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GREAT WEB SITES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Native Americans:
www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/woodland2.html
Colonial Life:
www.natick.k12.ma.us/schools/memorial/grades/grade3/Sullivan/sullivanlinks.htm
Ancient History:
http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/index.html
SCIENCE
Butterflies:
www.natick.k12.ma.us/schools/memorial/webquest/Baker/butterfly/butterfly6.html
www.mesc.usgs.gov/resources/education/butterfly/bfly_intro.asp
Space:
www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
SEARCH ENGINES
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!
www.ajkids.com
www.yahooligans.com
LESSONS, GAMES, & MISC.
www.enchantedlearning.com/home.html
www.abcteach.com
www.puzzlemaker.com
www.billybear4kids.com
www.pilkey.com
www.janbrett.com
www.randomhouse.com/seussville
www.weeklyreader.com
http://pbskids.org/
WEB TOOLS
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids
www.cooltext.com/logos
www.iconbazaar.com
www.awesomeclipartforkids.com
www.kidsdomain.com/icon/
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BURLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BOOKS FOR SUMMER
READING
The following book list is just a sampling
of all the wonderful books on the library shelves. Look for other
titles by the authors represented on the list.
Picture Books are for everyone. They are located in the E section
of the public library.
Bang-Campbell Little Rat Sets Sail
Brett Noah’s Ark
Bridges Ruby’s Wish
Bryan Beautiful Blackbird
Carle The Very Busy Spider
Cole On the Way to the Beach
Cole When the Tide is Low
Compestine The Story of Chopsticks
Cronin Diary of a Worm
DePaola Stregna Nona: An Old Tale
Feiffer Bark, George
Gerstein The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Henkes Kitten’s First Full Moon
Ho Hush! A Thai Lullaby
Hoffman Amazing Grace
Johnson Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
Karas Atlantic
Kellogg Pinkerton, Behave!
Khan Ruler of the Courtyard
Lakin Beach Day
LaMarche The Raft
Lester Sam and the Tigers
London Froggy Gets Dressed
Look Henry’s First-Moon Birthday
Mannis One Leaf Rides the Wind
McCloskey Blueberries for Sal
McMullan I Stink
Martin Barn Dance
Meddaugh Martha Speaks
Pallotta Dory Story
Pilkey Dog Breath
Polacco Mrs. Katz and Tush
Priceman How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Recorvits My Name is Yoon
Red Sox Wives Fenway Park from A to Z
Rohmann My Friend Rabbit
Say Grandfather’s Journey
Sciezka Math Curse
So Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop
Steig Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Stoeke A Hat for Minerva Louise
Viorst Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad
Day
Waddell Tiny’s Big Adventure
Wells Bunny Money
Wiesner The Three Pigs
Willems The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog
Willems Knuffle Bunny
For the BEGINNING READER look for the following
titles or any titles by these authors.
They are located in the ER section of the public library.
Byars Hooray For The Golly Sisters
Capucilli Biscuit Wins a Prize
Gantos Rotten Ralph Helps Out
Hoban Arthur’s Pen Pal
Johnston Alien & Possum
Lobel Frog and Toad Are Friends
Marshall Fox in Love
Minarik A Kiss for Little Bear
Rylant Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night
Rylant Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog
Sharmat Nate the Great and Stolen Base
Van Leeuwen Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver
Yolen Commander Toad and the Space Pirates
Beginning FICTION books are for the young, independent
reader. Look for a RED DOT
on books in the fiction section and the paperback section.
Adler Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery
Byars Little Horse
Clements Jake Drake Bully Buster
Danzinger Amber Brown is not a Crayon
DeGroat Annie Pitts, Artichoke
Duffey A Boy in the Doghouse
Giff In the Dinosaur’s Paw
Jennings The Weeping Willow: An Ike and Mem Story
King-Smith Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig
Kline Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
Labatt Strange Neighbors
Landon Meg MacIntosh and the Mystery at the Medieval Castle
LeGuin Catwings
Park Junie B. Jones as a Peep in her Pocket
Peterson I Hate Camping
Sachs JoJo & Winnie Again
Spark your imagination by reading some of the FICTION
listed below. They are located in the fiction and paperback sections
of the Library.
Avi Poppy
Banks Dillon, Dillon
Bellairs The Mansion in the Mist
Byars Wanted…Mud Blossom
Cleary Ramona’s World
Clements A Week in the Woods
Creech Ruby Holler
Dadey Genies Don’t Ride Bicycles (Bailey School Kids)
Dahl The Witches
DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy
Fleischman Bandits’s Moon
Gannett My Father’s Dragon
Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods
Horvath Everything on a Waffle
Jacques Redwall
Keene Intrigue at the Grand Opera
Kinsey-Warnock The Night the Bells Rang
Kirkpatrick The Year of Miss Agnes
Korman Beware the Fish!
Lord In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lowry Anastasia Krupnik
Maguire Hamlet Chronicles Series
Marsden Gold Threaded Dress
Matlin Deaf Child Crossing
Osborne Summer of the Sea Serpent (Magic Tree House Series)
Park A Single Shard
Paulsen Mr. Tucket
Peck A Year Down Yonder
Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Schwartz Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scieszka Summer Reading is Killing Me
Spinelli Star Girl
Tolan Surviving the Applewhites
Van Draanen Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Warner The Boxcar Children
White Stuart Little
Wiles Love, Ruby Lavender
Wright The Wish Master
Interesting NON-FICTION books are located in the
non-fiction section, arranged by the call number in the public
library.
