Make Way For Ducklings
Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
It's not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to bring up their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston's Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot--no foxes or turtles in sight, plenty of peanuts from pleasant passers-by, and the benevolent instincts of a kindly police officer to boot. Young readers will love the mother duck's proud, loving protection of her wee webbed ones, and those with fond memories of Boston will enjoy familiar locales, from Beacon Hill to Louisburg Square, and over the Charles River--often from a duck's-eye view. Robert McCloskey, creator of Blueberries for Sal, never fails to elicit happy story-time giggles from youngsters, and his soft, brown-toned, Caldecott-winning illustrations make this gentle world come alive. (Ages 3 to 8) (amazon.com review)
Why are we featuring this book?
Make Way For Ducklings is a book featured in Five in a Row, a literature-based unit study curriculum. Many families use FIAR for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. Below you will find information about the author and illustrator, story summaries, and links to lesson plans and websites that are great go-alongs for Make Way For Ducklings. Please note that these resources are meant to complement, not replace, the Five in a Row units. The Five in a Row volumes are inexpensive and well worth the investment.
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The author is also the illustrator.
Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for Make Way For Ducklings
Make Way for Ducklings
Geography - Economics Lessons Grade 1 (Y)
Interview with Robert McCloskey
Horn Book Radio Review (Y, A)
Make Way for Ducklings Activities and Lessons
From Teacher View. Grade 2 (Y)
Numeracy Lesson with Environmental Theme
The ducks were presented with a number of obstacles that they overcame to survive. This story provides several "duck problems" that the students can use their mathematics skills to solve. (Y)
Duckling Puppet
Sneak in simple subtraction with this friendly five-finger puppet. Grade 1. (Y)
Vocabulary and Spelling List
From Open Court Reading. (Y)
Make Way for Ducklings - lapbook
Example (Y)
Make Way for Ducklings Lapbook
Example (Y)
Make Way for Ducklings Bingo
Includes extended lesson for Animal Parenting (Y)
Make Way for Ducklings resources
Vocabulary cards, bingo, illustrate the poem "Behold the Duck", duck parts printout, Massachusetts resources and more. (Y)
"Ducklings" Lesson Ideas
From Technospudprojects.com (Y)
Writing Fiction: Big Dreams, Tall Ambitions
A lesson in writing Narrative Fiction. (Grades 3-5) (Y)
Go-alongs about
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)
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)
Blank map of United States - (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)
d-maps.com - d-maps.com contains over 5000 maps, each one available in GIF, PDF, CDR, AI, SVG and WMF. There is no cost for any of the maps. (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)
Fun Brain: Universe - Online games for space, weather, periodic tables and maps. Grades K-8 (Y, M)
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. Research for pictures, articles, maps, and more on our top subjects: Animals, History/Culture, Maps/Geography, Places, Science/Nature, and Art/Photo's. (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)
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)
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)
USA Blank map - (Y, M, O, T)
Water Resources Outreach Program - "Water-resources topics of all completed posters are drawn in a cartoon format by the same cartoonist. Posters are available in color or black and white. The back sides of the color poster JPEG files contain educational activities: one version for children in grades 3-5 and the other with activities for children in grades 6-8. The black-and-white posters are intended for coloring by children in grades K-5. (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 Ducks
Ducklings Lesson Plans - From TeacherVision.com (Y)
