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| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Wonderland Caterpillars Pasquale De Marco, 2025-05-02 Caterpillars are one of the most fascinating and diverse groups of insects on the planet. They come in all shapes and sizes, and they can be found in every corner of the world. This comprehensive guide to the world of caterpillars covers everything from their biology and behavior to their role in the environment. It is packed with beautiful photographs and illustrations that bring the world of caterpillars to life. In this book, you will learn about: * The different types of caterpillars * The life cycle of a caterpillar * Caterpillar habitats * Caterpillar food sources * Caterpillar defenses * Caterpillar predators * Caterpillar parasites * Caterpillar diseases * Caterpillar conservation * And much more! Whether you are a seasoned entomologist or simply someone who is curious about the natural world, this book is sure to fascinate and inform you. **Inside this book, you will find:** * Over 100 pages of information about caterpillars * Hundreds of beautiful photographs and illustrations * In-depth information on caterpillar biology and behavior * Fascinating facts about caterpillars from around the world * A comprehensive guide to caterpillar identification * Tips on how to raise caterpillars in captivity * And much more! **Wonderland Caterpillars** is the perfect book for anyone who wants to learn more about these amazing creatures. It is a valuable resource for students, teachers, entomologists, and anyone else who is interested in the natural world. If you like this book, write a review on google books! |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: The Vintage Teacup Club Vanessa Greene, 2013-11-05 Three women’s lives are about to change because of a few delicate pieces of china... When Jenny Davis comes across a beautiful vintage tea set at an outdoor market in the English countryside, she’s convinced it’s fate. A young bride on a budget, she has her heart set on a vintage tea-party theme for her wedding—and the gorgeous gold-rimmed china before her is perfect. There’s only one problem. Two other women have fallen in love with it, too. So they come up with a solution: They’ll share it. They establish a sisterhood, sharing the ups and downs of their lives—from broken hearts and weddings, to family drama and career dreams. When a figure from Jenny’s past threatens to ruin her big day, Alison’s teenage daughter pushes her to the limit, and Maggie’s romantic life is thrown into turmoil, the members of the Vintage Teacup Club band together—proving their newfound friendship will last a lifetime. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: A Guide for Using The Very Hungry Caterpillar in the Classroom Barbara Shilling, 1999 Includes the following features: sample lesson plans, pre-reading activities, biographical sketch and picture of the author, book summary, vocabulary lists and vocabulary activity ideas, quizzes, hands-on projects, cooperative learning activities, cross-curricular activities, post-reading activities, book report ideas & research ideas. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: James and the Giant Peach - Literature Kit Gr. 3-4 Marie-Helen Goyetche, 2006-12-01 Gain a sense of wonder as you travel across the Atlantic in a giant peach. Help students understand reading comprehension and aid them with higher-order thinking questions. Make predictions about what will happen next, and get into the heads of the characters by explaining what they mean with their dialog. Think about the magic power that changes the peach and imagine how it would affect a person, insect or animal. Write a sentence using alliteration to describe an object or event. Complete a KWL Chart on one of the creatures from the book. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: A humorous and entertaining fairy tale about the adventures of a boy named James and his insect friends. An old man gives James green magical crystals that do wonders on a peach as it grows bigger than a house. With his insect friends, James flies from England to New York City with the help of 502 seagulls, and lands on the pinnacle of the Empire State Building. His friend, Old-Green-Grasshopper, becomes part of the New York Symphony Orchestra. Silkworm and Miss Spider set up a factory and make ropes for tightrope walkers. Ladybug gets married to the Head of the Fire Department. Glow-worm becomes the light inside the Statue of Liberty. Centipede is made Vice-President of a high-class firm of boot manufacturers. Earthworm makes commercials for a face cream company. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: James and the Giant Peach Lucy Dahl, 1996 Offers a glimpse into the life of Roald Dahl, author of James and the Giant Peach, and tells the story of how the book was made into a movie. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: The Tim Burton Encyclopedia Samuel J. Umland, 2015-09-28 Tim Burton has been a major director for a quarter of a century, producing both cult classics and blockbuster films including Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. An A-Z list of all things Burton, including his live action films, his animated features, his shorts, his non-film work, and the collaborators who have helped manifest his unique perspective into memorable works of cinema. The book will highlight Burton’s accomplishments as a visual artist with an uncompromised aesthetic, narrating the evolution of his creative practice from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature works. