Katy and the Big Snow
Katy, a brave and untiring tractor, who pushes a bulldozer in the summer and a snowplow in the winter, makes it possible for the townspeople to do their jobs.
Author page
Other books by Virginia Burton
Illustrator Page
The author is also the illustrator.
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Online Units and Resources for Katy and the Big Snow
Katy and the Big Snow
This supplemental unit was developed as a part of the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project. Students will create maps, explore mapping skills, learn about the inter-relatedness of community services, create a book of their own and use a Learning Log. (Y)
Literature resources for younger children
A large number of FIAR resource for specific books as well as general resources that can be used with any literature. Includes Elements of a Story Bookmark, World Traveler Passport, Classic Story Timeline, President Chart & President Disks and more. Scroll down for the links to the downloads. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader. (Y,M)
Katy and the Big Snow Lapbook Example
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Family Literacy Lesson Plans
Book-Centered Integrated Lesson Plans from Penn State. (Y)
Build a Snowplow
A unique idea using Legos.Students will familiarize themselves with essential building strategies and learn essential LEGO building strategies utilizing the motor and moveable parts. (Y)
Peek 2003 First Grade Curriculum
1. Drop test/sturdy car. 2. Introduction to Motors 3. Tractor 4. Zuckerman's Tractor 5. Snowplow
Grade 1. (Y)
Go-alongs about Maps
Action Quiz » Geography - Do this free geography quiz and let’s see how much you know about geography. Can you tell a country or city by a marking on a map of Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, Europe, the USA or the World? And how well do you know country shapes? Or capital cities? Other geography themes include license plates, flags, left driving countries, airlines and currencies. Each of these fun and free geo quizzes contain plenty of questions, so you can play this geography game again and again. Besides, your play against other computer opponents every time, so each geo quiz you take is a new challenge. Will you make it to the geography quiz final and win? (Y, M, O, T)
Africa's geography - From Zoom School, mostly includes maps and facts (lots of maps with and without labels) (Y O M)
All About Coloring - Tons of FREE coloring pages to enhance your unit studies or literature based learning projects. Great resource for maps of the world, states, animals, country and culture themes, community helpers, sports, music and even holidays and religious themes. (Y M)
Animated Atlas - Animated Atlas portrays large chapters of American history quickly by animating maps and geographic features. For school, home and genealogy use. (Y, M, O, T)
Atlapedia - Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. (Y, M, O, T)
Atlapedia Online - Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world (Y, M, O, T)
Australia Themed Coloring Pages - Maps, famous sites, animals and the Australian flag. (Y, M, O, T)
Color Landform Atlas of the US - Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state. (Y, M, O, T)
Eat Your State! - Creating a land resource map using food (Y)
Enchanted Learning Geography - Dozens of map and geography resources for elementary students. (Y)
Fill in the 50 States - Can you place all 50 states on a blank US map without outlines with no errors? I couldn't!
(Y, M, O, T)
Geosense - Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player (Y, M, O, T)
Google Earth - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. (Y, M, O, T)
Historic Map Collection - This collection of maps made available online by the Library of Congress can complement history studies or may be just plain fun. I quickly found a 150 year old map of my city by browsing the maps geographically. The zoom controls and map navigation are not intuitive, but there are instructions on each map page explaining how to pan around the maps. It is fun to compare the old maps to the way development has changed the landscape. It is also easy for students to see the clear importance of important modes of transportation such as rivers and railroads over time. (Y, M, O, T)
Homework Helper - From National Geographic. Search One-Stop Research for pictures, articles, maps, and more on our top subjects: Animals, History/Culture, Maps/Geography, Places, Science/Nature, and Art/Photo's —perfect for reports, presentations, and more!