J 331.3 Bartoletti Growing Up in Coal Country
J 398.3 Brucker An Anklet for a Princess: a Cinderella Tale from
India
J 398.2 Goble Iktomi and the Ducks
J 398.2 Heo The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale
J 398.2 McDermott The Stonecutter: A Japanese Folktale
J 513 McGrath Baseball Counting Book
J 513 Pallotta Underwater Counting Book
J 551.44 Harrison Caves—Mysteries Beneath Our Feet
J 595.96 Snakes
J 574.92 Goodman Wading into Marine Biology
J 581.1 Richards A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds
J 595.7 Parker Bugs
J 599.3 Jango-Cohen Digging Armadillos
J 609 Harper Imaginative Inventions
J 629.1 Busby First to Fly:How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented
the Airplane
J 635 Bjork Linnea’s Windowsill Garden
J 745.5 Martin Nature’s Art Box
J 745.54 Simon The Paper Airplane Book
J 811 George Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
J 811 Lee Bubblegum Delicious
J 811 Prelutsky My Parents Think I’m Sleeping
J 811 Sin Family Reunion
J 811.54 Hoberman You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You
J 811.54 Williams Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
J 912 Rabe There’s a Map in My Lap
J 974.7 Kalman Fireboat
J 975.3 Zschock Journey Around Washington, D.C from A to Z
J 978 Anderson Cowboys
J BIO Stetson or 338.7 Car Boss of the Plains
J BIO Anderson The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson…
J BIO Anning Fossil Girl: Mary Anning’s Dinosaur
J BIO Audubon Into the Woods: John James Audubon
J BIO Bentley or 551.5 Mar Snowflake Bentley
J BIO Bon At Her Majesty’s Request: An African American
Princess in
Victorian England
J BIO Carson Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson (Sara Forbes Bonetta)
J BIO Guthrey This Land Was Made for You and Me
J BIO Roosevelt Eleanor
J BIO Rudolph Wilma Unlimited
J BIO Tubman Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
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WEB-BASED MATERIALS FOR USE FOR LOOKING AT SEPTEMBER
11TH ONE YEAR LATER
The following websites have materials related
to the anniversary of September 11th and other related topics. These
websites present lessons and activities for use by teachers in all
types of learning situations.
www.socialstudies.com
is full of interesting resources for the entire social studies program.
Social Studies Services September 11th resources
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@4FSUWnTKkjgy6/Pages/currentevents.html
Social Studies Services Regional Maps Greater Middle East
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@4FSUWnTKkjgy6/Pages/product.html?record@TF34281
Social Studies Services Global Terrorism
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@4FSUWnTKkjgy6/Pages/product.html?record@TF34136
Set of very useful lesson plans and activities about September 11th
for teachers to use
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@4FSUWnTKkjgy6/Pages/article.html?article@freelessons911
New York Times Resources about September 11th
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/terrorism/
Set of responses and lessons plans based on events of September
11, 2001 may be very useful for reflection one year later.
Examples of lesson topics
Another Day That Will Live in Infamy – Ways to explore facts
and feelings about September 11th
Speak Out! - Using editorial writings to explore the impact
of the September 11th attack
Drawing on Terror – Using Editorial Cartoons to explain terrorism
and September 11th
In all, five categories with more than 50 lessons and over 30 articles
additional published articles about the events and many other resources.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20010919wednesday.html
The New York Times provides information and resources for use by
teachers called the Daily Lesson Plan. Here is one example of daily
lesson related to leaders coming to Washington to confer with President
Bush on September 19, 2001 about responding to world terrorism.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
This is the location to locate other daily lesson plans for the
New York Times that are available for teacher use on a variety of
topics.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/snapshot/index.html
Index of daily current event snapshots opportunities which include
a newsworthy photo from the New York Times and some basic who, what,
where, and why questions and responses by various NY Times journalists
about the related current events topic. Other resources are on the
web page for more in depth use.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/snapshot/20010912.html
World Trade Center attack current event snapshot
For Grades 3-5
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/terrorism/
On this web page is a student written commemorative issue of their
school newspaper download file of the Spectator, The Stuyvesant
High School Newspaper of October 2, 2001
The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/reprints/whatdowetell.htm
A very interesting article which describes the effects of this tragedy
on children
What Do We Tell Our Children?
Fathom
http://www.fathom.com/special/sept_11/index.jhtml?id=420000&pid=420000&navAction=push&navCount=2
A web page for an organization, which has some excellent resources
for classroom teachers to use about terrorism, affects on the global
community and other very good information in other social studies
topics.
American Arab Committee
The following website American Arabs Anti-Discrimination Committee
has many useful resources about Arab American perspectives on their
lives in America and Arab culture.
http://www.adc.org
http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=203
educational resources
Provides educational resources about Arab history, religion and
culture
The American Forum for Global Education
Presents excellent materials on global issues and educational connections
www.globaled.org
http://www.globaled.org/muslimmideast/
Provides a very good list of materials and readings about the Muslim
identity in the world
British Broadcasting News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1538352.stm
World leader quotes about the September 11th attack video and audio
clips on September 11th
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