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Learning English Neil Mercer, Joan Swann, 1996 English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings. This book examines processes of language acquisition in English, as well as what it means to learn English in different parts of the world. It looks at the place of English within formal education, and at some of the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of English. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Insects Thematic Unit Kathee Gosnell, 1995 Some of the interesting insects illustrated and described are grasshoppers, bees, butterflies and fireflies. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Africa Gr. 5-8 Irene Evagelelis, David McAleese, 2007-03-01 Take a trip back to the cradle of life and explore the great Sahara Desert in Africa. Become familiar with the national capitals and major cities where the majority of the human population reside. Get a sense of the location of different countries in Africa by placing them in their correct categories in a graphic organizer. Collect facts about the Masal people of eastern Africa. Research two of the endangered animals in Africa to evaluate just how close they are to extinction. Design a pamphlet to showcase why the camel is suited to travel in the desert. Describe the Nile Valley and Serengeti Plains, and explain what makes these regions unique. Understand where the major lakes and rivers are in Africa by examining a waterway map. Aligned to your State Standards and the Five Themes of Geography, additional maps, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: World Political Leaders Gr. 5-8 Darcy Frisina, 2008-09-01 Get the scoop on twelve of the most interesting World Political Leaders from the past two centuries. Our resource reviews the global impact of these leaders while making these concepts more accessible to students. Begin your journey in the United States with a look at the leadership of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Compare Bush's war on terrorism with Obama's response to the war in Iraq. Journey down south with a stop in Mexico, where Vicente Fox acted as mediator between George W. Bush and Fidel Castro during an international summit. Cross the pond on your way to the United Kingdom. Learn about Margaret Thatcher's role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Read about how Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from being an actor and comedian to the President of Ukraine. Learn how Nelson Mandela fought to bring equal rights for all citizens of South Africa. Journey to Tibet and explore the reincarnated spirit of the Dalai Lama, now head of state and spiritual leader of the Buddhist religion. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: World Electoral Processes Gr. 5-8 Darcy Frisina, 2008-09-01 Become a voting expert with a clear understanding of the election process. Our resource breaks down the differences between a presidential, parliamentary and dictatorship government. Travel back to ancient times to experience the first voting system. Explore the concept of a democratic government and whether it truly represents the people. Discover how the president has to share powers with the legislature in a presidential system. Explain why it is easier to pass laws in the parliamentary system than in the presidential system. Roleplay as a member of Parliament and deliver a 90-second statement about an important issue. Find out why most dictators were military leaders, and how the role of dictator has changed over time. Learn about suffrage and what the requirements are for a citizen to be allowed to vote. Hold your own election to decide on a policy for running your classroom. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Geometry - Task Sheets Gr. PK-2 Mary Rosenberg, 2009-09-01 Help young students get familiar with basic shapes found in Geometry. Our resource provides task and word problems surrounding real-life scenarios. See how many circles, squares and rectangles you can find in the picture. Explain how you would sort the shapes you find. Use different shapes to make a robot or house. Find and name the different shapes. Go on the Internet to find some solid shapes that are made from basic shapes put together. Count the number of sides and corners on each shape. Describe where each shape is found in a picture. Follow instructions to draw shapes in specific locations. Transform a shape by turning it, sliding it, or flipping it. Draw the missing half of a symmetrical shape. The task sheets provide a leveled approach to learning, starting with prekindergarten and increasing in difficulty to grade 2. Aligned to your State Standards and meeting the concepts addressed by the NCTM standards, reproducible task sheets, drill sheets, review and answer key are included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Gulf Wars Big Book Gr. 5-8 Nat Reed, 2009-03-01 Find out why Iraq remains a country in turmoil with our Gulf Wars 2-book BUNDLE. Start by getting the facts about the U.S.-led Operation Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War. Conduct a research report on the process of extracting oil to establish the motivations behind the invasion of Kuwait. Read about the invasion of Kuwait and how other countries and the UN reacted to this. Show your artistic side by designing a comic strip, poster or diorama showcasing some aspect of the war. Then, jump into the complex and controversial military operation that was the Iraq War. Complete a map activity to get a full picture of the area where these events took place. Find out about world terrorism and how the fear of weapons of mass destruction being made in Iraq escalated this conflict. Read about Operation Iraqi Freedom and how it compared to strategies during the Persian Gulf War. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Measurement - Task Sheets Gr. PK-2 Chris Forest, 2009-10-01 Get a sense of how things relate to one another with a look at early level Measurement. Our resource provides task and word problems surrounding real-life scenarios. Use a quarter to find out how long the desk is. Estimate how long it would take for a tadpole to become a frog. Use a thermometer while learning how to measure temperature. Learn about units of measure by figuring out which would be best to use on certain objects. Count the small boxes that make up a shape to find its area. Use a teaspoon, cup and some water to experiment with volume. Use a paper clip to estimate the weight of a pencil. The task sheets provide a leveled approach to learning, starting with prekindergarten and increasing in difficulty to grade 2. Aligned to your State Standards and meeting the concepts addressed by the NCTM standards, reproducible task sheets, drill sheets, review and answer key are included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Europe Gr. 5-8 Irene Evagelelis, David McAleese, 2007-03-01 Journey to the ancient centers of culture and trade with a trip to Europe. Understand the variety of ecosystems that inhabit the continent with a climate map. Gain a sense of direction by identifying the European cities that are found in the western and eastern hemispheres. Do some research into the famed Thames river and find out how long it is, which countries it passes through, and into which large body of water it flows into. Learn about the accident at Chernobyl and what negative effect it had on the environment. Find out why trains are an important form of transportation in Europe. Compare the physical characteristics of Provence and the Scottish highlands using a Venn diagram. Find the location of the Prime Meridian on an outline map and name the countries in Europe that it passes through. Aligned to your State Standards and the Five Themes of Geography, additional maps, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Water Conservation Big Book Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2009-09-01 Find out why water is essential for life on Earth with our Water Conservation 3-book BUNDLE. Start by examining the water we drink with Fresh Water Resources. Build a greenhouse to see firsthand how climate change can affect fresh water. Describe how the water supply in a village could become unfit for drinking in a scenario. Next, see how climate change affects the oceans we fish with Ocean Water Resources. See how the water cycle explains why most of Earth's salt water is found in the oceans. Make your own salt water to represent Earth's oceans and experience what it would be like to visit them. Finally, visit the lakes and streams we enjoy with Waterway Habitat Resources. Become an ecologist and list factors in an aquatic ecosystem as biotic or abiotic. Find out why some aquatic organisms have a hard time adapting to climate change. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Capitalism vs. Communism Gr. 5-8 Darcy Frisina, 2008-09-01 Discover the rise of Capitalism from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Our resource explores the differences between a Capitalistic, Communist and Globalization economy. Step into the Dust Bowl era and experience the hardships of the Great Depression. Explain how the New Deal helped the United States recover during this dismal time. Travel back to the Industrial Revolution and find out why people became more interested in Communism as a result of these changes. Recognize that the Cold War was a war between Capitalism and Communism, and discover how Capitalism changed throughout the world since this conflict. Experience what it's like to shop at the mall in a Communist country, and how this would affect your own lifestyle. Explore the dangers of monopolies in a Capitalistic economy. Find out about the Inca culture and how it is similar to Communism. Get a global view of the world economy by seeing how businesses benefit from world-wide partnerships. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Iraq War (2003-2010) Gr. 5-8 Nat Reed, 2009-02-01 Jump into the complex and controversial military operation that saw the United States act to topple the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein. From 2003 to 2010, our resource brings to life the unrest and instability of Iraq, as well as the anti-war feelings and protests in the U.S. that resulted from this conflict. Create a poster that encourages tourism in Iraq. Complete a map activity to get a full picture of the area where these events took place. Learn the events of the Persian Gulf War, and how this led to the war in Iraq. Find out about world terrorism and how the fear of weapons of mass destruction being made in Iraq escalated this conflict. Read about Operation Iraqi Freedom and how it compared to strategies during the Persian Gulf War. Write a poem that tells the story of someone's experiences in wartime. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2009-12-01 Bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their school's carbon footprint. Our resource helps students determine their school's carbon footprint and what they can do to make it smaller. Identify fossil fuels used at school and how they make your life more convenient. Brainstorm ways to reduce energy used in your school. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Explore events in the history of a slice of bread that caused the emission of greenhouse gases. Calculate the amount of carbon dioxide trees would remove from the atmosphere if they were planted around the perimeter of your school. Complete a project that will lead to a reduced school footprint. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Australia Gr. 5-8 Irene Evagelelis, David McAleese, 2007-03-01 Go down under and escape to a whole new world in Australia. Take a vacation and visit the many islands that make up the Melanesian region. Find the exact location of 10 cities in Australia using their latitude and longitude coordinates. Examine the unique wildlife species Australia's island continent has to offer. Research and collect facts about the Great Barrier Reef using the Undersea Organizer. Explore the largest ports in Australia, like Sydney and Melbourne, and complete a web graphic organizer with the information collected. Record information about Australia's regions found in the Queensland and New South Wales territories. Take a look at the primary roads and highways that go through Australia. Aligned to your State Standards and the Five Themes of Geography, additional maps, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Gulliver's Travels - Literature Kit Gr. 7-8 Lisa Renaud, 2023-11-22 Go on a journey of self-discovery while traveling to mysterious lands. This unit study really helps with comprehension and vocabulary. Put events in the order as they happen when Gulliver stays with the Lilliputians. Compare the land of “giants” with your own neighborhood. Predict what Gulliver’s next land will be like. Determine what the animal-like creatures find shocking about Gulliver’s world. Conduct an interview with one of the leaders from the countries Gulliver visits. Poll your peers on their favorite countries in the novel and display the results in a graph. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: Gulliver’s Travels follows the many journeys Gulliver takes to different and strange lands. Gulliver is an English surgeon who is bored of life in England. He yearns to embark on the ocean and explore new places. During his travels, Gulliver finds himself in four strange lands. The first is a land of very small people. So small, that Gulliver appears a giant to them. The second land is that of giants, where Gulliver is the one who is small. Here, he is kept as a pet and faces dangers from everyday things. The third land everyone is the same size, but the land is a floating island. The ruler of this land threatens those living on the ground by landing his island on them. Finally, the fourth land is inhabited by a race of horse-like creatures. In this land, the horses are civilized and the human-like creatures are wild. It is in this final land that Gulliver finds his kindred spirits, not wishing to leave. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: 21st Century Skills - Learning Skills for Global Competency Gr. 3-8+ Sarah Joubert, Paul Laporte, Amanda McFarland, Michael Oosten, 2016-12-15 Adaptability and flexibility are essential skills required by all in this global economy. Our real-life project-based exercises and learning strategies will give your students the confidence to stand out from the crowd while utilizing essential dynamic traits. Practice creativity through role-playing scenarios and truly understand that failure is a learning opportunity. All content is presented in a way that fosters a culture of iteration and innovation with an emphasis on the willingness to change and improve. Students will better understand these concepts with the help of technology and media. Get tips and tricks on how you can ask great questions and challenge the rules. Chocked full of standalone reproducible worksheets to give young learners of today all the tools they need to become agile and flexible within the workplace. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Conservation: Ocean Water Resources Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2009-09-01 The oceans contain 97% of the Earth's water, cover 71% of its surface, and hold 50-80% of all life on the planet. Our resource explores the importance of conserving this vast area. Design a board game that illustrates the effects of climate change on Earth's oceans. See how the water cycle explains why most of Earth's salt water is found in the oceans. Find out how climate change will affect ocean currents, resulting in a dramatic change to the farming and fishing industries. Explain how an increase in human population can cause some salt lakes to shrink. Conduct a case study on a container ship that lost several containers in a storm in the north Pacific Ocean. Make your own salt water to represent Earth's oceans and experience what it would be like to visit them. Get tips on what we can do to help protect ocean water. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Twelfth Night - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12 Lisa Renaud, 2023-03-03 Follow the hilarious outcomes of twists and turns created by mistaken identity. This resource makes the book more approachable and easier to comprehend. Identify statements about Sir Toby and Sir Andrew’s discussion as true or false. Put yourself in the character’s mind to interpret Olivia’s motivations behind her actions. Imagine how you would survive a shipwreck, just like Viola and Sebastian. Predict the outcome of events in the upcoming scenes. Write a love poem using inspiration from the play. Create flashy headlines for scandals portrayed in different scenes throughout the play. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: Twelfth Night is a comedic story of mistaken identity and unrequited love. Viola is a single woman left alone after surviving a shipwreck. She has lost her twin brother in the same wreck and now must navigate a new country on her own. She decides to disguise herself as a man named Cesario to work in a nobleman’s home. While working for Orsino, Viola falls in love with him. But he is in love with Olivia, another woman who recently lost her own brother. Orsino sends Viola to Olivia’s household in attempts to convince her of Orsino’s love. Olivia refuses, instead falling for Viola as Cesario. Things get more complicated when Viola’s brother—Sebastian—turns up alive and well. The twins get mixed up as one another and find themselves in one predicament after another. Things come to a head when both Viola and Sebastian are discovered to be different from the fictional Cesario. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Conservation: Fresh Water Resources Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2009-09-01 Students learn the importance of fresh water and how to conserve this valuable resource. Our resource focuses your attention on protecting and respecting our fresh water. Start by understanding what fresh water is by building a water cycle. Find out how fresh water compares in the bigger picture of Earth's water. Build a greenhouse to see firsthand how climate change can affect fresh water. Take what you know about where to find fresh water, and see how that could all change with climate change. Describe how the water supply in a village could become unfit for drinking in a scenario. Understand that people in other countries don't have access to fresh water like we do. Build a drip irrigation system to help conserve water while gardening. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Properties of Matter Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2007-09-01 Discover what matter is and what it isn't. Our resource breaks down the physical and chemical properties of matter to make it more accessible to students. Start off by identifying matter as atoms, particles and molecules. Then, explore the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Determine whether something is transparent, opaque or translucent. List three physical changes and three chemical changes that could happen in the kitchen. Conduct an experiment to see chemical change in action. Describe the steps necessary when separating a mixture. Experiment with photosynthesis, an important chemical change. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on experiments, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) Gr. 5-8 Nat Reed, 2009-02-01 Get the facts about the U.S.-led Operation Desert Storm. From 1990 to 1991, our resource highlights the events that occurred shortly after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Complete a map activity of Iraq. Conduct a research report on the process of extracting oil to establish the motivations behind the invasion of Kuwait. Get to know Saddam Hussein, from his early life to his involvement with the Baath Party, and finally the leader of Iraq. Read about the invasion of Kuwait and how other countries and the UN reacted to this. Learn about Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and how the U.S. sent troops to the Gulf to help protect other nations from Hussein. Show your artistic side by designing a comic strip, poster or diorama showcasing some aspect of the Persian Gulf War. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: The Pigman - Literature Kit Gr. 7-8 Marlies Sargent, 2023-03-03 Understand how actions have consequences, and how to learn from them with this tragic tale of loneliness and unlikely friendship. The comprehension questions included in this resource allows for good discussions. Identify the literary device being used for particular sections of the novel. Describe Mr. Pignati from John’s perspective. Imagine alternatives to John and his dad’s relationship, if his dad had a less stressful job. Find synonyms to key vocabulary words found in the novel. Write a diary entry from the point of view of Mr. Pignati. Create an accurate timeline of events that take place throughout the story. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: The Pigman is a story about two teens who befriend an elderly man and learn a valuable lesson about trust and repercussions. Lorraine and John don’t have many friends. Their home life isn’t ideal, so they spend a lot of time hanging out at the local cemetery. One day, while playing a phone call game, the pair play a prank on Angelo Pignati. The prank doesn’t go as planned, as Mr. Pignati is very lonely and trusting. This leads to an unlikely friendship between the three individuals. At first, Lorraine and John keep up the ruse as they enjoy having a place other than the cemetery to escape to. They enjoy the free items that Mr. Pignati showers on them. Nicknaming him the Pigman for his odd and overwhelming collection of pigs, Lorraine and John begin to truly like the man. One poor decision after another leads to tragedy that ultimately forces Lorraine and John to learn about themselves and how their actions have consequences. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Number & Operations - Task Sheets Gr. PK-2 Nat Reed, 2009-09-01 Number & Operations serve as a stepping stone for young learners to start building their understanding of basic mathematics. Our resource provides task and word problems surrounding real-life scenarios. Count the number of balls in gym class. Use a calculator to practice your adding. Add up all the change you and your friends have altogether. Find out if the number of pails is odd or even. Find the shape that shows the fraction 1/3. Write down all the facts that add up to 9. Counting down, find the number that comes next. Show your work when taking away 6 stuffed animals from your collection. The task sheets provide a leveled approach to learning, starting with prekindergarten and increasing in difficulty to grade 2. Aligned to your State Standards and meeting the concepts addressed by the NCTM standards, reproducible task sheets, drill sheets, review and answer key are included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Carbon Footprint Big Book Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2010-01-01 Students will learn how they can improve the planet with our Carbon Footprint 3-book BUNDLE. Start engaging students in global climate change by personalizing their Own Carbon Footprint. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Next, bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their School's Carbon Footprint. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. Finally, encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their Community's Carbon Footprint. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Each concept is paired with a carbon footprint calculator. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: World Politics Big Book Gr. 5-8 Darcy Frisina, 2008-09-01 Get a global understanding of governments and world leaders with our World Politics 3-book BUNDLE. Start off with a look at twelve of the most interesting World Political Leaders from the past two centuries. Learn about Margaret Thatcher's role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Read about how Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from being an actor and comedian to the President of Ukraine. Then, become a voting expert with a clear understanding of World Electoral Processes. Explore the concept of a democratic government and whether it truly represents the people. Hold your own election to decide on a policy for running your classroom. Finally, discover the rise and fall of Capitalism vs. Communism. Recognize that the Cold War was a war between Capitalism and Communism. Get a global view of the world economy by seeing how businesses benefit from world-wide partnerships. Each concept is paired with writing tasks. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Atoms, Molecules & Elements Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2007-09-01 Young scientists will be thrilled to explore the invisible world of atoms, molecules and elements. Our resource makes the periodic table easier to understand. Begin by answering, what are atoms? See how the atomic model is made up of electrons, protons and neutrons. Find out what a molecule is, and how they differ from elements. Then, move on to compounds. Find the elements that make up different compounds. Get comfortable with the periodic table by recognizing each element as part of a group. Examine how patterns in the period table dictate how those elements react with others. Finally, explore the three important kinds of elements: metals, nonmetals and inert gases. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on experiments, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Galaxies & The Universe Gr. 5-8 Charlene Homer, 2007-03-01 From the smallest particles of matter to the biggest star system, our universe is made up of all things that exist in space. Our resource gives you the big picture about space. Start off by exploring the Big Bang and formation of our Milky Way galaxy. Learn how distance is measured in light years, and how far the next closest star is to Earth. Create your own nebula using construction pager, newspaper and water. Build pinhole galaxies to present barred, elliptical, spiral, and irregular galaxies to the class. Find out how much you would weigh on the sun, moon and planets. Solve the mystery of black holes and write your own science fiction story about it. Finally, travel to the most distant objects in our universe—quasars. Aligned to the Next Generation State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on experiments, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Sarah, Plain and Tall - Literature Kit Gr. 3-4 Nat Reed, 2008-04-01 A unique view on a survival story helps students to value the need for companionship. The comprehension quiz works great as a study guide for a final exam. Students begin by imagining the hardships with living as a pioneer on the American prairies. Answer true or false questions about Sarah's letter to Anna and Caleb. Complete sentences from the story with their missing vocabulary words. Do some investigation to learn about mica, something that Sarah says her dune sparkled with. Use events from the story to inspire a tercet poem. Students imagine interviewing Sarah about her experiences. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: A story filled with wisdom, gentle humor and the practical concerns necessary for a satisfying life. This Newbery Medal-winning story is based on the true adventures of a family living on the vast prairie in the early years of the 20th century. The story begins when Anna and Caleb—missing their mother who died—wish for another woman to make their father laugh again. Sarah responds to an ad, stating she will come by train, wearing a yellow bonnet and that she is plain and tall. And into their lives comes Sarah—with her own needful loneliness and searching—to help them create a whole family. But life on the endless prairie can be hard and unforgiving, taking all a person's strength and courage just to survive. