New Releases by Jo Ellen Moore

Posters and reproducible pages to help children become familiar with the function of maps and how to find locations on a map or globe.

A unit with basic geographic information on Australia, plus an overview of the peoples, plants, and animals of the island continent.

Posters and reproducible pages to help children become familiar with the various shapes and sizes in which landforms and bodies of water appear on our planet.

This all-in-one resource helps you and your young students create stories about Children from Many Lands. Stories include: Ice Fishing in Alaska, Name Day (Greece), Miyeko''s Morning (Japan), Fiesta! (Mexico). A Village Marketplace (Nigeria), Sal, the Soccer Star (Italy), A Desert Family (Sahara Desert). The full-page, big-book (11" x 17") format allows you to read and show each story to the entire class, while the reproducible mini-books on each topic allow each student to follow along individually, and to take the informative story home with them. Fun, accurate line art illustrations for all stories may be used for display, as part of an activity center, or for coloring assignments. All 64 pages perforated for easy removal.

This cross-curricular unit explores the many peoples who discovered America and asks "Who is discovering America today?" Ancient legends of travel to the New World are presented and explored, as is archeological evidence of the earliest peoples to cross the Ice Age land bridge from Asia to North America. The story of Leif Ericsson is recounted, as is that of Christopher Columbus. Projects involve literature, science facts, creative writing, research skills, art, and math. Reproducibles include illustrated pages for a Little Book About Christopher Columbus, a Columbus time line, the Vikings, drawing steps for early ships, pop-up books, a Venn Diagram, connect the dots, word search, crossword puzzle, math challenges, and more. There are other pages with forms for writing a letter to Queen Isabella, interviewing a famous explorer (role playing), taking a poll, making a mural, and creating a short report. Topics also addressed include archeology, the First Americans, other European explorers, immigrants, and alternative points of view. Features complete, step-by-step instructions for all projects. Numerous illustrations throughout. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.

This comprehensive teacher resource book provides easy-to-teach, easy-to-follow lessons covering art clements: color, line and shape, pattern and design, texture. For whole class, small groups, and individuals. Literature and fine art references.

Resource books providing directions, patterns, forms and writing ideas to create book.

Each book presents lesson plans incorporating examples of children''s literature in the study of various science topics. Pages are perforated for removal and photocopying.

Who doesn''t love dinosaurs?! In this 48-page unit, dinosaurs come alive to teach cross-curricular lessons in math, science, language, art and critical thinking. Three activities are outlined for each of four favorite books about dinosaurs, such as Patrick''s Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick and The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole. There are four pages of reproducible dinosaur cards. The 16 cards each depict a different prehistoric animal in accurate line art. They can be used in several activities, including How Many Syllables Do You Hear? Sentences that Describe, and Dinosaur Concentration. Additional topics include Other Prehistoric Animals, such as the Woolly Mammoth and the Saber-Toothed Tiger, Fossils, and theories about the extinction of dinosaurs. Hands on science and art lessons include Make Fossil Bones, using a plaster of Paris cast, and Three-Dimensional Dinosaurs, which can be made from clay, aluminum foil or pipe cleaners. There are dinosaur riddles, a crossword puzzle, activity centers, a bulletin board, patterns for counting and a two-sided, full-color pull-out poster that shows the relative size of various dinosaurs on one side and the skeletons of prehistoric animals on the other. There is a page of teaching suggestions for the poster, a bibliography, and complete, step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are perforated for easy removal. Who would have thought you could fit so much about dinosaurs into just one book!

Posters and reproducible pages to help children become familiar with the various shapes and sizes in which landforms and bodies of water appear on our planet.

Our most popular, best-selling series -- recently updated and expanded! Make these titles the cornerstone of your classroom''s writing program. Step-by-step directions for book-making projects and reproducible forms and patterns included. big books for reading instruction or student stories. Three titles, each with 20 big 11" x 17" patterns for shape books, wheel books, accordion books, and more. Literature references, story starters, and little stories for reading instruction.

These creatures of the deep wide seas take children on a cruise of discovery. In this revealing unit, your students will study a whale''s life cycle, migration patterns, evolutionary development, environmental status, and much more. There are complete, step-by-step instructions and reproducible support materials for such projects as: sea mammal word search, crossword puzzle, dot-to-dot, whale bulletin boards, a whale play, and much more. Topics include: A Whale Is Not a Fish, Echolocation, Migration of the Gray Whale (Map and Skit), Toothed or Baleen?, The Skeleton of a Whale, Whale Haiku, Draw a Whale, among others. Illustrated throughout with dramatic, accurate, line art of whales of all kinds. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.

Real and make-believe bears teach the basic skills.You get: Science information, Literature links, Reproducible activity sheets, Center activities and Bulletin board plans

32 bulletin board ideas on themes of the circus, dragons/knights, under the sea, and robots.

Make shape books with creatures and critters from alligator to "zorilla". Provides handwriting practice, motivates creative writing.

24 8 1/2" x 11" full-color cards, printed on card stock. Each card has a beautifully illustrated, full-color picture on one side and science information on the other side. Large type and simply written text encourage students to read. Use these cards to teach science concepts, as center activities, or on bulletin boards. Includes two pages of additional teacher information.

Contains several graphing activities for children in 2nd and 3rd grade.

A step-by-step guide for teaching students to write couplets, chinquains, haiku, and limericks. Teachers get everything needed including reproducible instructions and illustrated writing forms. A bibliography of poetry books, a list of poetry terms and ideas for sharing ideas are included.