(Y, M, O, T)
I Like To Learn - Geography - Allows you to not only learn about the countries and capitals of the world, but also the mountains and bodies of water. (Y, M, O, T)
Lizard Point Geoquiz - Test your Geography Knowledge
Click on an area of the map to select a quiz (Y, M, O, T)
Louisiana Coast Kid's Corner - Coloring Books, See the Wetlands, Animal Quiz, Animal Identification, Bird Identification, Hurricane Preparation Games, Wetland Education Through Maps and Aerial Photography. (Y M)
Louisiana Geography Map - (Y, M, O, T)
Map of Arizona State Parks - (Y, M, O, T)
Map Reading - Lesson plan for younger students (Y)
MapMachine - Satellite, street maps and more in our online atlas (Y, M, O, T)
Maps of the World and United States - (Y, M, O, T)
National Geographic Maps Online - Dynamic maps, atlas maps, and flags and facts. (Y, M, O, T)
Online maps - Several online geography resources are available at geography.com. (Y, M, O, T)
Outline Maps - Houghton-Mifflin textbook publishing company has made available a large selection of outline maps in PDF. The maps are available for personal or classroom use. There are different maps available for each continent and may include choices of physical terrain, political boundaries, climate, capitals, and more. Many have options for with or without labels. (Y, M, O, T)
Owl & Mouse Educational Software - Free maps and map puzzles to learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Free interactive maps and map puzzles to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments. Maps are vital to our understanding geography and the world we live in. Interactive and fun, Maps that Teach help students learn basic geography. (Y, M, O, T)
Play-doh map activity - Make a play-doh map of your state (Y)
Quick Maps of the World - Small GIF maps of the countries of the world are added to this site, one at a time, in order of demand.
(Y, M, O, T)
Regions of the United States - (Y)
Seterra - Learn Geography - Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises! Freeware download.
(Y, M, O, T)
The Great Globe Gallery on the World Wide Web - "Get the whole world in your hands with globes
that speak your language." (Y, M, O, T)
The Growth and Distribution of American Cities:1790 to 2000 - Maps (PDF format) (Y, M, O, T)
tlsbooks.com - free geography worksheets - Free geography worksheets for preschool through 5th grade. (Y)
US States - Facts, map and state symbols for the 50 states, with links to related quizzes and printouts. (Y, M, O, T)
World Atlas - World atlas has flags of all countries, states and territories as well as a list of continents, countries, dependencies, islands, territories, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, mountains, and the highest, lowest, biggest, smallest, tallest, deepest, oldest, youngest, richest, poorest places on the planet. Free maps test are available for teachers and if you are looking for an outline map that isn't listed, you can email them and they will send it to you by email. They offer a daily geography quiz (with a cash prize) which starts with one question and additional clues are added each day until someone wins. Once there is a winner a new quiz is posted the next day.
(Y, M, O, T)
Xpeditions Atlas - From National Geographic. Maps made for printing and copying (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Weather
A Guide to Snowflakes - (Y, M, O, T)
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection - A digital library providing a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original glass slide photographs of snow crystals. (Y, M, O, T)
Bibliography of Materials to AccompanySnowflake Bentley - (Y)
EasyFunSchool Weather Unit - Activity, ideas, resources, and many links to weather websites (Y, M, O, T)
Google Earth - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. (Y, M, O, T)
Guide to Snowflake Bentley - pdf file from Weston Wood productions. grades 1-3 and 4-5 (Y)
Make a snowflake - "Make an amazing snowflake from real crystal (borax). This is a beautiful project (and also demonstrates some basic principles of chemistry)."
(Y,M)
Making paper Snowflake - (Y)
Natural Disasters - 4th and 5th Grade (Y,M)
Savage Seas - Use a wave simulator and explore tsunamis, freak wanes, and trade winds (Y,M)
Snow Flakes - hexagonal symmetry - (Y, M, O, T)
SnowCrystals.com - Every winter I am again amazed at snowflakes. This intriguing site from a physics professor at Caltech is full of images of beautifully intricate designs found in snow and gives you insight into the science behind them. Pick up some snowflake wallpaper for your computer while you are there. (Y, M, O, T)
Weather watch - in-depth teaching resources from Scholastic.com (Y, M, O, T)
Weather Wiz Kids® - Hi everybody! I’m Meteorologist Crystal Wicker . I'm a television meteorologist for the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It’s also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents that gives them the right tools they need to explain the different types of weather to children. (Y)
Go-alongs about Snow
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection - A digital library providing a high-quality collection of stunning, un-retouched images of Wilson A. Bentley’s original glass slide photographs of snow crystals. (Y, M, O, T)
Make a snowflake - "Make an amazing snowflake from real crystal (borax). This is a beautiful project (and also demonstrates some basic principles of chemistry)."
(Y,M)
Snow Crystals.com - Your online guide to snowflakes, snow crystals, and other ice phenomena ... (Y, M, O, T)
SnowCrystals.com - Every winter I am again amazed at snowflakes. This intriguing site from a physics professor at Caltech is full of images of beautifully intricate designs found in snow and gives you insight into the science behind them. Pick up some snowflake wallpaper for your computer while you are there. (Y, M, O, T)