rib-tickling.” —School Library Journal

Teaching Science with Favorite Picture Books

Teaching Science with Favorite Picture Books
Author: Ann Flagg
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439222716

Explains how to use fifteen science-based picture books to teach students in grades one through three the basic fundamentals of science; includes reproducibles and easy activities.

Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books

Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books
Author: Judi Hechtman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590762502

Provides literature-based activities for teaching math to students in grades one through three, each with activities, reproducible patterns, and recording sheets.

Bugs and Bugsicles

Bugs and Bugsicles
Author: Amy S. Hansen
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1590787633

Every fall, insects disappear. And every spring, they return. Where do they go? The author and illustrator re-create the insects' movements and reveal their secrets.

A Nest Full of Eggs

A Nest Full of Eggs
Author: Priscilla Belz Jenkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1995-03-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0064451275

This first look at robins follows a full year of growth and change: how the birds develop inside their egg during the spring, how they mature from chicks into fledglings in the summer, how they learn to fly in the fall, and how they leave for warmer climes in winter—only to return when spring comes around again. 1995 Best Children’s Science Books (BL)

Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!

Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!
Author: April Pulley Sayre
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2010
Genre: Animal rescue
ISBN: 1580891489

From before the time she hatches until she returns to the same beach to lay eggs of her own, a sea turtle is helped to escape from danger many times by different human hands.