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Genesis Begins Again - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6 Lisa Renaud, 2023-06-15 Gain the confidence to love yourself. These ready-made worksheets make it easy to use in a time crunch, allowing more time for students to get started and become engaged. Put events in order as they happen on Genesis’ first day of school. Compare how Genesis and her mother look different. Write a note to your past self with some tips on getting through a hard time. Predict how Yvette and Belinda will treat Genesis now that she is in the talent show. Brainstorm ways kids can stay safe while on the internet. Create a timeline showcasing a brief history of black musicians based on research conducted. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: Genesis Begins Again follows the coming-of-age struggles as teenage girl Genesis learns to love herself amid family troubles. Genesis has a hard time fitting in. She is not happy with the way she looks. All this stems from how her father looks at her. Her father has his own struggles, one of which is paying the rent. This leads to Genesis’ family getting evicted from their house. This has happened before, but this time is different. The family find themselves in a mostly white, upper-class neighborhood. Genesis is enrolled in a much nicer school than she’s used to. She begins to make real friends and discover her aptitude for music. With the encouragement of her teacher, Genesis signs up for the talent show, something she never thought she’d do. When a new eviction notice is posted on their door, Genesis doesn’t know if she’ll be around long enough to see her dreams come true. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Space Travel & Technology Gr. 5-8 Charlene Homer, 2007-03-01 Create a vision of tomorrow with your students today as they imagine being part of the crew of a shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Our resource turns your students into the scientists, engineers, astronauts, and leaders who will continue the vision for space exploration. Become an astronaut as you learn about the different jobs on a shuttle mission. Learn about telescopes and how they are used to look into space. Blast off into space with manned and unmanned spacecrafts. Plan your trip to Mars by collecting items you would need for your 2.5 year mission. Build your own rover to explore another planet. Then it's off to the moon and learning about the Apollo 11 mission. Learn about life aboard the ISS, and predict how different toys would work in space. Finally, look ahead at the future of space exploration and find out is commercial travel in space is really possible. Aligned to the Next Generation State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on experiments, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2009-12-01 Engage students in global climate change by personalizing their own carbon footprint. Our resource introduces students to the effects of global climate change and its human-related causes. Start with a detailed look at the greenhouse effect. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Break down the steps involved with farm to table and how each step adds to the carbon footprint. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Understand that your carbon footprint doesn't lessen after throwing things out. Look at the bigger picture and calculate how your own carbon footprint fits with the community. Help reduce the carbon footprint by brainstorming ways to make environmentally-friendly rules part of the social contract. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8 George Graybill, 2010-01-01 Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. |
| caterpillar james and the giant peach: El Deafo - Literature Kit Gr. 3-4 Sarah Joubert, 2023-05-24 Learn to love yourself and the things that make you different. The review worksheets allow for analysis of theme, main idea and vocabulary. Practice lip-reading in pairs and write about your experience. Explain the body language and facial expressions of Cece and Laura during their interaction. Imagine whether Cece would regret not taking the sign language class seriously. Determine events that took place during Mike and Cece’s experiment. Conduct research on closed captioning or subtitles, and determine whether it would have helped Cece in her attempts to watch TV. Choose a scene and dissect it using visual, context and gestural clues. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: El Deafo is the alter ego of fun-loving Cece Bell, whose life gets turned upside down when she suffers from a life-threatening illness at four years old. Luckily, Cece survives her ordeal, but is left deaf as a result. Growing up and starting school becomes difficult for Cece, as she struggles with her disadvantage and noticeable differences from the other kids. As she makes her way grade by grade, Cece has a hard time making friends. All she wants is someone to treat her the same as everyone else. Cece comes into her own in fifth grade. She has made a friend, is becoming more comfortable with her hearing aid, and finds that she has something no one else does—superpowers! The graphic novel follows the real-life childhood of author Cece Bell as she narrates the struggles she faced and overcame. |
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